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.
  • A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces as clashes erupted during an army raid on Saturday in Jenin...

    "A 17-year-old boy was killed and an 18-year-old was critically wounded by the Israeli occupation's bullets during its aggression on Jenin," the ministry said in a statement.

    The official Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the teenager as Amjad al-Fayed

  • The Greek foreign ministry issued "an immediate and strong-worded protest" to the Turkish ambassador in Athens.

    The Greek foreign ministry issued "an immediate and strong-worded protest" to the Turkish ambassador in Athens

    It said the Turkish fighter jets "illegally entered our national airspace and approached Alexandroupolis within a distance of just 2.5 nautical miles".

  • Qatar, Amir said, plans to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Germany by 2024.

    Qatar, Amir said, plans to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Germany by 2024.

    He expressed hope there will be a nuclear agreement with Iran, and Qatar was ready to help

  • Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Friday appointed a loyalist law professor to head a committee charged with writing a constitution...

    Saied has vowed to scrap the country's 2014 constitution and draft a replacement to be put to referendum in July

    Saied has also created three other committees to focus on socio-economic issues, the judiciary and on national dialogue

  • Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed president Putin of "the end of the operation and the complete liberation of the...

    Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed president Putin of "the end of the operation and the liberation of the city of Mariupol."

    On May 20, the last group of 531 Azov regiment of Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol surrendered to Russian army, Russian official has confirmed

  • State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "We urge those elected and the country's political leaders to heed the Lebanese people's...

    Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite militant movement, with its allies lost a parliamentary majority in Sunday's vote as independents made a surprise breakthrough.

    The US statement saluted the holding of elections on time but voiced concerns about "allegations of vote buying, clientelism and reports of intimidation."

  • Syrian authorities on Friday rejected plans by Turkey to return one million Syrian refugees to a "safe zone" on the...

    Erdogan in early May said Ankara was aiming to encourage1 million Syrian refugees to return to their country by building them housing and local infrastructure.

    Turkey is today home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees, who fled after a civil war broke out in 2011 in Turkey's southern neighbour.

  • The swamps, nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are one of the world's largest inland deltas and were declared...

    The UN classifies Iraq "as the fifth most vulnerable country in the world" to climate change, having already witnessed record low rainfall and high temperatures in recent years.

    An official said that tourists have returned, but one of the main visible sources of pollution in the area are visitors who throw away their "plastic waste".

  • Earlier this week Tehran academic Saeed Madani Ghahfarokhi was arrested on suspicion of "maintaining links abroad and carrying out activities...

    One of the accused, Kevyan Samimi, is a veteran dissident who served jail time both before and after the Islamic revolution of 1979.

    State news agency IRNA said women's rights and labor activist Narges Mansouri was also arrested again.

  • The MP Zoabi said: "Again and again the heads of the coalition have taken hawkish, rigid and right-wing stances regarding...

    Several opposition lawmakers, including Zoabi and members of the Arab Joint List, are bitterly opposed to the current opposition leader.

    Former PM Benjamin Netanyahu -- in office from 1996 to 1999, and again from 2009 until June 2021 -- is outspoken about his desire to topple the Bennett government.

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