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UAB net profit up by 50% for H1

Total assets increase by 11 percent.

TSMC Q2 profit up 60%

TSMC is the world's largest contract maker of chips.

ADNOC shifts OMV stake to XRG

XRG is ADNOC's wholly-owned international investment company.

SIB H1 net profit $189m

The bank's total assets increased by $1.49 billion.

TSMC’s H1 revenue up 40 percent

Robust demand for AI technology behind the surge.
  • Smoke billows from the site of Israeli airstrikes on a neighborhood in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. (AFP)

    Updates: Israel slaps ban on United Nations and kills more than 150 in Lebanon and Gaza

    Shunning international pressure, Israeli parliament passed a bill banning a United Nations aid agency, and also intensified its strikes against...

    UNRWA has provided essential aid, schooling, healthcare and assistance across the Palestinian territories and to Palestinian refugees

    US President Joe Biden said: "We need a [Gaza] ceasefire. We should end this war. It should end, it should end, it should end."

  • Iran FM says ‘received indications’ before Israeli attack

    Araghchi said the "necessary measures" were taken when the attack unfolded, adding that he had been in contact with military...

    "We had received indications since the evening about the possibility of an attack that night," Araghchi told reporters without specifying the nature of the indications

    US news website Axios on Saturday said Israel has "sent message to Iran" ahead of its attack and warned it "against a response"

  • Commuters drive past a billboard bearing pictures of Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian (second left), armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri (left) US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) in Vali-Asr square in Tehran on October 27, 2024. Residents of Tehran awoke and went about their business as planned on October 26 after their sleep was troubled by Israeli strikes that triggered blasts that echoed across the city. (AFP)

    Updates: Iran calls on UN Security Council to condemn Israeli strikes amid fresh peace efforts

    Iran unlikely to escalate situation with Israel, say experts, as UN chief says destruction in Gaza is "shocking". Netanyahu faces...

    Iran sends letter to the UN Council to condemn Israeli "aggression" intelligence chief meet in Doha to discuss ceasefire

    "Repeated efforts to deliver humanitarian supplies essential to survive -- food, medicine and shelter -- continue to be denied by the Israeli authorities..."

  • Updates: Israel targets key military sites in Iran amid escalating tensions in Middle East

    Explosions sounded across Tehran after Israel’s airstrikes on Iranian military sites, raising fears of a broader conflict in the Middle...

    The rapid escalation of violence has heightened fears across the region and beyond of a wider war, pitting Israel against Iran and the allies it dubs the "axis of resistance"

    US National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett said the "targeted strikes on military targets" are " exercise of self-defence and in response to Iran's ballistic missile attack

  • Israel and Hamas near ceasefire talks, spy chief heads to Qatar as truce momentum builds

    Israel’s Mossad chief will travel to Qatar for ceasefire negotiations as Hamas signals readiness to halt fighting, contingent on Israel...

    Previous bids to stop the year-long war have failed, though the United States has voiced hope the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last week could serve as opening for a deal

    A senior Hamas official told AFP that a delegation from the group's Doha-based leadership discussed "ideas and proposals" related to a Gaza truce with Egyptian officials in Cairo

  • Beirut’s suburbs ravaged by Israeli air raids as Blinken urges de-escalation with Iran

    Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold destroyed six buildings in the deadliest assault since the war began, despite U.S....

    In southern Lebanon, Israeli strikes pounded Tyre, leaving swathes of its centre in ruins and sparking a new exodus from the once vibrant coastal city

    Concerns are mounting over tens of thousands of civilians trapped by fighting in Gaza's aid-starved north, where Israel launched a major air and ground assault this month

  • Updates: Israel confirms killing of Hezbollah leader’s successor as Blinken presses for Gaza truce

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, while Israeli airstrikes continued targeting Hezbollah's...

    A member of Hezbollah's decision-making body and a distant relative of Nasrallah, Safieddine was out of contact since Israeli strikes on Beirut weeks ago,

    Grey-bearded and bespectacled, Safieddine bore a striking resemblance to his distant cousin Nasrallah, but was several years his junior, aged in his late 50s or early 60s

  • Is Musk’s million-dollar US voter lottery legal?

    Donald Trump surrogate Elon Musk's offer of a million dollars to one registered voter in a swing state every day...

    "I think it's something that law enforcement should look at."- Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania

    Musk defends his move by saying it is a simple get-out-and-vote effort

  • Wealthy Israelis offer rewards for release of Gaza hostages

    Jerusalem, Undefined - Frustrated with the dwindling prospect of reaching a ceasefire deal in the year-long Gaza war, some Israeli entrepreneurs...

    Former SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum said he received about 100 calls after offering $100,000 in cash or bitcoin for the safe delivery of a living Israeli prisoner from Gaza

    Birnbaum said most of the calls are pranks, threats or curses, but "10 to 20 could be legitimate" and were transferred to Israeli authorities for further verification

  • Smoke rises from areas targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs late on October 21, 2024. (AFP)

    Updates: Israel hits more targets in Lebanon as Blinken travels to Middle East to push for truce

    Lebanon says four people were killed including a child in the latest Israeli strikes as Tehran says the United States...

    Four people including a child had been killed on Monday evening in Israeli strikes near the Lebanon's biggest public hospital

    Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa discuss bilateral cooperation with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Manama