Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is braced for a testing cross-examination on Monday when he makes his first appearance before the UK’s official inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic. The inquiry has heard damning testimonies in recent weeks, which have exposed chaos at the heart of the government as it struggled to respond to the rapid spread
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Javier Milei, a maverick libertarian economist, has promised deep cuts in spending after being sworn in as president of Argentina, saying that only radical change can pull the South American nation out of its worst
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is the sort of extravagant territorial claim that makes authoritarian leaders salivate. A demand to annex two-thirds of a much smaller neighbour’s territory, supposedly to right a historical injustice. Access to a rich offshore
It was a riveting image: the presidents of three of the world’s most elite universities — Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — seated together at a witness table. All were women; one black and one Jewish. They were the star witnesses at a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. Within
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Uefa is seeking changes to its rule book that would open the door for its president Aleksander Ceferin to extend his stay at the top of European football’s governing body beyond the 12-year limit he
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Saudi Arabia is obstructing the UN’s flagship climate negotiations and pressuring their presidency, the United Arab Emirates, in a bid to shift the focus away from oil and gas producing nations, according to several people
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Splits within the UK Conservative party deepened on Sunday ahead of a crunch vote on legislation aimed at salvaging plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, with the former immigration minister saying it was “weak”
On two occasions in the past month, continental Europeans have asked me whether the UK will rejoin the EU. Not for many decades, if ever, I replied. This is so despite the shift in British opinion over the wisdom of Brexit. If the electorate had known in 2016 what it knows today it would have
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government is set to outline plans for a financial package to steady Northern Ireland’s public finances at a meeting with political parties on Monday, despite the lack of a deal to restore the
The Astro Sculptor oil tanker was already showing its age in February 2020 when inspectors reported problems with corroded decks and propulsion machinery on the then 17-year-old Greek-run ship. But nearly four years later the vessel is still ploughing the oceans — part of the “shadow fleet” of secretively run tankers assembled by the Kremlin
There is an acrid smell even before the world’s largest coal-to-liquid refinery emerges out of the South African highveld. The Secunda mines-to-refining complex is the world’s largest carbon emitter by volume. The plant, owned by South Africa’s biggest chemical company Sasol, emits more carbon dioxide than Portugal. The 40-year-old refinery in the heart of South
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Highly indebted developing countries need all the money they can get to support their climate transition and adaptation needs. With advanced economies behind on their funding pledges too, market-based solutions offer a supplementary source of
It began as the EU’s biggest graft scandal in decades, with high-profile arrests, startling revelations and the seizure of €1.5mn in cash. But one year on, the European parliament’s so-called Qatargate affair is bogged down in legal counter-probes that have called into question the Belgian authorities’ management of the case and delayed any potential trial.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China is making an aggressive push to tie up global uranium supply amid a worldwide rush to secure nuclear fuel, warned the boss of Yellow Cake, a London-listed investment vehicle for the radioactive commodity. André
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s state health insurance system has lost tens of millions of subscribers, as higher costs have put one of the world’s largest healthcare schemes out of reach for many people already struggling in a post-pandemic
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elizabeth Magill has resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania, days after her testimony at a Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism drew a widespread rebuke and focused international attention on the failings of America’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s national security adviser has warned that Israel “can no longer accept” the presence of Hizbollah forces on its northern border, and said it will have to “act” if they continue to pose a threat.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US has invoked national security to approve a sale to Israel of more than $100mn in tank ammunition in a move that bypasses Congress, which has struggled to approve bills providing more
Javier Milei is pledging rapid reforms to halt Argentina’s decline as he takes the reins of a country in a deep economic crisis three weeks after winning the presidency with an insurgent anti-establishment campaign. Argentina’s markets have rallied since the election in response to a pragmatic shift from Milei, a first-term congressman who only founded
During their swift takeover of Gaza in 2007, Hamas militants from the group’s Khan Younis stronghold sped northward up the central Salah ad-Din Road, heading to Gaza City. They met little resistance from the western-backed forces of the Palestinian Authority. “They looked left and right, no one was there, so they just kept going” towards
In March Isaac Levido, the Conservative party’s campaign supremo, issued a warning about the dangers of a lack of discipline to Tory MPs gathered for a pep talk at a five-star country hotel near Windsor. With a general election coming into view, the Australian strategist told the MPs to look around the room. “Isaac said,