The DFM General Index increased 4.9 percent to the highest level since Jan. 6, taking its three-day gain to 11 percent. The measure’s 30-day volatility is near the highest in a year following the swings in January. Abu Dhabi’s ADX General Index advanced 3.7 percent. First Gulf Bank PJSC was the biggest contributor to gains with a 12.4 percent jump, ...

Henry Meyer / Bloomberg The latest bid to end five years of war in Syria gathered some momentum as the main opposition group arrived in Geneva for United Nations-sponsored talks, though it refused to lift a threat to boycott the peace process. The Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee, whose delegation landed in the Swiss city on Saturday, said it will have ...

Berlin / AFP Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance has slumped to its lowest since July 2002 as opposition over her liberal refugee policy grows, a survey showed on Sunday, while a right-wing populist party polled a record high. According to the poll published by the Bildam Sonntag newspaper, public support for Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and sister ...