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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russian forces are heading towards Ukraine’s Dnipro region, bypassing an anticipated heavy urban battle in the eastern Donetsk area. Ukraine has been preparing for urban warfare in Pokrovsk, a key logistics and transport hub

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s City minister Tulip Siddiq is under renewed pressure to step down, with the leader of the opposition calling for her to be fired after she became embroiled in a property scandal tied to

Ole Jørgen Hammeken was at sea far inside the Arctic Circle when the Inuit elder found a crumpled old business card in the pocket of his sealskin coat that had survived almost a decade of blizzards and storms. It belonged to Donald Trump Jr. The younger Trump had met Hammeken in 2016, hoping the Greenland

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’ve been sceptical that artificial intelligence will radically remake labour markets in the short term, in part because so much hype comes from the tech industry itself. But in the last couple of months, I’ve

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Baby boomers and users of weight loss drugs suffering from “facial sagging” are flocking to injectable aesthetic treatments and boosting sales, according to dermatology group Galderma.  The Swiss company, which was spun out from Nestlé

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first trial stemming from a wave of UK class action antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech is due to start on Monday as Apple faces a £1.5bn legal claim it levies “excessive and unfair” charges

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financials myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Private equity groups ramped up activity in Europe last year, taking advantage of the continent’s economic woes to snap up big companies at depressed valuations. The total value of European buyout deals worth more than $1bn

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US hedge fund boss Boaz Weinstein has said he wants to be a “white knight” for UK investors and the London stock market by buying into the £266bn investment trust sector. The founder of New

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The price of fuel for nuclear reactors has surged to a record high as demand from artificial intelligence data centres exacerbates a squeeze on the market following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prices for enriched uranium

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves has vowed to act if her fiscal plans are blown off course by turmoil in the gilt market, as she announced a deal with China intended to boost Britain’s stagnating economy. The UK

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” is the important question posed by the Roman poet Juvenal, translated by the English author Alan Moore as “Who watches the watchmen?”. But it is perhaps a question with a complacent implicit assumption. It presupposes that it is possible to watch the watchmen — and all that one needs to do

Early this May, an airline pilot, two entrepreneurs and a government minister will wait for the call to mobilise. The British group’s gear will already be at Everest base camp alongside Lukas Furtenbach, an Austrian mountain guide. As soon as he declares that a weather window is about to open, his clients will dash to

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Waiting for the Tube, I see a poster for an upmarket gym chain. Locations? “City of London. High Street Kensington. Dubai.” What a shame to choose a setting that is so disfigured with bad

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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 The IMF has warned that jitters surrounding Donald Trump’s threat to impose trade tariffs were driving up longer-term borrowing costs and would add to pressures facing the global economy in 2025. Speaking to

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 drawing up fresh growth initiatives in an effort to avoid “disastrous” tax increases after a punishing week in the markets that threatens to derail its policy agenda. UK borrowing costs climbed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The wealthy are accustomed to choosing private healthcare and private schooling, but now private divorce is an option too. Thanks to intense delays in waiting for court appointments and unwanted publicity once they get them,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chair of a cross-party group of MPs has written to the heads of the UK’s financial watchdog and the London stock exchange to raise concerns about fast-fashion group Shein ahead of its planned IPO.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When bond markets get sticky, it is unhelpful to be the ugliest horse in the glue factory. Sadly, that is the role now performed by the UK. It has been a grim start to the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US Supreme Court justices appeared sceptical about TikTok’s efforts to throw out a federal “divest-or-ban” law on Friday, as the social media platform warned it could “go dark” in one of its biggest

Sir Keir Starmer met a senior member of Bangladesh’s ousted ruling party last month, despite the Awami League facing accusations of embezzlement and of allowing its security forces to kill protesters. The UK prime minister met Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, the ousted mayor of the city of Sylhet and a key party figure, at a dinner held