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.
  • Qatari cabinet has approved draft social security and military retirement laws aimed at establishing "an effective social protection system for...

    The draft laws call for expanding the scope of insurance coverage to include all citizens working in the public and private sectors.

    The draft laws recommend that the minimum pension shall not be less than QR15,000 ($4,119).

  • Tourism Minister Walid Nassar said the move was aimed at preventing Beirut from being used as a departure point.

    Thousands of migrants -- including from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq -- have been massing at Belarus' border with Poland, hoping to seek asylum in the EU.

    The West accuses Belarus of creating the crisis by bringing in would-be migrants and taking them to the border with promises of an easy crossing into the bloc.

  • The fund will collaborate with the UN agency to build climate-resilience and take shock-informed anticipatory action.

    Somalia is said to be highly vulnerable to recurrent shocks, with colliding and cumulative effects

    It has been recurrently affected by droughts, flash and riverine flooding, cyclones, locusts, disease outbreaks, and conflict

  • The Islamic republic shot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 shortly after take-off from its capital Tehran on January 8,...

    The Islamic republic shot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 shortly after take-off from its capital Tehran on January 8, 2020

    Three days later, it admitted that its forces had mistakenly targeted the Kiev-bound Boeing 737-800 plane

  • Erdogan greeted Sheikh Mohammed on the ceremonial blue carpet at the presidential palace in Ankara on Wednesday before they went...

    The fund's aim was "to support the Turkish economy and boost bilateral cooperation between the two countries," the official Emirati news agency WAM said

    The main focus of the fund will be on "strategic investments", especially in sectors including energy, health and food, WAM reported

  • The election commission said presidential candidates should have a clean criminal record, with the country’s election law saying that hopefuls...

    Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had been sentenced to death by a Tripoli court for crimes committed during the revolt that toppled his father

    He was later pardoned by a rival administration in eastern Libya

  • Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the talks he held in Tehran on Tuesday...

    Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the talks he held in Tehran on Tuesday were "inconclusive" despite being "constructive".

    "In terms of the substance... we were not able to make progress," Grossi told reporters, saying that the lack of agreement had come "in spite of my best efforts".

  • The Morocco deal came as Gantz made the first visit by an Israeli defence minister to the North African kingdom....

    Israel has several security MoUs with allied nations, but the Morocco deal marks the first-of-its-kind agreement with a majority Arab nation

    Tel Aviv has now full diplomatic relations with only four Arab countries: Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain

  • Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday,...

    Erdogan greeted Sheikh Mohammed on the ceremonial blue carpet at the presidential palace

    The groundwork was laid for the rapprochement with a visit in August by a UAE delegation

  • Israeli strikes targeting a part of Syria where fighters loyal to Lebanon's Hezbollah are based killed five people Wednesday, a...

    The Israeli missiles struck an area near three villages in the west of Homs province

    Three Syrian soldiers as well as two Syrian militiamen were killed in the early morning strikes