INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Samsung biggest chip investor

The tech giant invested nearly $59.2bn in 2025.

flynas to set up new hub

Five destinations in first phase of operations.

AD Ports Group acquires CLI

CLI is Brazilian agri-bulk terminal operator.

$1.59bn Makkah project awarded

A consortium will develop two districts in the Holy City.

2PointZero posts profit surge

Growth driven by merger consolidation.
  • The message was sent to the UN Security Council in a letter by Iran's UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani which...

    Trump said on Saturday "there will be bombing" if Iran did not agree a nuclear deal, and also threatened to punish Tehran with what he called "secondary tariffs".

    Despite the sharpening of Trump's comments, it was not clear if he was threatening a US bombing or an operation coordinated with another country

  • A French court on Monday threw into severe doubt far-right leader Marine Le Pen's 2027 bid for president, handing her...

    She was convicted over a scheme to take advantage of European Parliament expenses to employ assistants who were actually working for her far-right party in France

    Le Pen as well as the other officials were banned from running for office, with the judge specifying that the sanction should come into force with immediate effect

  • Paris, France -- A French court on Monday threw into severe doubt far-right leader Marine Le Pen's 2027 bid for...

    A French court on Monday handed her a five-year ban on running for office after convicting her over a fake jobs scheme.

    She was also given a four-year prison term by the Paris court but will not go to jail, with two years of the term suspended and the other two to be served outside jail.

  • Trump's language represented a sharpening of his comment a few days earlier that if Tehran refused to negotiate a new...

    It was not clear whether Trump was threatening bombing by US planes alone or perhaps in an operation coordinated with Israel

    Trump in 2018 pulled the United States out of an agreement to relieve sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program

  • "If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think...

    NBC's Kristen Welker said Trump had called her to express his fury over Putin questioning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's future as a leader

    Putin rejected a joint US-Ukrainian plan for a 30-day ceasefire, and on Friday suggested Zelensky be removed from office as part of the peace process

  • A senior Hamas official stated on Saturday that the group had approved a new ceasefire proposal put forward by mediators...

    Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike on a house and tent sheltering displaced Palestinians killed at least eight people, including five children

    The strike in Khan Yunis came in the morning on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan

  • Istanbul, Turkey --  The Turkish opposition on Sunday worked to keep up the momentum of the protest movement triggered by...

    With Turkey entering several days of public holiday marking the end of the Ramadan, the opposition has vowed to keep up the protest movement while switching to focused events.

    Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Thursday 1,879 people had been detained in connection with the protests since March 19, with 260 of them remanded in custody pending trial.

  • At dawn, many Gazans gathered across different parts of the territory to offer traditional morning Eid prayers, an AFP correspondent...

    Many prayed beside makeshift tents sheltering tens of thousands of displaced Gazans, living in dire humanitarian conditions.

    At the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, several residents visited the graves of loved ones killed in the war.

  • Oslo, Norway -- The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, in a closely watched...

    Isar Aerospace, which had said it did not expect to reach orbit with the launch, said the two-stage rocket fell into the sea, adding that "the launch pad seems to be intact".

    The 28-metre (92-foot) tall, two-meter diameter rocket has a one-ton carrying capacity, but was unloaded for the test flight.

  • The talks in Doha started a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to seize parts of Gaza if...

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed it had also received a proposal from the mediators and had submitted a counter-proposal in response

    The fragile truce that had brought weeks of relative calm to the Gaza Strip ended on March 18 when Israel resumed its bombing campaign across the territory