INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Mashreq Q1 profit rises

Total revenue increased 10% year-on-year.

TECOM profit climbs

High occupancy across assets boosts earnings.

Emirates Stallions Q1 revenue up 11%

The rise helped by strong demand in real estate

ADNOC Distribution 2025 dividend $700m

The company had reported EBITDA of $1.17 bn in 2025.

Empower okays $119.1m H2 2025 dividend

The dividend is equivalent to 43.75% of paid-up capital.
  • Saudi Arabia has granted visas to Iranian diplomats as part of a routine procedure for representatives of a member state...

    Three diplomates from Iran receives Saudi visa for OIC posts in Jeddah

    Iran and Saudi Arabia held several rounds of talks since April to improve diplomatic relationships

  • The poll was meant to take place just over a year after a landmark east-west ceasefire. The delay will be...

    Libya’s electoral board has suggested pushing the vote back by a month to January 24

    However, given political animosity between different stakeholders, agreeing a new date may not be easy

  • Aboul Ghaith pointed to the dangerous juncture that Libya is going through, and said that everyone should join hands and...

    In a statement, Aboul Gheit urged the concerned parties to adopt dialogue as the only means to resolve the dispute

    Gheit stressed on the importance of a national consensus on the legal and procedural rules for the elections

  • During the meeting, the Canadian ambassador was briefed about the initiatives launched by the UAE to strengthen women's rights.

    The meeting discussed the UAE's experience in empowering women since the country was established and the key role women played to support the country

    Grossman emphasized Canada’s keenness to boost cooperation in women’s empowerment and take advantage of the country’s experience in Gender balance

  • The 40-year-old suspect was detained in Zoetermeer, 16 kilometres (10 miles) from the Hague, about eight hours after the shooting...

    The 40-year-old suspect was detained in Zoetermeer, 16 kilometres (10 miles) from the Hague, about eight hours after the shooting at 6am (0500 GMT)

    The incident comes a day after a bomb blast struck a World War I commemoration attended by foreign diplomats in the Saudi city of Jeddah

  • Louai al-Yasseri resigned from his leadership in Najaf, in central Iraq, a day after the governor of Nasiriyah province in...

    Louai al-Yasseri resigned from his leadership in Najaf, a day after the governor of Nasiriyah province in the south quit following the violent suppression of protests

    Their departures underline the challenges facing war-scarred Iraq and how little has changed despite protests that swept Baghdad and the South two years ago

  • The authorities overseeing Libya's first presidential election said earlier this week holding it on Friday as scheduled would be "impossible"....

    Speculation of a delay had been mounting for weeks, with bitter disputes over the vote's legal basis

    Disputes also raged over the powers the winner would have, and the candidacies of several divisive figures

  • The emergency funding was set up to help nations that have been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

    The IMF in April 2020 eased access to such aid, including raising the level of funding that countries could obtain

    The programs have already been extended twice, in September 2020 and again in March this year

  • Officials have said the deal would become obsolete within weeks if Iran continued to step up its nuclear activities as...

    Negotiations restarted in November after a five-month hiatus to try to restore the deal, which was to offer Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.

    Diplomats from parties to the deal -- China, Britain, France, Germany and Russia -- are in talks in Vienna with Iran and the US, with the two sides refusing direct contact.

  • The World Bank on Thursday said it agreed with its partners to repurpose $37 million in funds to help Lebanon's...

    The "exceptional" financing, which is valid only for the 2021-2022 academic year, came at the request of Lebanon's government, the bank said.

    Public school teachers who were already underpaid before the onset of the economic crisis two years ago have since been pushed deeper into poverty.