Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Palestinian Authority will be forced to “stop and reconsider everything” it does in as little as two to three weeks if Israel continues to withhold its revenues, the Palestinian finance minister has warned. Under
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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. Three Lebanese civilians were killed on Wednesday as Israel retaliated with air strikes for a suspected Hizbollah rocket barrage that had earlier killed an Israeli soldier and injured several others. A woman and her two
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thousands of Porsche, Bentley and Audi cars have been impounded in US ports after a supplier to parent group Volkswagen found a Chinese subcomponent in the vehicles that breached anti-forced labour laws. According to two
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Volkswagen has responded to fresh allegations of having benefited from forced labour in Xinjiang by announcing talks with its Chinese joint venture partner over “the future direction of business” in the region. The short statement
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Here is one measure of America’s democratic pickle. The third-party candidates lining up to challenge the creaking two-party stranglehold are almost the same age as the incumbents. Joe Biden is 81. Donald Trump
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK house prices myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK house prices fell in the second half of 2023 driven by weakness in the London market, according to official data, underscoring the continuing pressure of higher borrowing costs. Average UK house prices decreased
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military has ordered thousands of people taking refuge in Gaza’s last big medical facility to leave after weeks of fighting around Nasser hospital brought Israeli troops to its gates. Hundreds of displaced Palestinians
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s Conservatives have always had a complex relationship with civil liberties. On the one hand they talk loudly about individual freedom and rail against the nanny state. On the other, they cheerfully wave through intrusive
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation stayed steady at 4 per cent in January, undershooting expectations and bolstering hopes that the Bank of England will soon feel it has enough evidence of price pressures easing to cut interest rates.
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Joe Biden has urged the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives to bring a sweeping $95bn national security bill that includes some $60bn of military aid for Ukraine to a vote “immediately”. The bill passed the Senate early on Tuesday. But the measure, which also includes billions in aid for Israel and Taiwan as
The aid shipment that could have fed more than 1mn Palestinians for a month languished at the Israeli port of Ashdod for weeks. Then Israeli authorities said the desperately needed supplies could not be released. The shipment of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar and cooking oil, donated by Turkey, is one of many consignments facing blockages
Holzdorf military base was once the pride of Communist East Germany, a strategic linchpin for the Warsaw Pact countries who opposed Nato. Now it is being remade as one of the west’s biggest bulwarks against Russia. The base’s runway is being expanded, so any plane in the Nato arsenal can land there. Soon it will
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a chief executive asks for trillions, not billions, when raising funds you know a sector may be getting a bit too hot. In the long run, generative artificial intelligence will transform many industries and
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. How many people do you think would be willing to give away 1 per cent of their household income every month to fight global warming? Here’s a clue: it’s not 20 per cent or 40
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The billionaire British co-owners of supermarket Asda borrowed millions more from their petrol station company EG Group to repay debt they took on to buy two private jets. EG lent Mohsin and Zuber Issa’s personal
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares of Lyft soared more than 60 per cent on Tuesday before falling back sharply, after an error in the ride-hailing company’s quarterly earnings release exaggerated the outlook for margin growth in 2024 by 10
Instacart is laying off 7 per cent of its workforce as part of a restructuring effort, the food delivery group said on Tuesday as it boosted its share buyback programme to $1bn. The company said the cuts would affect about 250 people. Separately, three executives — Instacart’s chief operating officer Asha Sharma, chief technology officer
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A high-profile shareholder in Abrdn dumped the stock after losing faith in management’s ability to turn the flagging UK asset manager around, adding to pressure on chief executive Stephen Bird. US investment firm Harris Associates,
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Joe Biden sharply rebuked Donald Trump for saying he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies that did not spend enough on defence, as the US president pleaded for Republicans in Congress to pass