Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All but one of the hospitals in the north of Gaza have stopped functioning, according to the UN, as Israel’s war against Hamas deepens a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave. Hospitals in Gaza have
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK wage growth eased slightly in the three months to September as hiring slowed while the number of payrolled employees continued to rise, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday. Average annual growth in
It took just a day after Hamas’s devastating attack on Israel for the US to deliver a muscular display of military support for the Jewish state — and a message of warning to its regional foes. In what US defence secretary Lloyd Austin described as steps to “bolster regional deterrence efforts”, Washington announced it was
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Russian business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US-led price cap on Russia’s oil sales is being almost completely circumvented, according to western officials and Russian export data, forcing countries to explore ways to reinforce one of their key economic
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The incoming chair of the international certification scheme for conflict diamonds has hit out at a plan by the G7 group of developed nations to track and trace Russian diamonds, warning of “irreparable harm” to
In July 2015, it seemed like Barclays had reached a nadir. New chair John McFarlane had just brutally fired the bank’s chief executive Antony Jenkins, after a bruising boardroom showdown over his proposed reforms at the genteel Lucknam Park country house hotel in Wiltshire. Anxious staff gathered in Barclays Canary Wharf headquarters for an impromptu
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former governor of the Palestine Monetary Authority and ex-director of the Middle East and Central Asia department at the IMF The horrific scenes on October 7, when Hamas attacked towns in
Rishi Sunak has chosen as his top diplomat a man who was the accidental midwife of Brexit and then had a starring role in the biggest British lobbying scandal in recent years. David Cameron’s return to front-line politics as foreign secretary comes after seven years in the wilderness that started with his resignation as prime
Events: US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and South Korean defence minister Shin Won-sik hold the inaugural ministerial-level meeting in Seoul with the UN Command, the multinational military force established during the Korean war. Joseph Li, the state-appointed Catholic archbishop of Beijing, begins a five-day trip to Hong Kong. Taiwan’s Central Election Commission decides if Foxconn
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Singapore’s GIC, one of the world’s largest institutional investors, has advised “doubling down” on Big Tech rather than overvalued start-ups in the booming generative artificial intelligence sector. Lim Chow Kiat, chief executive of the $700bn
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s cabinet reshuffle is the latest spin of an increasingly frenetic merry-go-round of the great offices of state since the Brexit referendum. The churn rate of the four top positions in government
Perched in a former leather workshop overlooking the Jialing River in China’s mountainous western metropolis of Chongqing, the Flying Tigers Museum retells what is still a high point in US-China relations. Here the story of the US and Chinese pilots who together defended China’s Nationalist government against the Japanese during the second world war is
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Just six weeks ago, Rishi Sunak proclaimed himself to be a “change” prime minister who would break with 30 years of failed consensus. Now he is bringing back as foreign secretary a man who was
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Airlines myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Middle Eastern airlines have placed orders worth tens of billions of dollars for more than 100 aircraft on the opening day of the Dubai air show, underscoring the rebound in the aviation industry even as regional
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This week Rishi Sunak is mainly defying the Tory right. With Jeremy Hunt as chancellor, James Cleverly newly installed as home secretary and David Cameron’s surprise return as foreign secretary, the top three jobs in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak used the word “change” 30 times in his speech to the Conservative party conference last month, as he vowed to break from the failures of the past and the “30-year status quo”. The
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Joe Biden is not just an old guy. He is also a representative of an old idea — one that dates back to the 1940s. The US president believes that his nation and the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman, the controversial home secretary, after she defied the prime minister’s authority last week, as the he launched a major reshuffle of his top team. In further developments on Monday
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gaza’s largest hospital has “ceased to function” after running out of fuel and being surrounded by Israeli troops, with air strikes and gunfire making it impossible for civilians to escape. Al-Shifa hospital, in the heart
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British Land rebuffed an alternative tenant to replace Meta on a major London office lease in favour of trying to re-let the space itself at higher rents, underscoring confidence in top-tier offices from one of
The sacking of Braverman will anger some rightwingers given her role as a standard-bearer for that wing of the Conservative party. The Daily Mail, a rightwing popular newspaper, ran a front-page headline last week warning: “Come for Suella and you come for us all.” Rory Stewart, a moderate former Tory cabinet minister, said Rishi Sunak