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.
  • Amir Lazar, chief of Israeli air force operations, told reporters the drills "don't focus on Iran", but army officials have...

    Israel has held the "Blue Flag" exercises every two years since 2013 in the Negev desert

    Other nations taking part this year include France, the United States and Germany, as well as Britain

  • The royal couple's November 16-19 visit will start in Jordan, a UK ally whose King Abdullah II has come under...

    "Indeed, both visits will have a major focus on addressing the climate crisis," Fitzgerald, deputy private secretary to Prince Charles said

    In Cairo, Charles and Camilla are due to visit the top Sunni Islam cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Yayeb

  • Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced two initiatives to fund the "circular carbon economy" and provide "clean fuel" to help...

    The "circular carbon economy", a concept promoted by the Saudis, aims to remove and store carbon for reuse in other products.

    Saudi Arabia has said it would join a global effort to cut emissions of planet-warming methane gas by 30 percent by 2030.

  • The UN's blunt report comes as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the COP26 host, said he was "very worried" that...

    The World Meteorological Organization said that continued rising greenhouse gas emissions would result in more extreme weather.

    Concentrations of all three major greenhouses gases --CO2, methane and nitrous oxide--have risen alarmingly.

  • The UAE's Ministry of Economy has signed an agreement with LinkedIn for developing a framework for skills-based talent besides identifying,...

    The agreement is geared towards achieving UAE Strategy for Talent Attraction and Retention.

    LinkedIn will collaborate with the ministry’s team to make joint action plans supporting the ministry’s national strategies.

  • The reversal came after the United States and several of the other concerned countries issued identical statements saying they respected...

    The new Western statement "shows they have taken a step back from the slander against our country", Erdogan said.

    Erdogan had threatened the ambassadors on Thursday and then pronounced them "persona non grata" in televised comments on Saturday.

  • The competent authorities in the two countries will be able to develop specific procedures ensuring the unrestricted movement of vaccinated...

    The UAE and Israel have signed an MoU to recognize each other’s vaccination certificates

    The MoU is said to be part of the efforts of the two nations to emerge stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic

  • The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all agreed to normalize ties with Israel in 2020, as Washington under...

    Ali Khamenei said Arab nations have "sinned" in normalizing (their relations) with the "usurping and oppressive Zionist regime".

    Egypt and Jordan were until last year the only two Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel.

  • Saudi Arabia's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha has said that the best way to achieve...

    Al-Swaha says pursuing current policies and technologies will lead to a gap of 30-40 percent in the zero-emission goal.

    Saudi Arabia is taking the lead in building a center for climate technologies in the MENA region, he said.

  • Crashing through the Mediterranean waves at sunset, Palestinian fisherman Mohammed al-Nahal leads a convoy of rickety boats out for another...

    High prices of fuel in the enclave means that fishing operating costs are crippling, making them stay closer inshore

    Israel's navy fully controls the waters off Gaza's 40-kilometre (25-mile) long coastline, and regularly restricts or expands the size of the fishing zone

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