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 European Union warned member states Monday to prepare for a possible complete breakdown in gas supplies from Russia, insisting...

    Germany's minister for economic affairs and climate Robert Habeck said Berlin would follow EU policy

    The anti-Russian measures will also target the country's largest bank, Sberbank, which will be excluded from the international SWIFT messaging system

  • The two countries are said to have discussed ways to ‘overcome’ the effects of US sanctions against both nations.

    Javad Owji's visit to Venezuela came just weeks after a visit by US officials in the midst of rising global oil prices

    In March, a US delegation held a meeting with Maduro, whose very legitimacy as president Washington disputes

  • Nigeria and Morocco are still securing funding for a huge pipeline project that aims to carry Nigeria's gas to North...

    OPEC member Nigeria has huge gas resources - the largest proven reserves in Africa and the seventh largest globally

    Fellow OPEC member Algeria, Africa's largest gas exporter, said recently it was ready to supply Europe with more gas

  • The United States has been warning that Russia is preparing to formally annex regions in Ukraine’s east, while the European...

    Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has meanwhile sparked outrage by alleging Adolf Hitler may have ‘had Jewish blood’

    This has invoked a conspiracy theory in a bid to discredit Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky — who is of Jewish ancestry

  • European Union ministers met Monday to respond to Russia cutting gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria -- and discuss plans...

    Energy ministers from 27 member states were coordinating efforts to counter what Brussels has branded the Kremlin's bid to "blackmail" the West with threatened energy shortages.

    The EU is also working on a phased ban on Russian oil imports, hoping to cut off funding for its war effort and assert energy independence from Moscow.

  • A former Saudi intelligence head has insisted that the kingdom should not be held responsible for the rising energy costs...

    Following the invasion of Ukraine, oil prices have dramatically surged in the market

    Amid the price hike, the Biden administration has been urging Saudi Arabia to increase its oil output, and it has placed a strain on the relationship between the two countries

  • Tunisian President Kais Saied has announced the launch of "national dialogue" to help resolve a political crisis following his controversial...

    Saied, a former law professor elected in 2019 amid public anger against the political class in the North African nation, sacked the government on July 25 last year

    In a speech late Sunday, Saied said a commission would manage "the national dialogue", a measure demanded repeatedly by the G7 nations and European Union

  • Iran said it had summoned Sweden's ambassador following a request by prosecutors in the Nordic country for life imprisonment for...

    The foreign ministry in Tehran late Sunday "strongly condemned" the arrest and trial of Hamid Noury, 61, as "illegal"

    Noury, who has been on trial in Stockholm since last August, faces charges including crimes against humanity

  • Police and protesters clashed in Turkey and France during May Day rallies on Sunday, as tens of thousands marched across...

    European rallies sparked the most controversy with Turkish protesters gathering at Istanbul's Taksim Square, an area synonymous with anti-government protests

    City officials said the group refused to disperse and 164 were detained, with government-approved rallies elsewhere in Turkey passing off peacefully

  • Qatar, which has been leading tense mediation between Chad’s military government and opposition rebels for six weeks, on Sunday called...

    More than 40 opposition groups and the military government have had delegations in Doha since March 13 when the preliminary talks officially opened

    Opposition groups are demanding that Deby rule himself out of the elections that the military leader has said will be held this year

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