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Should books be sanitised? And is it even possible to rewrite sections of text while remaining true to the author’s style and intentions? The debate over whether to retrofit historic literature, especially children’s books, for modern readers is not new — but it was reignited this week with The Daily Telegraph’s revelations that several of
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From the moment he stepped off a plane in Moscow this week, Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi lauded China’s friendship with Russia. The bilateral relationship was “mature” and “as stable as Mount Tai”, he told Russian president Vladimir Putin, invoking a sacred mountain in China’s eastern Shandong province. Wang’s visit to Moscow concluded a week
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This was the warm-up act. The visit of Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, to Moscow this week was designed to set in train a fresh Chinese approach to bilateral ties almost a year after Russia ordered the invasion of Ukraine. Although the headline quotes from Wang’s meeting with President Vladimir Putin played up promises to
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Join our webinar for FT subscribers from 1pm-2pm UK/GMT on Thursday February 23. Put your questions to our panel with Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller, Europe editor Ben Hall, and expert guests Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist with 1mn followers on YouTube, Sergey Aleksashenko, former deputy governor of the central bank of Russia, and Andriy
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BAE Systems reported its best year for new orders in 2022 as Britain’s biggest defence contractor benefited from a surge in business from long-term programmes and forecast more to come as the war in Ukraine drags on. The FTSE 100 group, which builds everything from Eurofighter Typhoon jets to nuclear submarines and combat vehicles, said
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The EU and its allies are investigating a surge in exports to economies in Russia’s vicinity as they seek to prevent companies from evading western sanctions imposed on Moscow. David O’Sullivan, the EU’s newly appointed sanctions envoy, told the Financial Times that big increases in trade with countries in Russia’s neighbourhood raised questions as to
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At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, received a troubling phone call. After spending months building up a more than 100,000-strong invasion force on the border with Ukraine, Vladimir Putin had given the go-ahead to invade. The decision caught Lavrov completely by surprise. Just days earlier, the Russian president
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What is worse than house prices crashing 20 per cent? How about them not crashing 20 per cent? With higher borrowing costs and inflation — and decades of tighter mortgage lending — the UK property market faces the prospect not of falling, but of freezing stiff. And that might be the “worst of all worlds”,
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An off-duty police officer was shot in Northern Ireland on Wednesday night in what politicians condemned as a “shameful” attack committed by “terrorists” and a chilling reminder of the region’s past violence. The attack took place as London and Brussels seek to clinch a deal on Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland that some activists
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The World Bank is under mounting pressure. International threats to poverty — from global warming, the spread of disease and war — have become increasingly apparent over recent years. Meanwhile, global debt has surged, geopolitical rifts are denting co-operation, and estimates suggest $125tn of climate investment is needed by 2050 to meet net zero targets.
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