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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. Jeremy Hunt is considering slashing billions of pounds from public spending plans to fund pre-election tax cuts if he is penned in by tight finances in his March 6 Budget. Treasury insiders say the UK

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee has called on the White House to declassify information about a “serious national security threat”, and emailed members of Congress about a “destabilising foreign military capability”. President

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is about to learn if Britain tipped into a technical recession at the end of last year, a statistical nicety that could hand Labour a valuable propaganda weapon ahead of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel has warned that negotiations on a deal to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza would not advance until Hamas changed its position, in a sign that talks brokered by the US, Qatar

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. NatWest is set to confirm interim boss Paul Thwaite as its permanent group chief executive, with the state-backed lender preparing for the government to launch a public share sale before the end of the summer.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Palestinian Authority will be forced to “stop and reconsider everything” it does in as little as two to three weeks if Israel continues to withhold its revenues, the Palestinian finance minister has warned. Under

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Three Lebanese civilians were killed on Wednesday as Israel retaliated with air strikes for a suspected Hizbollah rocket barrage that had earlier killed an Israeli soldier and injured several others. A woman and her two

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thousands of Porsche, Bentley and Audi cars have been impounded in US ports after a supplier to parent group Volkswagen found a Chinese subcomponent in the vehicles that breached anti-forced labour laws.  According to two

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Volkswagen has responded to fresh allegations of having benefited from forced labour in Xinjiang by announcing talks with its Chinese joint venture partner over “the future direction of business” in the region. The short statement

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military has ordered thousands of people taking refuge in Gaza’s last big medical facility to leave after weeks of fighting around Nasser hospital brought Israeli troops to its gates. Hundreds of displaced Palestinians

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Here is one measure of America’s democratic pickle. The third-party candidates lining up to challenge the creaking two-party stranglehold are almost the same age as the incumbents. Joe Biden is 81. Donald Trump

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK house prices myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK house prices fell in the second half of 2023 driven by weakness in the London market, according to official data, underscoring the continuing pressure of higher borrowing costs. Average UK house prices decreased

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s Conservatives have always had a complex relationship with civil liberties. On the one hand they talk loudly about individual freedom and rail against the nanny state. On the other, they cheerfully wave through intrusive

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation stayed steady at 4 per cent in January, undershooting expectations and bolstering hopes that the Bank of England will soon feel it has enough evidence of price pressures easing to cut interest rates.

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 Europe Express newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday and Saturday morning Good morning. Nato will today announce that

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 Unhedged newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. A day after we questioned whether Arm was properly

The aid shipment that could have fed more than 1mn Palestinians for a month languished at the Israeli port of Ashdod for weeks. Then Israeli authorities said the desperately needed supplies could not be released. The shipment of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar and cooking oil, donated by Turkey, is one of many consignments facing blockages

Holzdorf military base was once the pride of Communist East Germany, a strategic linchpin for the Warsaw Pact countries who opposed Nato. Now it is being remade as one of the west’s biggest bulwarks against Russia. The base’s runway is being expanded, so any plane in the Nato arsenal can land there. Soon it will

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a chief executive asks for trillions, not billions, when raising funds you know a sector may be getting a bit too hot. In the long run, generative artificial intelligence will transform many industries and

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. How many people do you think would be willing to give away 1 per cent of their household income every month to fight global warming? Here’s a clue: it’s not 20 per cent or 40

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The billionaire British co-owners of supermarket Asda borrowed millions more from their petrol station company EG Group to repay debt they took on to buy two private jets.  EG lent Mohsin and Zuber Issa’s personal