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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. Iran said two “terrorist attacks” killed more than 100 people near a commander’s grave on Wednesday, according to reports by state media. Two explosions in the southern city of Kerman hit crowds gathering to commemorate

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Conservative party’s biggest problem, at the start of a year in which the prime minister must call a general election, is one of maladaptation. Or, at least, that’s the biggest problem the party can

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A potential drug offers rare promise in the fight against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” after it successfully targeted a bacterium that causes life-threatening infections in hospital patients, research has shown. Superbugs have emerged as a leading health

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lex features the FTSE 100 index, or at least its constituents, on an almost daily basis. Awkwardly, it was not always that way.  When it was born 40 years ago, the index that would help

Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri knew his days were numbered. “It’s not unusual for the commanders and officers to be martyred,” the militant group’s deputy political leader said last year when asked about Israeli threats to assassinate him. “I think I’ve lived too long.” Beirut-based Arouri on Tuesday became the most senior Hamas casualty of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In every quarter of the past fiscal year, Apple has reported a decline in sales. It is the company’s longest losing streak in decades. Add to that a dawdling approach to generative artificial intelligence and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK gambling group Entain has appointed the head of one of its largest activist investors to its board, weeks after the company’s former chief executive quit following a backlash over a slumping share price. London-listed

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The EU has added Russia’s Alrosa, the world’s largest diamond-mining company by output and its chief executive Pavel Marinichev to its sanctions list in response to Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine. The designation announced

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eurostar has been rebuked by the UK’s advertising watchdog for “misleading” customers over how many cheap seats were available during a sale. The Advertising Standards Authority on Wednesday said a Eurostar promotional email promising £39

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK grocery price inflation fell at the fastest pace on record in December, according to data from research company Kantar, the latest evidence of a significant retreat in price growth in Britain. Grocery price annual

There will be no fanfare outside the polling booth. Posterity may never know the voter’s name. But early on the morning of January 7, a Bangladeshi will cast the first vote in their country’s fraught national elections and set in motion the most intense and cacophonous 12 months of democracy the world has seen since

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. There is a fair chance that by the time the trees come into leaf in Washington, Frankfurt and London, this decade’s inflation crisis will definitively be over. The eye of the storm has already passed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US companies have been piling into the market for convertible bonds as they search for ways to keep their interest costs down, in a rare flurry of activity in otherwise subdued corporate fundraising markets. Issuance

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than two-thirds of a UK government fund aimed at unlocking hundreds of thousands of new homes in England remains unspent more than six years after its launch, despite the chronic shortage of housing. The

US stocks declined in the first session of the year, while Treasury yields surged as traders moderated expectations for interest rate cuts. The benchmark S&P 500 fell 0.6 per cent, dragged down by tech stocks. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 1.6 per cent, notching its worst daily fall since late October. Yields on the rate-sensitive

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has sued to reinstate his name to Maine’s presidential primary ballot, after its secretary of state said the former president was disqualified from holding higher office because of his role in the January

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US Senator Bob Menendez accepted bribes to take actions favourable to Qatar, federal prosecutors alleged on Tuesday, as they added new detail to the corruption case against the New Jersey Democrat. The 70-year-old, who served

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the biggest investors in Thames Water has slashed the value of its stake by nearly two-thirds, intensifying doubts over the financial health of the UK’s largest water distributor. The Universities Superannuation Scheme, a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A senior Hamas leader has been killed in an explosion at one of the group’s offices in Beirut, an attack that Lebanon blamed on an Israeli drone strike.  Hizbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant movement, told

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Grey gloom” is not the front-page headline many Britons would have wanted to read at the start of the new year. But the phrase sums up the economic mood according to the Financial Times’s annual

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University after her widely criticised appearance at a congressional hearing plunged the elite institution into a bitter national debate on campus antisemitism and prompted scrutiny of plagiarism allegations