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Empower okays $119.1m H2 2025 dividend

The dividend is equivalent to 43.75% of paid-up capital.

Alujain widens 2025 loss

The increase in loss is due to impairment charges, weaker prices.

Masar 2025 net profit $262m

Higher land plot sales boost revenue and operating income.

Tasnee’s 2025 losses deepen

The petrochemicals' company's revenue also fell 17.7 percent.

DP World 2025 revenue $24.4bn

The profit for the year up 32.2% to reach $1.96bn.
  • Suspected gas explosion rocks town in northern China

    Footage online circulated by state media showed a huge explosion that sent plumes of smoke and fire across a busy...

    The blast took place around 7:55 am, CCTV said, in a residential area in the village of Xiaozhanggezhuang, Yanjiao, in Sanhe City

    The injured have been taken to the hospital, and the current situation of casualties is unknown," local media said

  • 230,000 children, new mothers risk dying of hunger in Sudan: NGO

    The bombing and destruction of fields and factories have plunged Sudan into "one of the worst" nutrition situations in the...

    Nearly 11 months of fighting between the forces of two rival generals has killed thousands and displaced eight million people in the country.

    The UN World Food Program sounded the alarm on Sudan this month, warning the war risked triggering the world's largest hunger crisis.

  • Israel claims to have hit 4,500 Hizbollah targets in five months

    Jerusalem--The Israeli army said Tuesday it hit about 4,500 Hizbollah targets in Lebanon and Syria over the past five months,...

    The Israeli army said the targets were hit from the air and from the ground and included "weapons storage facilities, military structures"

    The statement came after a Lebanese security source said Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon killed one person earlier on Tuesday

  • GCC sets pace for global decarbonization efforts

    The region is in decarbonizing the built environment, with a focus on sustainable urban planning, energy-efficient buildings, and renewable energy...

    The region is in decarbonizing the built environment, with a focus on sustainable urban planning, energy-efficient buildings, and renewable energy integration.

    Adopting smart city concepts and green building certifications improves life quality, with future trends focusing on energy monitoring and green finance.

  • Morocco dispatches aid to Gaza through Israeli airport

    A diplomatic source said the food aid has arrived at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv before being transferred to...

    Aid trucks have generally entered the Gaza Strip via Egypt since Israel's war on Gaza

    The United Nations has repeatedly warned of looming famine in the Gaza Strip

  • Israeli forces kill Jordanian in West Bank, says Palestinian ministry

    A Jordanian citizen has died after being shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank, Palestinian authorities said, with the...

    The Israeli military said Hussein was suspected of being an accomplice of a Palestinian fighter Muhammad Jabar.

    Jabar was preparing to carry out a suicide attack in Israel, according to the military.

  • Qatar says Israel and Hamas are ‘not near a deal’ on Gaza truce

    "We are not near a deal, meaning that we are not seeing both sides converging on language that can resolve...

    All parties were "continuing to work in the negotiations to reach a deal hopefully within the confines of Ramadan", Ansari told a news conference.

    Qatar previously mediated a one-week break in fighting in late November that led to the release of scores of Israeli and foreign hostages.

  • Hizbollah says launched over 100 rockets at Israeli positions

    Hamas ally Hizbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted in October, but several Israeli...

    On Monday, Israeli air strikes near Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek killed one person, in the second raid on the Hizbollah stronghold since cross-border hostilities began

    The Israeli military confirmed its jets had hit two sites belonging to "Hizbollah's aerial forces" in retaliation for strikes on the occupied Golan Heights over several days

  • US hits targets in Yemen as Houthis vow to step up attacks

    The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on the Pinocchio in a statement early Tuesday, maintaining the missile strike "was...

    CENTCOM said that the strikes were carried out after the Houthis fired two missiles

    Houthis said the attacks would be "in support of the oppressed Palestinian people"

  • Indian troops begin Maldives pullout after quit order

    Following talks with New Delhi, the two sides had agreed to complete a withdrawal of 89 Indian troops and their...

    The Mihaaru newspaper reported that 25 Indian troops deployed in the southernmost atoll of Addu had left the archipelago ahead of March 10

    President Mohamed Muizzu came to power in September on a pledge to kick out Indian security personnel deployed in the Maldives