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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter over convictions on gun and tax charges in an extraordinary reversal of his promise not to use executive powers to benefit his son just months before

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syrian rebel fighters said they were pressing southward after taking over most of the country’s second city Aleppo, including its international airport, in a lightning assault that poses the biggest challenge in years to Bashar

Staring at the enormous mound of rubble that used to be her home, Mariam Hosni clutched her daughter’s hand, which gripped a picture of Hizbollah’s venerated former leader Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated by Israel as it escalated its offensive two months ago. The Hosnis’ building in Beirut’s southern suburbs was levelled in the fierce Israeli bombardment

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rebel forces have swept into Syria’s second city Aleppo after mounting a lightning offensive that poses the biggest threat to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the simmering years-long civil conflict.  Images circulated on Friday night on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ireland’s nationalist Sinn Féin party overtook its political rivals to win 21.1 per cent in Friday’s general election, according to an exit poll, in a photo finish to a tight race. The conservative Fine Gael

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s MPs have voted to legalise assisted dying after an emotional and momentous House of Commons debate, heralding one of the biggest social changes the country has seen in decades. The vote to change the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Legal migration to some of the world’s richest countries reached an all-time high in 2023, sparking a voter backlash against governments despite the trend boosting growth and job creation. Roughly 6.5mn people moved

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Net immigration to the UK exceeded 900,000 for the year to June 2023, the highest annual total on record and much more than previously thought, according to official figures issued on Thursday. The revised Office

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BlackRock has a handshake deal to buy HPS Investment Partners, as the world’s largest asset manager looks to bolster its alternative investment business with the addition of one of the biggest private credit groups on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French sovereign bonds and stocks fell on Wednesday as concerns intensified among investors that a dispute over a belt-tightening draft budget could bring down Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government. The sell-off pushed the gap between 10-year French

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans for a ceasefire with Hizbollah, raising hopes of an end to the year-long hostilities between Israeli forces and the Lebanese militant group. In a pre-recorded television address

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum hinted at retaliation over US president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on her nation’s exports on Tuesday as the peso slid against the dollar. Trump vowed on Monday night to

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has said he will levy tariffs of 25 per cent on all US imports from Canada and Mexico, and an extra 10 per cent tariff on Chinese goods, in retaliation for

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US dollar weakened and Treasuries rallied on Monday as the nomination of Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary eased investor fears over president-elect Donald Trump’s trade tariff plans. The dollar index, which tracks a basket

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s national technology champion Huawei is poised to launch its first flagship phone that can run its own apps on a fully homegrown operating system, in the latest sign of how technology is splintering into

Russia’s armed forces have recruited hundreds of Yemeni men to fight in Ukraine, brought by a shadowy trafficking operation that highlights the growing links between Moscow and the Houthi rebel group. Yemeni recruits who travelled to Russia told the Financial Times they were promised high salaried employment and even Russian citizenship. When they arrived with

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Funds managed by Goldman Sachs will write off almost $900mn after Swedish battery maker Northvolt filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week.  Goldman’s private equity funds have at least $896mn in exposure to Northvolt, making

Scott Bessent sat directly to Donald Trump’s left as the then presidential candidate laid out his economic agenda to a roomful of Wall Street bigwigs at the Economic Club of New York in September.  Following his nomination to the top job at the US Treasury department, Bessent will now move into the spotlight as the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has picked Scott Bessent to be his US Treasury secretary, nominating one of his biggest financial backers as the top economic official of his second administration, according to five people familiar

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Northvolt’s chief executive has resigned a day after Europe’s big battery hope filed for bankruptcy in the US. Peter Carlsson took responsibility for the dramatic collapse during a town-hall meeting with employees on Friday morning,