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.
  • Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli border has seen near-daily exchanges of...

    Israel's army chief Herzi Halevi said earlier this month that the likelihood of war on the northern border has become "much higher"

    Gallant said Monday that Gaza fighters were running out of supplies and ammunition, but that the war against Hamas "will take months"

  • Several countries, including the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Japan, have announced the suspension of further funding to the...

    UNRWA said it acted promptly over allegations but that cuts in funding will affect ordinary Palestinians

    In Gaza people said the support they received from the agency amounted to a lifeline

  • Sheikh Mohammed confirmed that the framework -- which he said might lead to a permanent ceasefire -- includes a phased...

    Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said "good progress" had been made and the parties were "hoping to relay this proposal to Hamas

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has called the Paris talks "constructive" but pointed to "significant gaps which the parties will continue to discuss"

  • Washington D.C., US--– Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US, Reema Bandar Al-Saud, has expressed disappointment with recent media criticism of...

    The ambassador, reacting to an opinion piece in the Washington Post, slammed the piece for relying on "outdated stereotypes and western-centric views"

    She cited inaccuracies in the portrayal of Saudi women as oppressed and devoid of rights and said that the kingdom has made substantial progress in women's rights

  • Taher al-Nunu, a senior Hamas official, said his group wanted a "complete and comprehensive ceasefire, and not a temporary truce."...

    Extensive talks in Paris had resulted in a framework for a phased truce

    The framework would see women and children hostages released first

  • Ankara, Turkey - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday expressed serious apprehensions about the escalating situation in the Gaza...

    Hakan Fidan described the current events as "a tragedy on another scale" and emphasized the need for prompt preventive measures

    If people in Gaza also begin to die of hunger and disease, it will become a great moral burden that the world will not be able to bear, he said

  • Palestinian Territories - Even the dead are not spared by the Hamas-Israel war raging in Gaza, with bodies dug up...

    In Gaza City's Al-Tuffah district, shrouded corpses of Palestinians torn from their graves lay atop muddied earth.

    Israel's military had bulldozed the site and exhumed bodies, according to an AFP photographer who visited it.

  • Gazans lamented the suspension of funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees by several donor countries after Israel charged...

    Several countries, including the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Japan, have announced the suspension of further funding to the agency.

    In Rafah, where 1.5 million displaced people have taken refuge, Gazans said that the support they received from the agency amounted to a lifeline.

  • Israel's relentless military offensive has since killed at least 26,422 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according...

    140 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombing overnight, including 20 members of one family, said the health ministry in the Palestinian territory.

    In the latest efforts to broker a new ceasefire, CIA chief William Burns met top Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Paris on Sunday, but no breakthrough was reported.

  • Tehran carried out strikes against an anti-Iran group in Pakistan on January 16, the same week the nation's military targeted...

    During Pakistan visit, Iranian foreign minister said the hostilities could not be described as a "crisis" because relations had always been strong

    Pakistan Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani told the same briefing that both sides had agreed to strengthen dialogue at all levels