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
  • Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said he will visit Saudi Arabia next month, the Turkish leader's first since...

    Rocky relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia worsened significantly after the brutal killing of Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018.

    But Turkey has been seeking to repair ties with regional rivals including Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the past two years.

  • Two major Israeli media outlets were hacked early Monday with a threatening message that appeared linked to the killing of...

    The website of the English-language Jerusalem Post and the Twitter account of Hebrew-language Maariv were taken over with a picture of a fist firing a shell out of a ring.

    Soleimani, who was often seen wearing a ring with a red stone, was planning imminent action against US personnel in Iraq, the US had said at the time.

  • Kuwait has called on its citizens to avoid travel to several European countries hit hard by the Omicron coronavirus variant....

    The oil-rich Gulf state also urged Kuwaitis already there to return home because of the surge in cases on the continent.

    Europe has in the past few months again become the pandemic's epicentre and is battling an upsurge of cases spurred on by the highly transmissible Omicron strain.

  • Abdalla Hamdok, a former UN official and Prime minister of Sudan, resigned just six weeks after being reinstated.

    Sudan’s PM resigned two months after a coup following another deadly crackdown on pro democratic protestors

    57 people demanding a civilian government have been killed in protests which were become regular since the coup

  • Authorities in several Gulf countries renewed weather warnings on Sunday as several days of heavy rains batter the usually arid...

    In Sharjah, pedestrians and vehicles were caught up in brown-colored water.

    The Saudi civil defense warned that moderate to heavy rain was expected to continue in several regions. 

  • Travel is permitted for non-vaccinated citizens, if the cases include medical exemption from taking the vaccine, humanitarian cases, and individuals...

    The announcement follows the UAE’s vision in the recovery phase of the pandemic and enhancing national efforts in all sectors

    This is being done to ensure that health and safety are prioritized by the leadership and the country's proactive efforts to confront COVID-19

  • Unicef Director Henrietta Fore said “parties to conflict” have continued to “demonstrate a dreadful disregard for the rights and wellbeing...

    In October, Unicef said around 10,000 children had been killed or maimed in Yemen since fighting escalated in March 2015

    Meanwhile, the Middle East and North Africa, in the first 6 months of 2021, saw the highest number of verified attacks on schools and hospitals

  • Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Hashed commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in a US drone strike outside Baghdad airport...

    Iraq marks the second anniversary of General and his Iraqi lieutenant death in a US drone strike, rallied against US

    Former US president Donald Trump ordered the strike that killed Soleimani, saying it was for attacks on US interests in Iraq

  • The writer was jailed in Turkey in 2014 on charges of illegal construction, which he claims were punishment for his...

    A prominent Turkish-Armenian writer living with temporary permit in Greece after fleeing a Turkish prison faces deportation

    The blogger had been convicted in Turkey of blasphemy over a 2012 blog defending an anti-Islam film

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow for discussion over expanding strategic cooperation.

    A treaty on mutual relations and principles of cooperation between Iran and Russia turned 20 on March 12, 2021

    The diplomatic apparatus of Russia and Iran described the treaty as a turning point in both countries’ relationship