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Monday: China announces inflation figures for November while Japan publishes its trade figures for October. India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh continues a visit to Russia. Tuesday: Australia’s central bank announces its interest rate decision and Malaysia publishes October industrial output data. Wednesday: The Central Economic Work Conference, the Chinese government’s annual economic policy meeting, begins

Show video info Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country after a stunning offensive by rebels who seized the capital city of Damascus and toppled the dynasty that had ruled for 50 years. Amid scenes of jubilation on Sunday, the rebels proclaimed that “the city of Damascus is free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad”

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Omnicom and Interpublic are in talks to merge in a deal worth more than $30bn that would create the world’s largest advertising agency and reshape the global marketing industry. The combined US group would probably

Iran had lost faith in now-deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad before his fall from power, according to analysts and insiders, and its foreign minister told him last week that a weakened Tehran could no longer send more forces to support his regime. When Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi visited Damascus last week, days after Syria’s

On Sunday morning, as gaunt detainees flooded out of Syrian regime prisons and jubilant Damascenes streamed into the presidential palace to root around among abandoned designer shopping bags, Bashar al-Assad was nowhere to be found. The only sign of the dynastic president, whose family had ruled Syria for half a century, was his ubiquitous portrait.

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump said he would not seek to remove Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell before his term expires in May 2026, but promised to push ahead with sweeping tariffs, mass deportations and tax

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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. Thirteen years after children scribbled anti-regime slogans in the southern city of Deraa, sparking the Syrian revolution, Bashar al-Assad and his kleptocratic family have fallen. The end of a dynasty that has brutalised and pillaged

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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. The Assad family has ruled Syria for more than 50 years. But fuelled by the perceived weakness of the government’s allies, rebel groups have achieved a lightning victory, forcing President Bashar al-Assad to flee. Here’s

Donald Trump said on Sunday that President Bashar al-Assad had left Syria, using the unfolding events in the Middle East to reiterate his calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine. “Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer. There

From his Mar-a-Lago estate, between rounds of golf and lavish banquets, Donald Trump has been firing off announcement after announcement to fill the top jobs in his second administration. Behind the scenes, top aides and future White House officials are charting out their first policy moves to make good on his campaign pledges to bring

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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. South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol will step back from state affairs, including conduct of the country’s diplomacy, prime minister Han Duck-soo announced on Sunday, as his cabinet seeks to negotiate an “orderly exit”. Yoon

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