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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. European capitals are scrambling to avoid a clash with Middle Eastern powers over the Israel-Hamas war, sparked by a peace summit in Cairo on Saturday that risks exposing stark divisions over the conflict. Egypt’s president

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The name of Tamworth burst in on the public imagination in the late 1990s with the compelling tale of two small piglets of that breed who made a break for it, hoping to escape the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jim Jordan, the hardline Republican congressman from Ohio, was poised to lose a third vote to be Speaker of the House of Representatives on Friday, paralysing the lower chamber and raising doubts about Congress’s ability

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor It fell to Joe Biden to articulate publicly the private fears of many European leaders. National rage, the US president remarked after talks in Tel Aviv with Benjamin

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amira Yassin’s job as a journalist operating inside Gaza was hugely challenging even before Israel launched its bombardment of the territory nearly two weeks ago. Now it is fraught with danger, with the Al Hurra

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The long-awaited delivery of aid to the besieged Gaza Strip has been delayed by disagreements over how to ensure the supplies cannot be used by Hamas, according to three people familiar with the matter. US

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China has imposed export controls on graphite, a material used in electric vehicle batteries, as Beijing hits back at US-led restrictions on technology sales to Chinese companies. China, which dominates global supply chains for the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Canada has withdrawn dozens of diplomats from India after the countries failed to resolve a dispute related to Ottawa’s claims that New Delhi may have been involved in the murder of a Canadian citizen. Ottawa

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. By-elections are, primarily, a health check for political

Egypt will host a summit on Saturday to discuss “current developments and the future of the Palestinian cause and the peace process”, according to people briefed on the discussions. While a large number of leaders from the Middle East are expected to attend, many European capitals are unwilling to participate due to a push by

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Washington’s tightened export controls on chips may leave Chinese tech groups relying on outdated and stockpiled chips to pursue their artificial intelligence ambitions, with industry giants Alibaba and Baidu facing new hurdles for the manufacturing

People in Bar’am, a kibbutz about 300 metres from the Lebanese border, are accustomed to living close to a country that hosts the Iran-backed, anti-Israel militant group Hizbollah — close enough, as one resident said, to hear the sounds of mosques and “wave to people” on the other side. The community in the Galilee Heights,

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ and distinguished fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics On the afternoon of October 7, as the extent of the carnage in southern Israel

Tim Cook is not known for the theatrical flair that came naturally for Steve Jobs, the late Apple co-founder. But after 12 years as Apple’s chief executive, the softly spoken Alabama native appears to be discovering his inner Hollywood mogul. This weekend Apple will roll out acclaimed director Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Joe Biden urged Congress on Thursday to approve a security package for Israel and Ukraine worth tens of billions of dollars, saying America needed to overcome its domestic divisions to protect two vital allies

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Labour party has seized a previously safe Conservative party seat in England in an ominous blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a UK general election expected next year. Labour, Britain’s main opposition

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A closely watched UK consumer confidence survey has registered its biggest month-on-month drop in more than three years, as households contend with surging mortgage and rental costs, and higher petrol prices. The GfK consumer confidence

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI is in talks with investors about selling shares at a valuation of $86bn, roughly three times what it was worth six months ago, as advances in artificial intelligence transform the market’s appetite for the

Labour candidate Sarah Edwards won the Tamworth by-election with 11,719 votes © Andrew Fox/FT The Labour party has seized the safe Conservative party seat of Tamworth, in a blow to prime minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a UK general election expected next year. Sarah Edwards, the candidate for Britain’s main opposition party Labour, won the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A US warship deployed to the Middle East shot down three cruise missiles and several drones fired by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen that may have been aimed at targets in Israel, the Pentagon has said.

Donors are withdrawing millions of dollars in planned funding to punish US universities for their responses to Hamas’ attack on Israel, in a stand-off over free speech, higher education funding and academic leaders’ public responsibilities. Billionaire benefactors including Apollo Global Management’s Marc Rowan and Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner have called for stronger condemnation of