Saudi Arabia, UAE to lead Middle East’s BESS expansion: S&P

The Middle East is poised for large expansion in battery energy storage systems (BESS), driven by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according to a report by S&P Global Ratings. Saudi Arabia has a target of 48 gigawatt hours (GWh) of BESS by 2030 to keep...

RedHill's $1.8M Middle East Deal Signals Global Demand for Effective H. pylori Treatment

RedHill Biopharma’s fixed-dose oral capsule marketed as Talicia, which combines the antibiotics amoxicillin and rifabutin and the proton pump inhibitor omeprazole, has been licensed for new Middle East markets in an agreement worth up to $1.8...

The UAE’s BRIDGE Summit wants 60,000 attendees to connect with entertainment, enterpreneurship, and policymaking in the Middle East

The United Arab Emirates is continuing its ambitious and expensive push to become a prominent hub for digital content creation with the BRIDGE Summit, which pitches itself as an event where “the future of media, entertainment, culture, and...

Sam Altman Tours Asia, Middle East for OpenAI’s $400B AI Expansion

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has launched an ambitious international campaign to secure the vast resources needed for his company’s explosive growth in artificial intelligence. Traveling through East Asia and the Middle East, Altman...

Plaza Premium names VP for Middle East, Africa

Plaza Premium Group has announced the promotion of Emrecan Ergin to Vice President, Middle East and Africa. With a proven track record of transformative leadership across Turkey and Hungary as Area General Manager since 2023, Ergin brings...

DPIIT and Thermo Fisher Scientific launch BioVerse Challenge

Thermo Fisher Scientific in collaboration with the Startup India, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has launched the BioVerse Challenge - a nation-wide programme to fast-track 500 high-potential biotech startups...

What will Israel's continuing control mean for the Palestinian economy?

Israel is expected to continue to control Palestine’s economy even if peace returns to the territory and the Gaza war ends amid current negotiations, while Palestine needs statehood to make its own decisions, experts have said. “I don't think that...

The Palestinian Authority is facing a legitimacy crisis

When Australia, France, Britain, Canada and a handful of other Western countries recognized a Palestinian State at the United Nations last week, one of their key stipulations was the wholesale reform of the Palestinian Authority (PA). After...

Two years of the Gaza genocide: A crime of Zionism and imperialism

Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza carry their belongings along the coastal road toward southern Gaza, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders from Gaza City. [AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi]Today marks two years...

TrendingGrinding Gaza war reaches two-year milestone, and Syria's new parliament

Today marks two years since the Hamas attack on Israel that started the devastating war on Gaza. Syrian authorities announced the winners of a parliamentary election. Iran said it has no immediate plans to resume nuclear talks with European...

Ravaged by war: Trying to survive Gaza’s present, hoping for a future

The pallets of aid dropped from the plane, their parachutes popping as they fell to the battered and hungry people of the Gaza Strip below.On the ground, most people in the seaside strip have been forced from their homes into a fraction of the...

Thousands in Gaza are missing 2 years into the war. Tormented families search for clues

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Thousands in Gaza are missing 2 years into the war; tormented families search for clues

Associated Press Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 07:50 Last update: about 46 minutes ago When Israeli bombs began falling, Mohammad al-Najjar, his wife and six children fled their house in southern Gaza in the dead of night, dispersing in terror...

World Associated Press Thousands in Gaza are missing 2 years into the war. Tormented families search for clues

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) — When Israeli bombs began falling, Mohammad al-Najjar, his wife and six children fled their house in southern Gaza in the dead of night, dispersing in terror alongside hundreds of others from their neighborhood. When...

This war of revenge has lasted two nightmare years. There’s only one hope for peace: Israel recognising Palestine | Raja Shehadeh

Being an eternal optimist, I hoped that the events of 7 October 2023 – Hamas’s attack on southern Israel and breaking of the Israeli siege of Gaza – might precipitate a reappraisal of Israeli strategy towards the Palestinians. I hoped Israeli...

Is Turkey doing all it can for Palestine?

Daniel Thorpe and Alparslan Aydın The Electronic Intifada 6 October 2025 In a crowded courtroom, the defendants sit in a line, most wearing kuffiyehs – the Palestinian checkered scarf. The judge and prosecutor murmur about court procedure while...

OPINION - Censorship in German media: Silencing Gaza

Since the beginning of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, German media have been accused of pro-Israeli bias. A new investigation shows that one of Germany's largest outlets, public broadcaster ZDF, systematically silences criticisms on Israel. ZDF...

Global Tech Leaders Unite to Propel Emerging Future-Critical Sectors at GITEX GLOBAL 2025

Landmark 45th edition of GITEX GLOBAL brings together the world’s most advanced AI and tech enterprises and leaders from 180 countries, from 13-17 October at Dubai World Trade Centre Expand North Star celebrates its 10th editionfrom 12-15 October...

Winners and losers In Trump’s Gaza peace plan

Saeed Naqvi What is the urgency driving Donald Trump to push his Gaza peace plan, even by dishonest means if necessary? In his eagerness to bid for the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump resorted to subterfuge, straightforward knavery. Even more compelling...