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Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.

BYD Q3 profit down 33%

This was a 33% year-on-year decrease.
  • The U3 nanosatellite was designed and developed at DEWA’s R&D Centre

    The satellite will be launched by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex (SLC-40) in Florida, USA.

    MD & CEO of DEWA Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer will attend the launch along with officials from DEWA, SpaceX, and NanoAvionics.

  • On 12th October 2021, the European Commission issued its first-ever NextGenerationEU green bond

    The program is a temporary recovery instrument to help Europe repair the immediate economic and social damage brought about by COVID-19.

    Since June 2021, the European Commission has rolled out five issuances and raised around €71 billion in long-term EU-Bonds, and short-term EU-Bills

  • Hundreds of teachers on Thursday rallied in several Iranian cities to denounce the slow implementation of salary and pension reforms,...

    In Gilan province on the Caspian Sea coast, around 150 teachers marched in the city of Rasht, while another 70 did so in Lahijan, the state broadcaster reported.

    The protesters are demanding that the government move more quickly on a planned grading system for teachers based on experience and performance.

  • Tunisia's  Ennahdha party has reiterated calls for demonstrations on Friday marking the anniversary of the country's revolution, defying tightened coronavirus...

    Ennahdha is the biggest party in a parliament that was suspended by President Kais Saied in July 2021, and has staged a string of protests against the premier.

    The party had last week called for rallies on Friday to mark the 2011 fall of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a revolt that sparked copycat uprisings in several Arab countries.

  • Anwar Raslan, 58, was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus,...

    Prosecutors had accused him of overseeing the murder of 58 people and the torture of 4,000 others at the center, but not all of the deaths could be proven.

    Presiding judge Anne Kerber said the Syrian regime had resorted to "violence" and "the heavy use of munitions" to suppress protests that erupted in March 2011.

  • The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) has stressed on the significance of the Palestinian cause and flayed the attempts...

    The next general assembly of FANA will be held in Abu Dhabi on November 15-17 this year, coinciding with the Global Media Congress.

    News agencies of Jordan, UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iraq, Mauritania, Yemen, Qatar, Tunisia, Palestine and Libya attended.

  • Jordan is the second-most water scarce country in the world, according to Unicef.

    The project is aimed to be able to provide "sufficient and sustainable" desalinated water

    It will produce an estimated 300 million cubic meters of water annually to cover Jordan’s needs

  • The tracks have been abandoned to birds and stray dogs at the last Turkish train stop before the Armenian border,...

    The first direct contacts in years between the rivals' envoys will take place in Moscow on Friday

    For the economically starved locals of the Turkish frontier town of Akyaka, these talks could not have come soon enough

  • According to Shin Bet domestic security agency, Iranian "espionage network" uses Facebook to recruit Israeli women.

    Iranian agents recruited Israeli women for various missions including covertly photographing US embassy, says Tel Aviv

    Some Israeli citizens agreed to give paid service to the agent "Rambod Namdar", who introduced himself as an Iranian Jew

  • Staffan de Mistura, a veteran Italian, diplomat began his first visit to the region and landed in Rabat.

    The UN envoy arrived in Rabat on Wednesday, the first stop of a tour that will take him to Morocco and its rival Algeria

    He will hear views on making progress towards the resumption of the political process in the region

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