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.
  • Tehran, Iran -- Iran's parliament speaker said on Sunday that the latest US proposal for a nuclear deal does not...

    Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called it a sign of dishonesty, accusing the Americans of seeking to impose a "unilateral" agreement that Tehran would not accept.

    "The delusional US president should know better and change his approach if he is really looking for a deal," Ghalibaf said.

  • I have instructed the military to prevent the Madleen flotilla from reaching Gaza," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in...

    Aboard the boat are nationals of Germany, France, Brazil, Turkey, Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands.

    In May, another Freedom Flotilla ship, the Conscience, reported coming under drone attack.

  • Only eight countries have won the World Cup in 22 editions up to the most recent tournament in Qatar, when...

    Of the eight previous World Cups held on the American continent, seven have been won by a South American team.

    There was a European winner in Brazil in 2014, when Germany edged Argentina in the final.

  • Nice, France -- France is hosting world leaders this week to confront what the United Nations calls a global "emergency"...

    There is pressure on the UN Ocean Conference starting Monday in Nice to show that countries can unite and deliver more than just talk for the world's ailing and neglected seas.

    Several countries are expected to announce the creation of new marine conservation zones within their national waters, though how protected they really are will come under scrutiny

  • Cairo, Egypt - An aid ship with 12 activists on board, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, is nearing Gaza,...

    The Madleen, part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left Sicily last week with a cargo of relief supplies "to break Israel's blockade on Gaza."

    The Global March to Gaza plans to gather in Cairo on June 12 before travelling by bus a day later to Al-Arish near Egypt's border with Gaza

  • Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 13 Palestinians on Saturday, six of them in a shooting...

    Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said it was looking into the incident, the latest deadly fire near the Al-Alam aid point

    The GHF began operations in late May as Israel partially eased a more than two-month blockade on the Gaza Strip

  • Tehran, Iran - Tehran denounced on Saturday the US travel ban on Iranians and citizens of 11 other mostly Middle...

    US President Donald Trump signed on Wednesday an executive order reviving sweeping restrictions that echo his first-term travel ban

    An Iranian foreign ministry official said that the ban was discriminatory and would "entail international responsibility for the US government."

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that Israel is supporting an armed group in Gaza that opposes the militant group Hamas,...

    Israeli and Palestinian media have reported that the group Israel has been working with is part of a local Bedouin tribe led by Yasser Abu Shabab

    The European Council on Foreign Relations (EFCR) think tank describes Abu Shabab as the leader of a "criminal gang operating in the Rafah area

  • Thursday's attacks on what the Israeli military said were underground Hezbollah drone factories came after an Israeli evacuation call on...

    Hezbollah sparked months of deadly hostilities by launching cross-border attacks on northern Israel in stated solidarity with Palestinian ally Hamas

    Lebanese President Joseph Aoun late on Thursday voiced "firm condemnation of the Israeli aggression" and "flagrant violation of an international accord."

  • The Ukrainian air force said Russia had fired 206 drones and nine missiles and added that "the air attack was...

    The Kremlin has accelerated its attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks, while the latest ceasefire negotiations have failed to broker an end to the three-year war

    The Ukrainian air force said Russia had fired 206 drones and nine missiles and added that the air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops