The leak of classified US and Nato documents on Ukraine’s military and its much-anticipated spring counter-offensive is part of a Russian information operation and does not reveal Kyiv’s actual operational plans, a top adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. The documents, seen by the Financial Times, are around five weeks old and appear to
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If you’re a food lover in the UK, you can’t really escape Yotam Ottolenghi. If you’ve been to a dinner party at any point since his eponymous cookbook debuted in 2008, you’ll probably have eaten his food. You would have asked your host what was being served, and you’d have received a single-word answer: “Ottolenghi”.
Northern Ireland’s police have warned of the risk of terror attacks on their officers as US president Joe Biden and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak prepare to visit Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the region’s landmark peace deal. Biden and Sunak are expected to celebrate the Good Friday Agreement, which was signed on
Israeli jets bombed targets linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, after militants in the two territories fired a volley of rockets at Israel. Israel’s military said it hit several targets, including tunnels and weapons manufacturing sites, in the blockaded coastal strip in the early hours of Friday
A British business registered to a terraced house in a north London suburb appears to have arranged the sale of about $1.2bn of electronics into Russia since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine at the start of 2022. Mykines Corporation LLP, a company based in the London borough of Enfield, is listed in Russian records
The writer is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter In response to America’s Inflation Reduction Act, Europe is scrambling to accelerate its own green industrial policy. Some, like Pascal Lamy, former director-general of the World Trade Organization and associate of Emmanuel Macron, would like to see Europe leading a green free-trading bloc
LetterOne, the investment group backed by Russian oligarchs who are under sanctions, has launched a legal challenge to overturn the decision taken by the UK government on national security grounds to force the sale of its broadband business Upp. The claim for a judicial review will be a test for the UK’s National Security and
An army marches on its stomach, Napoleon is supposed to have said, and to ensure that some of Ukraine’s finest soldiers can do just that, Zhenya Mykhailenko is cooking up a storm. At a clandestine kitchen near the front line, five special forces soldiers gathered around a fridge packed with freshly prepared meals. They wore
When we lose God, what should we do? Go shopping? Easter seems like a good time to ponder this question. The decline of organised religion in the west is one of the most striking trends of our age. But it leaves a gap. I will be going to church this Sunday, despite not believing in
Mention “fabulous Fab” in markets circles these days, and you’ll show your age. Probably only those on the far side of their mid-30s recall the Goldman Sachs banker whose jokey email came to epitomise Wall Street’s poor behaviour in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Fab is back — or rather, the regulations inspired
BlackRock has started paying back investors stuck in its £3.5bn UK Property fund since early last year, even as outflows from commercial real estate funds continue and regulators warn that some funds may struggle to meet redemption requests. The US-based fund group has begun partially repaying institutional investors who made withdrawal requests as far back
Auditors who think robust regulation of their sector is disproportionate deserve “the world’s smallest violin,” the head of the UK accounting watchdog has said. Sir Jon Thompson, chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council, told a private industry meeting earlier this year that close scrutiny was appropriate for auditors who earn hundreds of thousands of
Israeli fighter jets bombed the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Friday, amid a sharp escalation of violence after militants in Lebanon and Gaza fired a volley of rockets at Israel. The Israeli military said that it had hit four targets — including two weapons manufacturing sites and two tunnels — belonging to the
Jes Staley’s lawyer has described “slanderous” allegations that he aided and abetted Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes as “baseless but serious”, after the executive was sued by his former employer JPMorgan Chase. Brendan Sullivan, who is representing Staley, asked a federal judge in New York for more time to review tens of thousands of documents relating to
Bank of America has cut short an online client conference on geopolitics and apologised to attendees after some balked at what they saw as pro-Russian comments about the war in Ukraine, according to three people who attended the event. The conference was designed as a two-day event beginning on Tuesday, but BofA Securities cancelled three
The US is pushing back against efforts by some European allies to offer Ukraine a “road map” to Nato membership at the alliance’s July summit, exposing divides in the west over Kyiv’s postwar status. The US, Germany and Hungary are resisting efforts from countries such as Poland and the Baltic states to offer Kyiv deeper
Any appraisal of the Good Friday Agreement, which is passing its 25th anniversary, must start with one fact. Up to 1998, 3,488 lives were claimed by Northern Ireland’s grinding conflict. And then, for the most part, the campaigns of killing stopped. All criticisms of the deal are mere footnotes to that. The principles of the
The IMF’s managing director has warned that the global economy is facing years of slow growth, with medium-term prospects their weakest in more than 30 years. Speaking in Washington ahead of the World Bank and IMF spring meetings next week, Kristalina Georgieva said the world economy would expand at an average annual rate of about
Chinese president Xi Jinping on Thursday warned against any escalation of the crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and repeated a call for peace talks, but did not publicly commit to playing a more active role in influencing Moscow. He spoke after a first round of meetings in Beijing with French president Emmanuel Macron,
The writer is executive director of American Compass Joe Biden has done an impressive job of undermining his own approach to governance in recent months. On a number of fronts, bipartisan policy has granted the federal government new authority to address some vital national problem, and each time the White House has made a point of
I have worked blissfully alone for 25 years. But this winter, my small tumbledown work flat in Paris — my safe space away from the wife and kids — finally had to be renovated. Since January I’ve been paying €358.80 a month to rent a desk in a WeWork co-working space. It has been a