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.
  • DUBAI, UAE - The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization (MoHRE) has launched awareness guidebooks for private sector companies and...

    The awareness guidebook for Emiratis working in the private sector covers 11 topics

    The awareness guidebook for the private sector companies covers nine topics.

  • Blinken arrived in Ramallah under tight security one day after meeting in Jordan with Arab foreign ministers angered by mounting...

    Blinken last week told a Senate hearing the Palestinian Authority should retake control of Gaza, even though it currently exercises only limited autonomy in parts of the West Bank.

    Blinken faced a rising tide of anger in meetings with Arab foreign ministers in Jordan on Saturday, where he reaffirmed US support for "humanitarian pauses".

  • Further south, a 22-year-old Palestinian was "killed by Israeli occupation bullets in Nuba, northwest of Hebron," the ministry said. Meanwhile,...

    Two men, aged 22 and 20, were killed "in an attack by Israeli occupation forces on Abu Dis", a suburb of annexed east Jerusalem

    One of the two was fatally hit by a "bullet in chest" and "six others were wounded, three seriously", according to a statement

  • "No foreign passport holder will be able to leave the Gaza Strip until wounded people who need to be evacuated...

    An Egyptian security source said that "no wounded person or holder of a foreign passport arrived at the Egyptian terminal" of Rafah

    He said the evacuation was suspended "after the bombing of ambulances transporting injured people on their way to the Egyptian terminal"

  • The UNODC warned of potential "humanitarian consequences for many vulnerable rural communities" due to the sudden contraction of Afghanistan's opium...

    UNODC report found that poppy cultivation has collapsed by an estimated 95 percent -- from 233,000 hectares at the end of 2022 to 10,800 in 2023

    Last year, poppy crops accounted for almost a third by value of total agricultural production in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer

  • In Jerusalem, hundreds came together outside Netanyahu's residence with more explicit calls for his resignation. The nine months leading up...

    In Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv, several thousand protesters took to the streets on Saturday evening, including relatives and friends of some of the hostages

    International pressure is growing on Israel to agree to humanitarian pauses in the Gaza fighting, but hostages' loved-ones said they should be released as a precondition

  • Turkey has hardened its attitude toward both Israel and its Western supporters, particularly the US, as the relentless Israeli attacks...

    Hamas in a statement hailed the decision and urged Turkey to put pressure on Joe Biden

    Israel called the move "another step by the Turkish president that sides with the Hamas"

  • Global outcry mounts as thousands protest in the US, UK, France, and Germany, defying their governments' support for Israeli aggression...

    Condemning US President Joe Biden for his support of Israel, thousands of protesters in the US capital Washington called for a ceasefire in Gaza

    Thousands marched in solidarity with Palestinians in Paris, where slogans were heard calling for a boycott of Israel along with shouts of "Israel terrorist state"

  • According to a statement posted by Hamas on Telegram, Israel "directly" bombed citizens' home, saying that most of the dead...

    Israel said it was looking into whether its army was operating in the area at the time of the bombing

    Gaza health ministry said more than 9,480 Gazans, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israeli strikes

  • Dubai, UAE - Middle East powers should maintain their push to de-escalate the region through trade and economic ties despite the...

    According to UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash, countries should maintain that strategy even though the war is sending shockwaves through the region.

    "National actors are basically trying to use economics as a way to de-escalate tension," Gargash told the World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi,