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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. Concerns in Europe that Donald Trump might disengage the US from Nato would become “much less relevant” if all countries in the alliance hit their defence spending targets, said Grant Shapps, Britain’s defence secretary. Trump

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Evergrande’s liquidators are preparing for a potential lawsuit against PwC, which audited the now-collapsed Chinese property group for over a decade, in a move that could lead to the Big Four accounting firm facing a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sequoia Capital is seeking to oust its former leader Michael Moritz as chair of the fintech Klarna, an extraordinary move that reflects the venture capital group’s mounting discontent over the governance of what was once

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump and several business associates to pay a total of $364mn in penalties for persistent fraud committed by the real estate empire that brought the former US president

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said long-term defence agreements struck with Germany and France heralded a “new security architecture for Ukraine and new opportunities”. Zelenskyy signed 10-year bilateral defence accords with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2020, Alexei Navalny somehow survived being poisoned — almost certainly by Russian security agents — with a military-grade nerve agent. Now, after years of mistreatment in custody, Russia’s prison service says he has died

Hours after learning her husband Alexei Navalny had probably died in a remote Russian penal colony, Yulia Navalnaya made an unplanned appearance at the Munich Security Conference to tell western leaders who she held responsible. “If this is true, I want Putin and all of his entourage, Putin’s friends and his government to know they

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak sought to dampen the anger of his internal Tory party critics over two resounding by-election defeats on Friday by insisting that “midterm elections are always difficult” for incumbent governments. But Conservative insiders were

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Goldman Sachs paid chief executive David Solomon $31mn for 2023, up 24 per cent annually despite the Wall Street investment bank reporting its lowest profits in four years.  Last year was the most challenging so

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition activist who has been the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin’s regime for much of the past decade, has died in a remote Arctic penal colony aged 47, according to prison authorities. A firebrand campaigner for what he called the “beautiful Russia of the future”, Navalny’s detailed investigations exposing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Adrian Montague has quit as chair of Thames Water’s parent company after less than a year, as the utility faces a regulatory investigation over its decision to pay shareholders a dividend. Montague, an experienced

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Since Reform UK relaunched in late 2020, the party has underperformed when put to the test in by-elections. But this week the populist threat on Rishi Sunak’s right flank showed it could meaningfully chip away

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Next week will mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022. Although Russia has signally failed to achieve its war aims in Ukraine, the international security situation looks increasingly

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Egypt is building a walled enclosure along its border with Gaza, according to satellite images and activists, as Israel warned it would expand its offensive into the city of Rafah where 1.5mn displaced Palestinians have

Arriving weary and hungry from the bullet train in Hiroshima one night last spring, I trod the natural path by heading to a 7-Eleven convenience store for a can of beer, an onigiri rice ball and some fried chicken. In Japan’s cities, no matter the hour, one is never far from a bright haven of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An ex-Goldman Sachs analyst who obtained sensitive information about deals the investment bank was advising on and used it to trade stocks has been handed a prison sentence of almost two years. Mohammed Zina was

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a maximum-security prison in the country’s far north, Russia’s prison service has said. Navalny, 47 — President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent and a fierce critic of

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is an FT contributing editor, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and fellow at IWM Vienna Uncertainty may reign in the world today, but we can be sure that the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Thomas Suozzi won New York’s third congressional district in Tuesday’s special election, it was just the latest in a wave of impressive results for Democrats in off-cycle ballots. Averaged across the 57 contested elections

Investors are piling into stocks of European luxury goods and other sectors with exposure to China, believing they offer a safer way to profit from a possible recovery in the world’s second-largest economy than investing directly in its ailing stock market. The Stoxx Luxury 10 index — whose constituents derive around 26 per cent of

New assessments of Russia’s military capabilities and its threats to Nato’s security have led to a rising drumbeat of warnings from western governments and pressure to invest more heavily in defence. “We are living in truly dangerous times [and] at a point when large-scale conflict is more likely than it has been in recent history,”