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.
  • A well-known Turkish defense analyst and founder of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), Metin Gurcan, has been jailed...

    Turkish police detained him on Friday

    Gurcan was then jailed on Monday, according to the private NTV broadcaster

  • French President Emmanuel Macron has called on his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi to return to fulfilling Tehran's obligations under the...

    In telephone talks Macron urged Raisi to engage in a "constructive manner" in the talks that resumed after a suspension of almost half a year

    European powers are seeking to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that has been moribund since the United States walked out in 2018

  • Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a statement on Monday that his country supports the Kingdom's initiative.

    Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a statement on Monday that his country supports the Kingdom's initiative

    Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers will discuss the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan

  • The meeting "is shaping up to be one of the most significant since the pandemic demand recovery began, and the...

    Biden called it a "major initiative", with analysts estimating the injection at between 65 and 80 million barrels, including 50 million from the United States alone.

    The group said earlier this month it planned to boost output by 400,000 barrels per day in December, despite a room for manoeuvre that is 10 times greater

  • Syria denies the use of chemical weapons and insists it has handed over its weapons stockpiles under a 2013 agreement...

    Syria denies the use of chemical weapons and insists it has handed over its weapons stockpiles under a 2013 agreement with the US and Russia

    Syria was stripped of its OPCW voting rights in April after a probe blamed it for further poison gas attacks

  • WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said another disastrous pandemic was bound to happen unless countries strengthened global defenses.

    WHO member states reached a consensus Sunday on kick-starting the process towards a pandemic treaty.

    The draft decision was secured after countries agreed to compromise, notably, the US which is lukewarm on whether the outcome needs to be a legally-binding treaty.

  • The government has shown its willingness and seriousness by sending a quality team known to all. If the other side...

    The 2015 agreement offered a lifting of some of the array of economic sanctions in return for strict curbs on its nuclear program.

    But the deal began falling apart in 2018 when then US president Donald Trump pulled out and began reinstating sanctions.

  • The seventh General Assembly of Global Public Diplomacy Network will get underway in Katara, chaired by Qatar.

    The meeting is scheduled to witness modifications in the development of the network's structure, and to lay out a vision for its strategy in expanding the areas of cooperation

    It will also witness the joining of seven new countries (Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, Tajikistan, Ghana, Rwanda, and Palestine)

  • More than 45,000 people have been displaced by the fierce fighting in Marib province in the past two months.

    More than 45,000 people have been displaced by the fierce fighting in Marib province in the past two months

    The UN children's agency said it was supporting more than 7,500 people in the camp by providing clean water, hygiene kits and portable toilets

  • Morocco will halt incoming passenger flights for two weeks starting Monday night amid concern over the spread of a new,...

    The announcement came hours after Israel said it would be closing its borders to foreign tourists from Sunday evening.

    Morocco has officially recorded around 950,000 Covid-19 cases and more than 14,500 deaths.