INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

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.

BYD Q3 profit down 33%

This was a 33% year-on-year decrease.
  • Israel has repeatedly claimed that Hamas uses the hospital as cover for a command post and weapons stores, a claim...

    Israel said its troops were carrying out "a precise and targeted operation against Hamas"

    Hamas has accused US President Joe Biden of being responsible for the Israeli assault on Al-Shifa

  • The Israeli army said its forces conducted "counterterrorism activities" in the city, during which "engineering vehicles uncovered explosive devices planted...

    Seven Palestinians were killed during an Israeli military raid on the northern city of Tulkarem, the health ministry and a local hospital said

    In a separate incident near the southern West Bank city Hebron, a 20-year-old Palestinian was killed by "occupation bullets", the Palestinian health ministry said

  • A journalist inside the hospital who is collaborating with AFP said the stench of decomposing bodies was everywhere in the...

    "We were forced to bury them in a mass grave," said Al-Shifa hospital director Mohammad Abu Salmiyah

    "There are bodies littered in the hospital complex and there is no longer electricity at the morgues," he said.

  • Military units "took over the Hamas parliament, the government building, the Hamas police headquarters and an engineering faculty that served...

    The army said the institutions have been "used for training in preparation for the attack on Israel" on October 7.

    Israel has heavily bombed and invaded the densely populated Gaza Strip, killing more than 11,200 and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

  • Doha, Qatar -- Qatar has strongly condemned the Israeli shelling of the Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza's headquarters,...

    The incident, viewed as an extension of the occupation's pattern of targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, has sparked international outrage, Qatar said.

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Qatar in denouncing the attack and emphasized the immediate need for a ceasefire.

  • Abu Dhabi, UAE -- Rapid advances in AI technologies have created a major challenge for the media sector: the difficulty...

    Professor Charlie Beckett of LSE says it is important to keep pace with AI advances like ChatGPT and Metaverse.

    He said despite warnings about AI, it remained a useful tool for creating huge content and handling services using algorithms.

  • Dubai, UAE -- As world leaders and climate experts gear up for the COP28 climate summit scheduled to take place...

    COP28 has been strategically organized around four overarching themes: Technology and Innovation; Inclusion; Frontline Communities; and Finance, writes Pedro Gomez of WEF.

    COP28's Trade Day will explore the potential of trade to reduce emissions across the value chain and promote markets for climate-friendly products.

  • The parties to the conflict pledged last week at talks in Saudi Arabia to improve humanitarian access, tasking the UN...

    Martin Griffiths demanded unimpeded access for UN relief teams to help stem what he called the "avalanche of human suffering" in Sudan

    After nearly seven months of conflict between the Sudanese army and RSF "almost 25 million people in Sudan are now in need of humanitarian assistance," Griffiths said

  • A local mayor and Lebanese state media corroborated the journalists' account of the cross-border incident, which came exactly a month...

    Al Jazeera's Lebanon bureau chief accused Israel of "directly targeting" the group, adding that the journalists were in an open area

    Lebanon's official National News Agency also said two Israeli strikes "targeted a media team" who were working in Yarun

  • Washington, United States - Israel and the Hamas are close to reaching agreements that will make possible to free the...

    The agreement can be announced within several days if the latest issues are resolved, according to the Washington Post op-ed

    According to preliminary agreements, Israeli women and children will be freed in groups simultaneously with Palestinian women and youth currently in Israeli prisons