INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.
  • Doha, Qatar - Qatar is "hopeful" of a Gaza war ceasefire and is pushing for an agreement before Ramadan, its foreign...

    Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators met in Doha for talks also attended by Israeli and Hamas representatives.

    Qatar has been a key mediator in negotiations involving the Palestinian fighters, Israel, the United States and Egypt.

  • Tubas, Palestinian Territories - Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in an overnight raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West...

    The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah said the three men were killed "by Israeli occupation bullets" during clashes in the Faraa refugee camp.

    One of the three men killed was a fighter, a Palestinian official said, while the other two were civilians "in their homes and were killed by snipers deployed in the camp".

  • RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his accompanying delegation arrived here on Tuesday. The Ukrainian President...

    At the Royal Terminal in King Khalid International Airport, Zelenskyy was received by the Deputy Governor of Riyadh Region and other senior officials.

    The 10th Saudi relief plane operated by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) reached a Polish airport, close to the Ukrainian border.

  • ABU DHABI, UAE – The Ministry of Finance on Tuesday announced the issuance of Cabinet Decision No. 10 of 2024...

    A penalty of US$2,722 (AED10,000) will be imposed on businesses that do not submit their Corporate Tax registration applications on time.

    The penalty was implemented to prompt taxpayer compliance with laws through timely corporate tax registration.

  • French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal told the RTL broadcaster that there was "no consensus" on any "official" deployment of ground...

    Speaking a day after President Emmanuel Macron said that sending Western ground troops was not excluded, prime minister Attal said that "you can't rule anything out in a war."

    Macron, after hosting a meeting of two dozen European leaders to discuss Ukraine, on Monday painted a grim picture of a Russia whose positions he said were "hardening."

  • Beirut, Lebanon--Lebanon's Hizbollah said it launched a salvo of rockets at an Israeli air control base on Tuesday in retaliation for...

    The Lebanese armed group said it targeted the "Meron air control base... with a large salvo of rockets from several launchers"

    Hizbollah's rocket assault was sparked off after Israel struck Hizbollah targets near the city of Baalbek, killing two of its fighters

  • The Palestinian leadership has been divided since 2007, with the Palestinian Authority exercising limited power in the West Bank. Blinken...

    "We do welcome steps for the PA to reform and revitalize itself," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters, using the Palestinian Authority's initials

    State Department spokesman declined to comment directly on the resignation of prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, saying it was an internal matter for Palestinians

  • Yemen's Houthis have been targeting shipping for months and their attacks have persisted despite repeated US and British strikes aimed...

    US forces destroyed surface vessels, anti-ship cruise missiles, and an aerial vehicle

    Over the weekend, US and British forces carried out strikes against 18 Houthi targets

  • A deal between Hamas and Israel could include the exchange of dozens of hostages for several hundred Palestinian civilians held...

    Biden said in New York that "we're close, we're close, we're not done yet"

    An unnamed Israeli official told news site Ynet the "direction (of the talks) is positive"

  • Hizbollah announced several other attacks on Israeli sites and troops on Monday, with local media also reporting Israeli strikes on...

    The Israeli army told AFP that "dozens of rockets" had been launched from Lebanon but there were no immediate reports of casualties

    Earlier Israel targeted Hizbollah "aerial defence" sites in retaliation for the group's downing one of its drones in south Lebanon