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.
  • "We expect the negotiations to be very complex and difficult but Hamas is open to discussions and the movement is...

    Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed the organization's ceasefire proposal, calling it "bizarre".

    The Palestinian official said a Hamas delegation would meet Egyptian officials in Cairo from Thursday to again discuss the details of ceasefire.

  • Washington, US - The United States military confirmed on Thursday its forces conducted multiple strikes against Houthi missile systems as the...

    US "conducted self-defense strikes against two Houthi mobile anti-ship cruise missiles prepared to launch against ships in the Red Sea," CENTCOM said.

    The strikes "will protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for US Navy and merchant vessels", it said.

  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left Israel without securing a pause in fighting, wrapping up his fifth crisis tour...

    UN rights chief Volker Turk charged that Israel was committing a "war crime" with its reported destruction of buildings to create a "buffer zone" along the border inside Gaza.

    Hundreds of thousands of people's lives are at risk in north and central Gaza because of a lack of food, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned.

  • Muizzu won last year’s presidential election on the "India Out" platform against Ibrahim Mohamed Solih's "India first" policy.

    Muizzu won last year’s presidential election on the "India Out" platform against Ibrahim Mohamed Solih's "India first" policy

    He has reaffirmed friendly relations with India but has maintained an uncompromising position on the presence of Indian troops

  • The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is expected to win the most seats in Thursday's vote, with analysts saying its 74-year-old...

    Adding to the concerns about the integrity of the vote, authorities announced just before polls opened that they had suspended mobile telephone services across the country

    Pollsters had predicted a low turnout from the country's 128 million eligible voters following a lacklustre campaign overshadowed by the jailing of former prime minister Imran Khan

  • Four students and a woman and her son were among the dead along with an unidentified civilian, the Observatory said,...

    Eleven people including seven civilians" and two Hizbollah fighters were killed in "Israeli bombardment" of a building in the Hamra neighborhood of Homs

    The strikes completely levelled the building in one of the city's most affluent districts, and also hit other targets linked to Iran-backed groups

  • In Beirut, a senior Hamas official responded, saying Netanyahu's "insistence on continuing the aggression totally confirms that the goal... is...

    Netanyahu has ordered troops to prepare to move on the city of Rafah in Gaza's far south, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge

    An official from mediator Egypt told AFP that "a new round of negotiations" would start on Thursday in Cairo aimed at achieving "calm in the Gaza Strip".

  • "The presence of US forces in our region has no justification," Raisi said in a Tehran ceremony ahead of the...

    Raisi said the US presence "in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and the region is in no way creating security. It disrupts the security in the region"

    Raisi's remarks to foreign diplomats came while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was on a regional tour for talks on the Gaza ceasefire deal

  • "Ten people, including six civilians and two Hizbollah fighters, were killed in Israeli strikes on a building in the Hamra...

    Three students and a woman were among the dead, two of whom have yet to be identified, an official said

    Two Hizbollah fighters were also among the dead, a source to the Iran-backed Lebanese group confirmed to AFP

  • "There's a lot of work to be done, but we are very much focused on doing that work and hopefully...

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that if Israel presses into Gaza's far-southern Rafah, it "would exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare".

    AFPTV footage showed frantic scenes of Palestinians running for their lives, many screaming, as gunfire rang out from advancing Israeli forces in a Gaza City neighborhood.