DUBAI: Damas International, a prominent Mideast jeweler involved in a multimillion-dollar bookkeeping scandal, agreed Wednesday to be taken over in a deal that values it at $445 million.
A consortium led by Qatari conglomerate Mannai Corp. said (...)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The live TV images of a caged and bedridden Hosni Mubarak being held to account for alleged crimes against his own people — by his own people — captivated viewers across the Middle East and appeared to many to be a (...)
DUBAI: Dow Chemical Co. and the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. outlined plans Monday to set up a joint venture to begin building a massive $20 billion chemical complex in the desert kingdom.
The decision by both companies' boards to create the new (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — NATO has denied a Libyan government charge that the alliance is intentionally using its airstrikes to assist rebel advances, saying it is sticking to its mandate to protect civilians.
Wing Cmdr. Mike Bracken, an alliance (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A defiant Muammar Gadhafi has threatened to carry out attacks in Europe against "homes, offices, families," unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.
The Libyan leader, sought by the (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) : Libya's government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray.
The incident (...)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Provoked by renewed daylight NATO bombing of his capital, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi raged against the alliance, screaming his message and daring Western forces to keep it up.
Gadhafi spoke in a telephone call that was (...)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A city of gleaming skyscrapers along the Persian Gulf hardly seems a fitting habitat for a cheetah, but there it was prowling among residential villas in Abu Dhabi.
An animal welfare activist who helped rescue (...)
DUBAI: Airlines in the United Arab Emirates say they have stopped carrying cargo from Yemen as a precaution following the discovery of two mail bombs shipped as air freight.
The Middle East's biggest airline Emirates, which operates out of Dubai, (...)
DUBAI: Mideast economies are likely to grow roughly twice as fast over the next two years as they did in 2009, but the region must do more to diversify its economies and create jobs, the International Monetary Fund said Sunday.
The (...)
DUBAI: Plans for an ambitious clean-energy city being built in the desert outside Abu Dhabi are being scaled back as part of a wide-ranging review of the $22 billion project, the government announced Sunday.
The state company behind Masdar (...)
DUBAI: After decades of turning out yellow-framed covers featuring Egyptian artifacts and other Mideast treasures, National Geographic magazine will for the first time soon start printing in Arabic.
The picture-packed science magazine lining (...)
MUSCAT: American Sarah Shourd stayed out of the spotlight for a second day Thursday, resting privately in Oman's sunny seaside capital after more than 13 months in an Iranian prison.
It is unclear how long the 32-year-old plans to stay in (...)
AMMAN: Mahmoud Tamimi's friends call it the "Dubai syndrome - the insatiable longing for a city he loves but was forced to leave. Back in Dubai, the 31-year-old had a good job, nice apartment and a $3,700 monthly salary, dozens of times what he'd (...)