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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. 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
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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. 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”
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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
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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
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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. 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
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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. 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
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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. 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
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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
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