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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. China has launched an antitrust probe into AI chip giant Nvidia, amid deepening tensions with the US over technology. Chinese state media on Monday night reported that the country’s market regulator had in recent days

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “Assad must go,” said Barack Obama in 2013. More than a decade later, the Syrian dictator has gone. But the mood in the US and Europe is wary rather than celebratory. Recent history

International powers seeking a peaceful transition in Syria will have to consider lifting the “terrorist” designations applied to the Islamist movement that led the rebellion to topple Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, a senior UN official has suggested.   Geir Pedersen, the UN’s special envoy for Syria, told the Financial Times there was “no way to exclude”

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Turkey’s foreign minister has called on the UN and other international actors to “extend a hand to the Syrian people and support the formation of an inclusive administration” following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s government. Hakan Fidan said Turkey would work for the territorial integrity, political unity, welfare and security of Syria after opposition fighters,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel has taken more Syrian territory and struck chemical weapons sites in reaction to the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s regime by a group led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The moves come as regional

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Monday: China announces inflation figures for November while Japan publishes its trade figures for October. India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh continues a visit to Russia. Tuesday: Australia’s central bank announces its interest rate decision and Malaysia publishes October industrial output data. Wednesday: The Central Economic Work Conference, the Chinese government’s annual economic policy meeting, begins

Show video info Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country after a stunning offensive by rebels who seized the capital city of Damascus and toppled the dynasty that had ruled for 50 years. Amid scenes of jubilation on Sunday, the rebels proclaimed that “the city of Damascus is free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad”

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Omnicom and Interpublic are in talks to merge in a deal worth more than $30bn that would create the world’s largest advertising agency and reshape the global marketing industry. The combined US group would probably

On Sunday morning, as gaunt detainees flooded out of Syrian regime prisons and jubilant Damascenes streamed into the presidential palace to root around among abandoned designer shopping bags, Bashar al-Assad was nowhere to be found. The only sign of the dynastic president, whose family had ruled Syria for half a century, was his ubiquitous portrait.

Iran had lost faith in now-deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad before his fall from power, according to analysts and insiders, and its foreign minister told him last week that a weakened Tehran could no longer send more forces to support his regime. When Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi visited Damascus last week, days after Syria’s

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump said he would not seek to remove Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell before his term expires in May 2026, but promised to push ahead with sweeping tariffs, mass deportations and tax

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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. Thirteen years after children scribbled anti-regime slogans in the southern city of Deraa, sparking the Syrian revolution, Bashar al-Assad and his kleptocratic family have fallen. The end of a dynasty that has brutalised and pillaged

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Assad family has ruled Syria for more than 50 years. But fuelled by the perceived weakness of the government’s allies, rebel groups have achieved a lightning victory, forcing President Bashar al-Assad to flee. Here’s