Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson is joining GB News as a presenter, programme maker and commentator in a coup for the right-leaning broadcaster after a recent series of scandals and regulatory investigations. GB News,
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As Hamas militants stormed into the kibbutz of Nir Oz, Chaim Peri hid his wife behind a sofa and surrendered himself to the masked fighters. For more than a fortnight, the 79-year-old’s family had no idea if he was dead or alive. Then came word from Yocheved Lifshitz, a neighbour and one of two women
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sam Bankman-Fried admitted to making “a number of larger mistakes” when running his cryptocurrency exchange FTX but denied defrauding customers as he took the stand in front of a New York jury in his own
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is the author of several books on the City and Wall Street The abolition of a bankers’ bonus cap in the UK last week sets up a classic “heads we win, tails we
In 1978, the Cultural Revolution was over and all across China young people who had been ordered by Mao Zedong to labour in the countryside were making their way to the nation’s cities. Among the first students to enrol in Beijing’s prestigious Peking University was a young Li Keqiang, the future premier of China who
Christine Lagarde hands over a small white paper bag with something surprisingly heavy inside after sweeping through the restaurant with her customary assured elegance. Taking off her black leather gloves before shaking hands — there’s a slight chill on this overcast day in Frankfurt — she explains: “It is marmalade I made with grapefruits from
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If you are opening a restaurant that sells sirloin steaks for £760 each, you must pick your spot carefully. So Aragawa, a Japanese steakhouse that opened in Tokyo in 1967, has come to Clarges Street
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon will sell 1mn shares in the bank next year, the first time he has reduced his personal stake in the group since joining nearly two decades ago. At current market
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. NatWest shares plunged by the most since the Brexit vote after it cut its profit outlook for the year, adding to the bank’s problems on the day it published a highly anticipated report into its
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US military struck two facilities in eastern Syria that it identified as linked to Iranian-backed militias, defence secretary Lloyd Austin said, following more than a dozen attacks on American forces in
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. Janet Yellen has a plain and simple explanation for
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The history of Gaza is one of conflict and conquest that stretches back millennia. The 363 sq km strip of land changed hands between empires over many centuries, before becoming one of two Palestinian territories
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. If 18 months of rising interest rates from the Federal Reserve were supposed to put a chill on the world’s biggest economy, US consumers had another idea. New federal data on Thursday showed the US
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How much chaos can one company withstand before it becomes irreparably broken? It sometimes feels as though Elon Musk has been testing that question to the point of destruction since he paid $44bn for Twitter
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is editorial director and a columnist at Le Monde Donald Tusk returned to Brussels yesterday as “a proud Pole”, “a proud European” and Poland’s likely next prime minister, having unseated his country’s hard
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Li Keqiang, China’s former premier under President Xi Jinping, has died aged 68, state media reported on Friday. The senior Communist party official, who until March was the head of Xi’s cabinet and led economic
Events: A court hearing is scheduled for former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on charges of making the contents of a diplomatic cable public. The annual three-day Sichuan Agricultural Expo and the Agro-Chengdu show open in Chengdu, China. Economic data: Japan publishes October trade figures. Australia issues producer price index data for the
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accountancy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Payouts for UK partners at EY were trimmed to an average of £761,000 in the accountancy firm’s most recent financial year as a result of rising costs and the partnership increasing in size. Revenues in the
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Qatar sentenced eight Indian former naval officers to death on Thursday after finding them guilty of spying on the Gulf state’s submarine programme for Israel. The Indian government “expressed deep shock” at
Five men will play a key role in determining the course of Israel’s war with Hamas: they are the war cabinet set up by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oversee what is likely to be the biggest military operation the country has embarked on in years. Put together after Hamas launched the deadliest ever attack
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A few months ago, I found myself driving behind an autonomous (ie self-driving) vehicle in San Francisco. It was unnerving — but not because the AV was driving badly or dangerously; instead it was driving