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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US President Joe Biden has blamed Russia’s first major battlefield victory in Ukraine in nearly a year on the failure of the US Congress to pass a bill funding Kyiv’s army. Biden told his

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Diplomatic negotiations rather than a vote in the UK parliament will pave the way towards a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy has said. On Sunday, Lammy sought to downplay the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels is to impose its first ever fine on tech giant Apple for allegedly breaking EU law over access to its music streaming services, according to five people with direct knowledge of the long-running investigation.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A nearly 5 per cent rise for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng China Enterprises Index over the past week has stoked expectations for a catch-up rally when mainland stock exchanges return from their 10-day Lunar New

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is deputy leader of the UK Labour party Boris Johnson once said: “Fuck business.” And that’s exactly what he did. Since then, his successors as Conservative prime minister have followed suit. The impact

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. European competition authorities are focusing more on companies in the consumer sector as inflation heightens the risk of uncompetitive behaviour. in 2022, 17 unannounced inspections — dawn raids — were targeted by competition

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hundreds of former members of the European parliament are suing the institution over its drastic cuts to a generous supplementary pension scheme. They claim the halving of benefits breaches a commitment to pay in full

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private schools in England are seeking to attract more overseas students as they prepare for the prospect of Labour imposing a sales tax on their fees if it wins the next general election. The drive

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A senior banker has alleged that Morgan Stanley manufactured his job title to dupe European regulators into believing the bank had moved top staff to Frankfurt to comply with post-Brexit rules. The banker joined Morgan

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin A growing number of senior Nato officials are warning of a direct military confrontation between Europe and Russia in the not-so-distant future. The

Svetlana, a Russian literary scholar, knew she was risking arrest when she emerged from the Moscow metro to join hundreds of others drawn to the Solovetsky Stone to mark the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “I will never forget how I hid flowers under my jacket, exiting the metro station that was surrounded by

Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan will next week attempt to fulfil a promise his predecessor made to shareholders eight years ago: that a future with the UK bank is a bright one. The lender, the last European player of any size on Wall Street, will on Tuesday deliver its first major update on strategy since

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Alexei Navalny’s family have accused Russian authorities of hiding his body to cover up what they say is a state-sponsored murder, as the authorities began to arrest people attending spontaneous memorial gatherings. Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s

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. 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

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nato members are undermining their own security by holding back on critical weapon deliveries to Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Saturday, hours after his generals ordered a retreat from the eastern town of Avdiivka. 

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