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.
  • Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also took the opportunity to reiterate the Islamic republic's support for the Palestinian cause at a time when...

    Ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran "are progressing in the right direction," Amir-Abdollahian told reporters at a press conference with Prince Faisal bin Farhan.

    Thursday's meeting in the Saudi foreign ministry's Islamic Solidarity Hall "will be a prelude to the meeting of the heads of the two countries", he added.

  • Fighting raged from Monday night between the influential 444 Brigade and the Al-Radaa, two of the myriad of militias that...

    The clashes with rocket launchers and machine guns followed the detention of the 444 Brigade head, Colonel Mahmud Hamza, by the rival Al-Radaa Force on Monday

    During the fighting, 234 families were evacuated from frontline areas in Tripoli's southern suburbs, along with dozens of doctors and paramedics trapped while caring for wounded

  • The poorest country on the Arabian peninsula, Yemen's economy has collapsed in the eight years of war between Iran-backed Houthis...

    UN special envoy for Yemen warned of "public threats to return to war" in the Middle Eastern nation while the US and UK warned of escalating attacks and threats from Houthi rebels

    US Ambassador said Washington "strongly" condemns "senseless" maritime attacks by Houthis "on maritime shipping which are also exacerbating the humanitarian crisis"

  • In a separate statement late Tuesday, the commerce ministry announced the total lifting of subsidies on petrol and a partial...

    In two decrees issued late Tuesday, Assad doubled the salaries and pensions of those currently and formerly employed in the civil service and military

    Prior to the decision, the monthly salary of civil servants had been between around $10 and $25, depending on the Syrian pound's street value

  • ABU DHABI, UAE - A two-day meeting of world leading economists and finance leaders convened by the COP28 Presidency has...

    Particular areas of focus for the new framework will include addressing debt distress in vulnerable countries.

    Group said that private finance flows need to grow much faster to meet the $2.4 trillion investment estimated nnually.

  • Estimates reveal a 9-meter decline in Caspian Sea water levels, shrinking the area by 24 percent, as the northern half...

    Estimates reveal a 9-meter decline in Caspian Sea water levels, shrinking the area by 24%, as the northern half witnesses a more significant drop than the southern part.

    The Caspian Sea supports a vital fishery, provides water for agriculture, and is home to several threatened species, including 90% of the world's last-remaining sturgeon.

  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - The 11th Moscow Conference on International Security, held at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center here, saw...

    The conference saw participation from over 800 delegates from 76 countries, including China, India, South Africa, Israel, Turkey, Mexico, the UAE, Saudi Arabia.

    Representatives from eight international organizations, including the UN, CSTO, SCO, ASEAN, Arab League, and the African Union took part in the conference.

  • Twelve years after conflict broke out when President Bashar al-Assad repressed peaceful pro-democracy protests, Syrians are still trying to escape...

    Omar, 23, from Daraa province, borrowed $8,000 to be smuggled to Libya and then Italy this year, saying he was desperate to leave "a country with no future"

    More than 1,800 migrants of various nationalities have died crossing the central Mediterranean towards Europe this year, according to IOM

  • Three thousand additional US personnel on troop-landing warships have already passed through the Red Sea, and US-led maritime forces are...

    "There is a heightened threat, a heightened risk to regional mariners in terms of seizures" by Iran in the strait, said Tim Hawkins, spokesman for the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.

    Less than a week earlier, 3,000 US Marines and sailors arrived in the Red Sea on board the USS Bataan and USS Carter Hall warships, which can ferry troops ashore by aircraft.

  • Some 234 families were evacuated from front line areas in the capital's southern suburbs, along with dozens of doctors and...

    The clashes erupted over the detention of the head of the 444 Brigade by the rival Al-Radaa Force

    Social council in Soug el-Joumaa said a ceasefire would follow the transfer of the force's commander