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.
  • Safadi said Jordan welcomes the announcement of extending the cease-fire in Yemen for two months.

    Safadi said Jordan welcomes the announcement of extending the cease-fire in Yemen for two months

    The ministers stressed efforts to reach a political solution to end the Yemeni crisis and restore stability in the embattled country

  • The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine, which is at the center of international concern amid mutual accusations of shelling...

    The power plant located close to the Crimean peninsula which was annexed by Moscow in 2014 was captured by Russian forces on March 4, 2022

    Ukraine says there are around 500 Russian troops at the plant and has called for the establishment of a demilitarized zone

  • Nuri al-Maliki said, "Neither the dissolution of parliament nor the change of the regime nor early elections will be possible...

    Sadr's supporters have continued a sit-in protest in the gardens around the parliament, inside Baghdad's normally secure Green Zone

    On Thursday Shiite Coordination Framework had said they were conditionally open to Sadr's call for new elections, signaling a potential de-escalation

  • Diplomats at the UN Security Council have expressed concern at the situation in Gaza despite the tenuous truce between Islamic...

    Egypt brokered the ceasefire ending the intense fighting that killed 44 people, including 15 children

    Palestinian ambassador Riyad Mansour denounced Israel's "unjustified aggression against Gaza

  • Jordan and Canada on Sunday discussed enhancing bilateral development cooperation, especially in food and water security. Jordan’s Minister of Planning...

    Canada is expected to support the education sector and vocational and technical education in Jordan.

    The two sides agreed to renew the MoU signed in 2015 between both countries to identify the areas where Canada could support Jordan.

  • Iran said Monday it is examining a "final text" presented by the European Union at the negotiations in Vienna aimed...

    Iranian sources have suggested an International Atomic Energy Agency probe is a key sticking point in reviving the nuclear deal.

    Talks aimed at reviving the agreement over Iran's nuclear program resumed on Thursday in Vienna, months after they had stalled.

  • Gaza's health ministry said 15 children were among 44 people killed in three days of intense fighting. Despite a flurry...

    In addition to those killed, Gazan health officials said 360 people had been wounded in the Palestinian enclave, which is run by Hamas.

    "We have a lot of martyrs and wounded, and devastation and destruction, but Gaza is tending to its wounds," said Gaza resident Mohammed Alai.

  • The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Naif Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf condemned aggression of Israeli forces on the Gaza...

    UAE expressed concern over escalation and called for restraint to prevent Gaza from violence and instability while Saudi Arabia condemned the attack on Gaza Strip

    The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned Israeli forces for the attack on Gaza Strip, which resulted in multiple deaths

  • More than 30 people fled a Lebanon detention center at dawn on Sunday, security forces said, after sawing their way...

    The Adlieh detention center was formerly controlled by Lebanon's General Security agency but is now managed by the country's prison authority.

    It was notorious for abuses committed against detained Syrian refugees and foreign migrant domestic workers, according to rights groups, including Human Rights Watch.

  • Syria's internal commerce ministry has announced a petrol price hike of around 130 percent in the war-torn country facing fuel...

    The cost of a liter of subsidized fuel will rise to US$0.99 (2,500 Syrian pounds), from US$0.43 (1,100 Syrian pounds)

    The cost of non-subsidized petrol will rise from US$1.39 (3,500 Syrian pounds) to US$1.59 (4,000 Syrian pounds), the ministry said.