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The US and Japan are planning the biggest upgrade to their security alliance since they signed a mutual defence treaty in 1960 in a move to counter China. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will announce plans to restructure the US military command in Japan to strengthen operational planning and exercises between the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s MPs will on Monday be put on alert to the threat of cyber attacks by Beijing ahead of this year’s UK general election, after a number of China hawks were targeted at Westminster. Oliver

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel says it has killed 170 people and detained 800 more in an almost week-long clash with Hamas militants at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital, one of the biggest battles of the war in the Palestinian

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has paved the way for the state pension triple lock to last until the end of the decade, after confirming that the Conservatives would include a pledge to keep it in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Four suspects in the largest attack on Russian soil in more than a decade were due to appear in a Moscow court on Sunday as the country held a day of mourning over the assault

South Korean diving instructor Park Soo-hong has been a customer of AliExpress, Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s online shopping service, ever since he went bargain-hunting for car parts five years ago. The 54-year-old regularly compares the platform’s prices with South Korea’s dominant portal Naver and US rival Amazon. An oil level gauge he recently bought for

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the ESG investing myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nearly two years into a Republican campaign to punish BlackRock for insisting that climate change carries financial risk, red state investment funds have pulled about $13.3bn from the world’s largest asset manager. That figure is

Yitzhak Yosef’s weekly sermons rarely make waves outside the cloistered world of Israel’s fervently religious ultraorthodox community. But when the chief Sephardic rabbi addressed the faithful earlier this month, he touched off a political firestorm. Yosef said ultraorthodox Jews, known as Haredim, would leave the country if the government began to conscript them for the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are leading a parade of corporate insiders who have sold hundreds of millions of dollars of their companies’ shares this quarter, in a signal that recent stock market

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China has introduced new guidelines that will mean US microprocessors from Intel and AMD are phased out of government PCs and servers, as Beijing ramps up a campaign to replace foreign technology with homegrown solutions. 

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s economy is at a “fork in the road” between choosing between past policies or “pro-market reforms” to unlock growth, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said on Sunday, as calls grow for Beijing to do

Friday’s bloody attack on a Moscow concert hall has been claimed by the terror group Isis, but Russian propagandists have sought to blame Ukraine. Responsibility for the assault, in which four gunmen killed at least 133 people and incinerated the building, was attributed by the US and other western countries specifically to an Afghan-based affiliate

A string of companies could follow Reddit into the US stock market in the coming months, bankers believe, after shares of the social media group leapt 48 per cent on their debut.  A steady, sustained rise in activity would breathe life into the market for initial public offerings, which has been largely shut down since

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Property sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster’s property company, is launching a £900mn lending business focused on residential development, as real estate investors opt for debt investments over the risk of buying assets with shaky valuations. The

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK stocks are trading close to a record discount relative to their Wall Street counterparts, luring some bargain-hunting investors back to the country’s battered stock market. London-listed equities have lagged behind peers in recent years

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russian security services have detained 11 people in connection with an attack on a Moscow theatre that killed 93 people. The FSB security service said on Saturday it was holding 11 people, including four men

A storm rolled over Milan as Sabato de Sarno’s big debut for Gucci took place, thwarting plans to use the city’s streets to present his new vision to the world. Last September’s event was the most hotly anticipated of the year after the designer was plucked from near obscurity by French luxury group Kering to