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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. Hours after spurning a US-led proposal for a 21-day truce with Hizbollah in September, Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that he was changing the balance of power in the region for years to come. Israel’s prime minister

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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. Russian anti-aircraft fire may have caused a plane to crash in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, according to defence experts and officials in the region. The Azerbaijan Airlines flight was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku

In labor news, Amazon is facing accusations it attempted to flood the picket line of striking workers in Queens, New York. On Saturday, water began gushing from an Amazon building close to where striking workers had gathered. One Amazon driver compared the flow of water from the building to a fire hydrant on full blast.

Elon Musk urged his supporters not to donate to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia after the organization budgeted more than $50 million to spend on controversial diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority,” Musk wrote Tuesday on X, where he has nearly 210 million

The president of Nippon Steel said he is seeing support in Rust Belt communities for the Japanese company’s proposed $15 billion takeover of US Steel — a deal opposed by both President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump. Tadashi Imai told reporters on Wednesday that his company has made an effort to assuage skeptics who

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have reportedly abducted about 100 Palestinians in raids over the past day. This comes as Palestinian Authority forces are clashing again with Palestinian militants in the Jenin refugee camp. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports Palestinian police have been firing rocket-propelled grenades at armed Palestinian fighters in Jenin, where

There is new culinary talent in Aspen away from the slopes this season — and they’re serving up fare that isn’t the pasta or sushi usually found on menus in the luxury haven. Cederic Vongerichten, son of Michelin-starred top chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and his spouse, Ochi, launched Wayan Aspen this month. The Aspen outpost — which had

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has said its membership has overtaken the Conservatives for the first time, in a sign of growing momentum for the populist upstart that has just five MPs in parliament. Reform

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Finnish authorities are investigating an oil tanker that is part of Russia’s shadow fleet over whether it cut an electricity cable between Finland and Estonia. The Eagle S was stopped by Finnish authorities after the

The president of Nippon Steel said he is seeing support in Rust Belt communities for the Japanese company’s proposed $15 billion takeover of US Steel — a deal opposed by both President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump. Tadashi Imai told reporters on Wednesday that his company has made an effort to assuage skeptics who

A celebrity-backed chain of Manhattan nail salons — which raised alarms after The Post exclusively reported about its failure to pay rent — has filed for bankruptcy, according to a court filing. Glosslab — which had raised $20 million from investors that included model Olivia Culpo, musicians in The Chainsmokers, retired Knicks star Amar’e Stoudemire

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission reportedly took a shot across the bow at Disney CEO Bob Iger and the Mouse House-owned ABC News over the “erosion in public trust” when it comes to the news media. Incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr fired off a letter to Iger on Monday —

Elon Musk urged his supporters not to donate to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia after the organization budgeted more than $50 million to spend on controversial diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority,” Musk wrote Tuesday on X, where he has nearly 210 million

“Human intelligence,” the cultural critic Neil Postman once wrote, “is among the most fragile things in nature. It doesn’t take much to distract it, suppress it, or even annihilate it.” The year was 1988, a former Hollywood actor was in the White House, and Postman was worried about the ascendancy of pictures over words in