Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Wars unite nations. The shock and horror of the Hamas attacks on Israel have brought a deeply divided country together. It is possible that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, may now form a national
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s conservative opposition won two decisive victories in regional elections on Sunday, while the three parties in chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition saw their share of their vote shrink in both states. But the day’s
The voice on the recording was calm and precise as it delivered a message of horror. “In light of the continuing crimes against our people, in light of the orgy of occupation and its denial of international laws and resolutions, and in light of American and western support, we’ve decided to put an end to
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Metro Bank myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. JPMorgan Chase studied a bid for Metro Bank before opting not to proceed, as the UK challenger bank seeks to shore up its balance sheet. The US banking group decided on Saturday night that it
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Credit cards myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A drop in credit card spending is raising concerns about the financial health of the US consumer and the outlook for holiday sales as cardholders face record-high interest charges. The fall in card spending comes
The last that relatives of paramedic Amit Maan, 22, heard from her was a desperate voice message on Saturday as she tried to take shelter from Hamas militants in the clinic of the Be’eri kibbutz in southern Israel. “Please make it stop, please make it stop . . . where is the army?” Maan pleaded as automatic weapon fire
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Labour Party UK myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned his party not to get “giddy” after its emphatic by-election win in Rutherglen as it maintains a 16-point lead ahead of the Conservatives with a general election
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel faced a “long and difficult war”, as its forces continued to wage gun battles with Palestinian militants on Sunday morning following the unprecedented multipronged attack by Hamas that stunned the
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Afghanistan myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Several hundred people have been killed in an earthquake in western Afghanistan, Taliban officials said, one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the isolated country in years. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck an area near Herat,
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said that she had spoken to Israeli president Isaac Herzog to convey her “full support”. “I reiterate that Israel has the right to self-defence,” she wrote on Twitter, formerly X. Von der Leyen added that she condemned “in the strongest possible terms, the senseless attack perpetrated against Israel
Bank of America, Barclays and other large banks that got stuck holding billions of dollars of leveraged loans in 2022 are sitting on the sidelines this year even as the buyout market revives. The group has become more reluctant to lead the financing for riskier buyouts, worried that the loans could get stuck on their
While the world’s richest banker lay bedridden in late 2019, dazed by the effects of heavy medication and suffering from resurgent brain tumours, a plot was allegedly unfolding to redraw his final wills. Joseph Safra, the Lebanese-Brazilian heir to a venerable line of financiers, was losing his grip on a $25bn global empire of banks,
If you haven’t heard that financial storyteller extraordinaire Michael Lewis has a new book out, on the rise and fall of crypto exchange FTX founder and alleged fraudster extraordinaire Sam Bankman-Fried, then you probably don’t spend an awful lot of time on the internet. Well done you. Those of you who do will know that
Italy’s departing central bank governor has urged prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government to soothe investors’ fears about the country’s debts by reducing its fiscal deficit and tackling reforms needed to boost growth. Ignazio Visco, who steps down at the end of this month after 12 years leading the Bank of Italy, told the Financial Times
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Uday Kotak myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. India must not let a handful of conglomerates “define its destiny”, the billionaire who founded one of the nation’s largest banks has warned, as he urged the country to aim for broader growth with many
It was a day that stunned Israel. Early on Saturday, as much of the country slept, Hamas militants launched a devastating multi-faceted attack from the Gaza Strip, firing thousands of rockets at Israeli towns and cities while hundreds of its fighters stormed into the country by land, air and sea. So deep was the disbelief
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Israel has fought multiple wars against Arab countries and Palestinian groups since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. Here is a timeline of the main conflicts. 1948 Arab Israeli war Fighting between Palestinians
Hamas’s brazen dawn assault began with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. Simultaneously, the Palestinian militant group dispatched armed drones, fighters on motorbikes and paragliders across the strip’s border, targeting civilian towns and military checkpoints. Images on social media showed Israeli civilians — who would have been sleeping or resting during the
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The White House and pro-Ukraine lawmakers are growing increasingly alarmed about the future of US funding for Kyiv in the wake of Kevin McCarthy’s ousting as speaker of the House of Representatives, which has
Sam Bankman-Fried’s tweets have come back to haunt him. As customers raced to withdraw their money from his embattled FTX cryptocurrency exchange nearly one year ago, Bankman-Fried tried to stop the run on the bank with a message to his more than 1mn followers: “FTX is fine. Assets are fine.” In testimony on Friday, FTX
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Metro Bank myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Metro Bank’s board members are due to meet a group of bondholders who proposed a £600mn capital injection earlier in the week, in the hope of securing a refinancing package for the UK lender over