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.
  • The opposing encampments are the latest turn in a standoff between Iraq's rival Shiite blocs which has so far remained...

    The protests reflect months of failed talks by Iraq's political forces to form a new government after inconclusive October elections

    Loyalists of Sadr, a revered Shiite cleric who once led a militia against US and Iraqi government forces, have been demanding fresh elections

  • Turkey’s top court has rejected a plea for the release of Aysel Tugluk, a Kurdish politician, but ordered that she...

    Many of her supporters believe she developed dementia after witnessing Turkish nationalists attack her mother's funeral in Ankara in 2017

    Tugluk was arrested for her activities with the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), an organization that Turkish authorities consider to be linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party

  • Iran may accept the final compromise worked out in Vienna to save the 2015 nuclear agreement, its official news agency...

    The deal meant to curb Iran's nuclear programme has been moribund since the withdrawal of the United States under president Donald Trump in 2018.

    The major powers are awaiting Tehran's response to a proposal submitted on July 26 by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

  • Iran plans to commission three more versions of a satellite launched this week by Russia, Tehran's government spokesman said Friday....

    A Soyuz-2.1b rocket sent the satellite into orbit from the Moscow-controlled Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

    Khayyam, apparently named after the 11th-century Persian polymath Omar Khayyam, will not be the first Iranian satellite that Russia has put into space.

  • “Progress towards a resolution can only be reached through negotiation by the two governments,” State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said.

    “Progress towards a resolution can only be reached through negotiation by the two governments,” State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said

    Lebanon and Israel are located in the Levant Basin, where a number of big sub-sea gas fields have been discovered since 2009

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of "nuclear blackmail" as he urged the international community to react immediately to chase...

    Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday accused each other of new shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a dangerous escalation five months into the war

    The Ukrainian plant is under the control of Russian troops, and Ukraine has accused Moscow of basing hundreds of soldiers and storing arms there

  • Tim Lenderking will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Saudi Arabia starting August 11, while members of his...

    The United Nations announced on August 2 that a four-month truce had been extended until October 2, buying time for negotiations to establish a longer, more durable ceasefire

    Yemen has been gripped by conflict since the Iran-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital Sanaa in 2014, triggering a Saudi-led military intervention

  • During the conversation, the two sides discussed the partnership between the US and Kuwait, regional security.

    During the conversation, the two sides discussed the partnership between the US and Kuwait, regional security

    In a statement, the US NSA said the two leaders discussed the need to turn the UN-mediated truce in Yemen into a lasting settlement

  • The establishment of nuclear-free zones is a key step to boost non-proliferation system and achieve a full nuclear disarmament, says...

    The establishment of nuclear-free zones is a key step to boost non-proliferation system and achieve a full nuclear disarmament, says a top Qatari official

    Over the past decades, five nuclear weapon-free zones have been established that include the commitment of the signatories not to possess nuke arms

  • Iraq has agreed to renew a one-year deal to provide Lebanon with fuel for its power plants in exchange for...

    For the past year, Lebanon's power plants have depended on the deal with Iraq to produce one to two hours of electricity per day.

    Residents in the poverty-stricken country largely rely on expensive private generators for power the rest of the time.