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.
  • Falsely accusing people of faking their suffering has become "one of the most predictable" disinformation tactics in a crisis scenario, said Mike Caulfield,...

    The information war running in parallel with the deadly conflict on the ground has seen conspiracy theorists accuse ordinary Palestinians and Israelis of being "crisis actors"

    Some of the most viral posts targeting war-afflicted Gazans have used the term "Pallywood", a derogatory label blending "Palestine" with "Hollywood."

  • Speaking to the reporters in the Oval Office, US president said he hoped and expected "that there will be less...

    The WHO said that nearly 2,300 people were in the 'crippled' Al-Shifa facility

    Israel is under huge international pressure to minimize civilian suffering

  • Tel Aviv, Israel - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) suspended its military operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip,...

    A humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the Palestinian enclave’s northern areas will be available from Al Shifa Hospital to the southern Gaza Strip.

    The Israeli military will allow Palestinian refugees to leave the Al-Shati camp, which the IDF claims to have taken control of,

  • JERUSALEM - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Monday its operations in war-torn Gaza would shut down within two...

    "The humanitarian operation in Gaza will grind to a halt in the next 48 hours as no fuel is allowed to enter Gaza," UNRWA's Gaza chief Thomas White said

    "This morning two of our main water distribution contractors ceased working -- they simply ran out of fuel -- which will deny 200,000 people potable water," he said

  • Youssef Abu Rish told AFP seven premature babies and 27 patients had died in recent days in Gaza City's Al-Shifa...

    The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Monday its Gaza operations might shut down due to fuel shortages.

    Jordan's King Abdullah II said on Monday that "any scenario or idea of (Israel) reoccupying parts of Gaza or establishing buffer zones there will exacerbate the crisis".

  • Nairobi, Kenya -- Nations grappling with the plastic "suffocating" nature and leaching into food and the human body began fresh...

    Around 60 so-called "high ambition" nations have called for binding rules to reduce the use and production of plastic

    Kenyan President William Ruto described plastic pollution as "an existential threat to life, to humanity and everything in between."

  • In Geneva, the second-largest UN headquarters after New York, the UN flag on Monday flew at half-mast and none of...

    The blue and white United Nations flag was first lowered at 9:30 am local time at offices in Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing, and later, other UN offices followed suit

    The UN agency for supporting Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced on Friday that 101 of its employees had died in the Gaza Strip since the war erupted

  • US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that his country's forces carried out precision strikes on facilities in Syria used by...

    Austin said the strikes were conducted against a training facility and a safe house

    There are nearly 2,500 American troops based in Iraq and some 900 in Syria

  • "We heard that there was an impending deal of this kind or of that kind and then we learned that...

    But he stopped short of providing specifics about any plan that might be coming together to free some or all of the 239 hostages that Israel says are being held captive.

    A source close to Hamas said this week that negotiations have occurred over a possible three-day ceasefire in exchange for the release of a dozen hostages.

  • Erdogan returned from a summit on Saturday of Arab and Muslim leaders in the Saudi capital Riyadh, which condemned Israeli...

    "The most important country that needs to be involved is the United States, which has influence on Israel," Erdogan said. But he said he would not call Biden.

    "We cannot agree with Biden if he approaches (the conflict) by seeing Gaza as the land of occupying settlers or Israel, rather than the land of the Palestinian people," he said.