INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

DEWA posts record H1 profit

Revenue reaches record $4.04 billion.

Tabreed H1 revenue $308m

Blurb: Profit reaches $52 million in H1

ADNOC L&S to expand fleet

It will acquire 11 carriers for $1.3bn.

Empower profit climbs 16%

Dubai district cooling demand lifts earnings

Burjeel profit nearly doubles

Healthcare demand drives stronger earnings.
  • Shanghai, China -- Serving craft beer, playing mahjong, stacking shelves and boxing, the dozens of humanoid robots at Shanghai's World...

    The Chinese government has poured support into robotics, an area in which some experts think China might already have the upper hand over the United States.

    Tech giant Baidu on Saturday announced a new generation of technology for its "digital humans" -- AI agents modelled on real people.

  • Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza on March 2 after ceasefire talks broke down. In late May, it began...

    There was no immediate official response from the UN or non-governmental aid agencies operating in Gaza.

    And privately skeptical humanitarian sources said they were waiting to see the results on the ground of the Israeli announcement.

  • Geneva, Switzerland -- The world urgently needs to find a global approach on regulating artificial intelligence, the United Nations' top...

    Doreen Bogdan-Martin, head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU), said regulation was key as concerns rise over fast-moving technology.

    Bogdan-Martin, the first woman to serve as ITU secretary-general in the organization's nearly 160-year history, also stressed the need to get more women into the digital space.

  • Paris, France - France's foreign minister has called the CEO of Spanish airline Vueling to demand an "explanation" after dozens...

    During an incident on Wednesday, the Spanish airline said it had asked the adolescents to leave the plane in the Spanish city of Valencia due to their "disruptive behaviour."

    But parents condemned what some described as an "antisemitic act", and alleging the teenagers were forced off the plane after one of them had sung a song in Hebrew

  • The humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory has gravely deteriorated in recent days, with international NGOs warning of soaring malnutrition...

    "Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X

    An Israeli official told AFP on Friday that aid drops in Gaza would resume soon, adding they would be conducted by the United Arab Emirates and Jordan

  • Syrian diplomatic source said Saturday that a US-mediated meeting with Israeli officials in Paris this week sought to "contain the...

    Israel launched strikes this month on Damascus and Druze-majority Sweida province, saying it was acting in support of the religious minority

    On Thursday, US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack had said he held talks with unspecified Syrian and Israeli officials in Paris

  • The US president argued that the Palestinian militant group was not ready to hand over the remaining captives in Gaza...

    An Israeli official meanwhile told AFP air drops of aid would resume soon over the Gaza Strip, where aid groups warned of surging numbers of malnourished children

    After US and Israeli negotiators quit indirect talks with Hamas in Qatar, Trump said that "it was was too bad. Hamas didn't really want to make a deal. I think they want to die."

  • Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli military operations killed at least 23 people on Friday across the Palestinian territory, with...

    Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that five people were killed in a strike on Gaza City that hit a school building sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war

    Bassal said five others were killed when an Israeli strike hit a tent used by displaced Palestinians also in Gaza City, in the territory's north

  • "The negative statements of the US envoy Witkoff run completely counter to the context in which the last negotiations were...

    Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire have reached an impasse, more than two weeks after they began.

    Naim accused Witkoff of backtracking, saying the US envoy had considered the discussions "positive" only a few days ago.

  • London, United Kingdom -- New UK age verification measures to prevent children accessing harmful online content came into force on...

    Around 6,000 pornography sites have agreed to implement the curbs, according to Melanie Dawes, chief executive of British regulator Ofcom.

    Around 500,000 youngsters aged eight to 14 encountered pornography online last month, according to Ofcom.