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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US House of Representatives remained without a Speaker late Wednesday, after Jim Jordan failed in his second attempt to seize the gavel in the face of opposition from 22 members of his
The explosion that ripped through the car park of the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza on Tuesday evening, killing a large number of the civilians sheltering there, is already seared into the mind of Samer Tarzi. The 50 year-old was one of the volunteers who combed the bloodstained parking lot for human remains the day
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. India’s main opposition party has called for an investigation of the country’s Adani Group over allegations reported by the Financial Times that the conglomerate appeared to have inflated the cost of imported coal. Rahul Gandhi,
The generous way to read today’s Republican party is that it wants to kill a dragon that can no longer be tamed. The dragon is the US federal government; the Republican weapons of choice are shutdowns and debt defaults. A less generous take is that Republicans are members of a personality cult that aims to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Morgan Stanley has reported a 9 per cent fall in third-quarter profits, as slower growth at the Wall Street bank’s juggernaut wealth management business was compounded by falling revenues in investment banking and trading. The
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in Adidas rose 5 per cent on Wednesday after the company raised its full-year guidance for the second time in three months, indicating that the brand is recovering from its worst crisis in three
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation held steady in September at 6.7 per cent, maintaining pressure on the Bank of England to hold firm in its efforts to curb price growth. The rate of consumer price inflation had been
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US president Joe Biden landed in Israel on Wednesday amid a storm of recriminations over an explosion at a hospital in Gaza that, according to Palestinian officials, killed hundreds of people and inflamed tensions in
The IDF said that a misfired rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Gaza-based militant group, is responsible for the explosion at a hospital in the strip that Palestinian authorities said has killed “hundreds”. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said an IDF probe concluded that a rocket launched from a cemetery near the hospital just prior
Joe Biden was betting that a whirlwind visit to the Middle East this week could help prevent the conflict between Israel and Gaza from spreading across the region, temper its ally’s response to the Hamas attacks and soothe fears in Arab capitals of a widening conflagration. It was a diplomatic mission fraught with risk, and
Western support for Israel’s assault on Gaza has poisoned efforts to build consensus with significant developing countries on condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine, officials and diplomats have warned. The reaction to the October 7 attack on Israel by Islamist militant group Hamas and to Israel’s vow to hit back against Gaza has undone months of
When Hamas released a clip of Mia Shem, the first video it has published of any of the dozens of hostages its militants took when they rampaged through southern Israel last week, the sign of life brought a slim ray of hope for her family that she might yet come back. But for relatives of
Lockheed Martin executives are “optimistic” about the US providing additional funding for several geopolitical hotspots as Congress is embroiled in fights over the House speakership and the domestic budget. In any budget scenario, “there continues to be the option for supplemental requests related to support Ukraine, Israel and potentially Taiwan,” chief executive Jim Taiclet told
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gaza’s health ministry said hundreds of people had been killed after an Israeli strike hit an outdoor area attached to a hospital in the besieged Palestinian territory. The Palestinian health ministry, which is run by
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jim Jordan lost a vote to become Speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, after 20 members of his own party voted against the firebrand Ohio Republican and staunch Donald Trump loyalist. Earlier,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A former president of the UK’s Supreme Court and seven other eminent lawyers have urged Israel to remember its obligations under international law, saying they had “significant concern” about aspects of its actions in Gaza.
We write as Jews, many of us with family and friends directly affected by the tragedy that has befallen Israel. Like so many others, the vile crimes perpetrated by Hamas in Israel have shaken us to our core. We also write in our capacity as lawyers. We do so because, instilled with our Jewish values,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is vice-president and director of the Foreign Policy programme at the Brookings Institution and an Iran specialist Hamas’ attack on Israel has reignited the volatile conflict between the Jewish state and the Palestinians and
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Viktor Orbán has become the first western leader to meet Vladimir Putin since the International Criminal Court indicted the Russian president for alleged war crimes, in what the Hungarian prime minister said was a bid
In normal circumstances, the Conservative party should easily win Thursday’s by-election in Mid Bedfordshire, a well-heeled rural seat that delivered it a majority of almost 25,000 at the last general election. Instead the Tories, trailing badly in national opinion polls, are locked in an occasionally acrimonious three-way by-election fight; Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s party is