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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. Donald Trump has won the South Carolina Republican primary, inflicting another defeat on Nikki Haley in the race to win the party’s presidential nomination — this time in her home state. While Trump’s margin of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Argentina’s libertarian leader Javier Milei and former US president Donald Trump have met for the first time, celebrating a shared goal of combating socialism even as Milei courts support from the Biden administration for his

Donald Trump on Saturday branded himself a “political dissident” facing persecution from “thugs” in the US justice system as he issued a dystopian rallying cry for voters to back his return to the White House. Trump was speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, a prominent gathering of activists that has been entirely

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lee Anderson, former Conservative deputy chair, has been suspended from the party after refusing to apologise for claiming that Islamists had “got control” of London and its centre-left mayor Sadiq Khan.  A spokesperson for Simon

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Warren Buffett has warned Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that his sprawling $905bn conglomerate has virtually “no possibility of eye-popping performance” in the years ahead, laying bare the challenges that will confront his successors. The so-called Oracle

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russian officials have returned Alexei Navalny’s body to his mother after what the late opposition leader’s team described as a week of stalling, obfuscation and threats to let it rot. Officials in Salekhard, the city

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European investors have been piling into the region’s risky corporate bonds to scoop up the chunky yields on offer, as they grow more confident in companies’ ability to refinance their debt. A record $1.2bn has

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The new chief executive of Rolls-Royce has made a paper profit of close to £22mn on his holdings in the British engineer following a powerful rally in its share price. Tufan Erginbilgiç, who took the

In the weeks since a parliamentary by-election was triggered in Rochdale, the campaign to win the northern English mill town has become one of the most divisive in modern British political history. The all-male list from which voters will choose on Thursday features two candidates abandoned by their respective parties, Labour and the Greens, because

Ukrainians enter the third year of war with a bleaker outlook than at any point since the early days of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion on February 24 2022. A year ago they were brimming with optimism over their chances of pushing Moscow’s troops back and breaking the so-called land bridge between the occupied

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ursula von der Leyen insisted that the EU remained committed to supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia as she arrived in Kyiv on the second anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion. “More than ever,

I did not plan to spend the most romantic night of the year having dinner with strangers. But then a friend sent me a link to Timeleft.  The app, which algorithmically matches six people to go for a meal together, seemed a better option than staying in. So, on Valentine’s Day, I arrive at Americana,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The number of people informing the UK tax office they have moved out of the country has dropped sharply, with tax experts pointing to “stealth” relocations as a factor behind the change. The fall comes

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Paris and Berlin brought to a standstill; Polish farmers hurling eggs at EU buildings; Bulgarians calling for the agriculture minister to resign. The modern farmers’ uprising travels by tractor, not ox cart. But its message

Sir Lynton Crosby’s CT Group has been accused of supplying forged banking records to claimants in two unrelated legal battles, raising questions about the consultancy’s methods as it tries to promote its corporate intelligence practice. The latest accusation against the former Tory election adviser’s firm was made this week by relatives of a deceased Russian

A relatively unknown 92-year-old Belgian company is climbing up the global snackmaker rankings, outshining rivals and captivating Gen Z on social media as it seeks to transform itself into a global brand. Lotus Bakeries, the company behind the Biscoff caramelised biscuit and spread, has experienced a revival in the past decade after years of sleepy

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stephen Schwarzman’s income from Blackstone Group fell below $1bn in 2023, a decline of more than 30 per cent from the previous year, as a slowdown in dealmaking made it harder for the world’s largest

A US state’s court ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children has thrust reproductive rights back to the forefront of the 2024 presidential election, prompting Donald Trump to insist that he supports access to in vitro fertilisation. In a decision last week, the Alabama Supreme Court said that “unborn children are ‘children’ . . . without exception based

Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon is facing a new wave of unrest inside the Wall Street bank, threatening a fragile peace among its partners. Solomon’s decision to accept a 24 per cent pay rise last week despite presiding over the bank’s worst annual earnings for four years has proved controversial, as has the staffing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eleven companies dubbed the “Granolas” propelled European stocks to a record high this week, with their outsized contribution echoing the better-known “Magnificent Seven” in the US. The crunchy acronym was coined by Goldman Sachs for

Yulia Navalnaya had said she always wanted to be a politician’s wife, not a politician herself. But in the days since her husband Alexei Navalny died in a remote Arctic penal colony, she has seized the stage like a world leader. Hours after Russia announced the death of Navalny last Friday, she vowed to hold