INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Borouge okays $656m dividend

The company said dividend reflects its resilience

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
  • Lebanon's hijacked sovereignty must be restored after an election denied the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah a parliamentary majority, said Christian...

    "No one... should be able to transport missiles from one place to another without the permission and knowledge of the military," the 69-year-old added, referring to Hezbollah

    Hezbollah, whose arsenal outguns the army's, is described by its supporters as a bulwark against enemy Israel

  • A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces as clashes erupted during an army raid on Saturday in Jenin...

    "A 17-year-old boy was killed and an 18-year-old was critically wounded by the Israeli occupation's bullets during its aggression on Jenin," the ministry said in a statement.

    The official Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the teenager as Amjad al-Fayed

  • The Greek foreign ministry issued "an immediate and strong-worded protest" to the Turkish ambassador in Athens.

    The Greek foreign ministry issued "an immediate and strong-worded protest" to the Turkish ambassador in Athens

    It said the Turkish fighter jets "illegally entered our national airspace and approached Alexandroupolis within a distance of just 2.5 nautical miles".

  • Qatar, Amir said, plans to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Germany by 2024.

    Qatar, Amir said, plans to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Germany by 2024.

    He expressed hope there will be a nuclear agreement with Iran, and Qatar was ready to help

  • Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Friday appointed a loyalist law professor to head a committee charged with writing a constitution...

    Saied has vowed to scrap the country's 2014 constitution and draft a replacement to be put to referendum in July

    Saied has also created three other committees to focus on socio-economic issues, the judiciary and on national dialogue

  • Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed president Putin of "the end of the operation and the complete liberation of the...

    Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed president Putin of "the end of the operation and the liberation of the city of Mariupol."

    On May 20, the last group of 531 Azov regiment of Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol surrendered to Russian army, Russian official has confirmed

  • State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "We urge those elected and the country's political leaders to heed the Lebanese people's...

    Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite militant movement, with its allies lost a parliamentary majority in Sunday's vote as independents made a surprise breakthrough.

    The US statement saluted the holding of elections on time but voiced concerns about "allegations of vote buying, clientelism and reports of intimidation."

  • Syrian authorities on Friday rejected plans by Turkey to return one million Syrian refugees to a "safe zone" on the...

    Erdogan in early May said Ankara was aiming to encourage1 million Syrian refugees to return to their country by building them housing and local infrastructure.

    Turkey is today home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees, who fled after a civil war broke out in 2011 in Turkey's southern neighbour.

  • The swamps, nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are one of the world's largest inland deltas and were declared...

    The UN classifies Iraq "as the fifth most vulnerable country in the world" to climate change, having already witnessed record low rainfall and high temperatures in recent years.

    An official said that tourists have returned, but one of the main visible sources of pollution in the area are visitors who throw away their "plastic waste".

  • Earlier this week Tehran academic Saeed Madani Ghahfarokhi was arrested on suspicion of "maintaining links abroad and carrying out activities...

    One of the accused, Kevyan Samimi, is a veteran dissident who served jail time both before and after the Islamic revolution of 1979.

    State news agency IRNA said women's rights and labor activist Narges Mansouri was also arrested again.