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 2021, France says it has handed over 15,000 visa to Afghans, "mostly women, rights defenders, journalists and magistrates". But...

    Safi herself has made it to France where she is seeking asylum, but her sister Frozan died in a hail of bullets back home

    Speaking in a shelter outside Paris, the 29-year-old Rita Safi said her sister would still be alive had the promised help been forthcoming

  • Macron told the Israeli premier of his "deepest concern" about civilian deaths and the humanitarian emergency in Gaza. He also...

    "France will work in the coming days in cooperation with Jordan to carry out humanitarian operations in Gaza," the French presidency added in a statement

    Netanyahu's office said the PM thanked Macron for "France's involvement in defending freedom of navigation and its willingness to help restore security along Israel's border."

  • Moscow, Russia - The aggregate GDP of the BRICS countries after the accession of its new members in 2024 will...

    The total GDP of the BRICS in the new line-up will already significantly exceed that of the G7, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said

    Lavrov noted that the share of Global South and Global East countries in the overall world economy is growing

  • Israel again pounded Gaza with air strikes and shelling after its military chief warned the war raging with Hamas since...

    Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, in an interview on Egyptian television, charged that the Gaza war "goes beyond a catastrophe and a genocide".

    Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Israel that it or its allied groups would take "direct" action to avenge the killing of senior commander Razi Moussavi.

  • "He (Netanyahu) is richer than Hitler. All kind of support comes from the West and the United States," Erdogan added....

    He has branded Israel a "terrorist state", Netanyahu "the butcher of Gaza" while calling Hamas "a liberation group".

    "There is no difference between the actions of Netanyahu and Hitler," he said during a ceremony in the capital in Ankara.

  • Last month flydubai, another low-cost Emirati airline, became the first international carrier to resume flights to Afghanistan since the chaotic...

    Last month flydubai, another low-cost Emirati airline, became the first international carrier to resume flights to Afghanistan

    Last year, GAAC signed a contract to manage Afghanistan's air traffic, an agreement that was expected to bring back international airlines

  • Sydney, Australia-- Australian police said Wednesday they were scouring beaches after mysterious packages believed to contain more than 120 kilograms (260...

    A first batch of 39 barnacle-encrusted, one-kilogram bricks of suspected cocaine was discovered on Friday near Magenta Beach, north of Sydney

    Since then, another 85 packages of the same size had been spotted along about 80 kilometers (50 miles) of the New South Wales coastline, state police said

  • Lebanon-Israel border has witnessed increasing hostilities amid the Israel-Hamas conflict since October 7, escalating exchanges involve the Israeli army and...

    Lebanon's National News Agency identified the dead as Ali Bazzi (Hezbollah fighter), his brother Ibrahim and his wife Shourouk Hammoud

    A relative of the deceased told AFP that Ibrahim Bazzi was an Australian citizen who had flown in for a visit about a week ago

  • After President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022, Western countries hit Russia with a slew of sanctions including a...

    India has been able to snap up discounted crude from Russia before refining it and selling it to European customers, reports say

    Russian Deputy PM Alexander Novak said he expected Russian oil and gas revenues will amount to almost nine trillion rubles ($98 billion) this year

  • Rafah, Palestinian Territories--Power cuts have become a fact of life in war-torn Gaza. But thanks to embedded SIM cards, Palestinians can...

    A local journalist, Hani al-Shaer, who uses it to do live streams, said that without eSim cards "we would be cut off from the world"

    Many rights groups have warned that phone and internet disruptions in Gaza could "provide cover for atrocities and breed impunity"