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Some of you may remember that less than a year ago this column went dark for a while. I had rushed to Sydney after my dad was knocked off his motorbike by a driver who considered red lights merely a suggestion to stop. He survived that one — just. A few weeks ago, however, when

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and warned that Ukraine’s president “better move fast or he is not going to have a country left”, deepening a rift between Washington and Kyiv.

Russia and the US have agreed to “lay the groundwork for future co-operation” on ending the Ukraine war and a lightning normalisation of relations, after their first high-level talks since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Following four-and-a-half hours of negotiations in Riyadh on Tuesday, the US state department said the two sides would appoint “high-level teams”

Western capitals are braced for a potentially decisive week for European security, as the US and Russia begin talks to end the war in Ukraine and European leaders hold an emergency meeting to respond to the fast-moving negotiations taking place without them. Europe’s most powerful leaders will gather in Paris on Monday for crisis talks

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Credit Suisse employees in the UK who transferred to UBS when the two banks combined are still eligible for paid sabbaticals unlike their colleagues, highlighting disparities in staff benefits almost two years after the UBS

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accountancy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK ministers are exploring further scaling back legislation aimed at reforming the audit market as they seek to ease regulation on businesses in a push to boost economic growth. Ministers overseeing the Audit Reform and Corporate

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The UK government has refused to disclose details of a meeting between American billionaire Peter Thiel and a former minister on the grounds that doing so could harm “diplomatic relations” between Britain and

Emmanuel Macron has described Donald Trump’s return as an “electroshock” that should force Europe to secure its own future as well as Ukraine’s. In an interview at the Élysée Palace shortly after Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin of Russia to hold imminent peace talks, the French president championed the need for Europe to “muscle up”

European officials fear they will have to bear the cost of postwar security and reconstruction as they reel from being cut out of US-Russia peace negotiations on Ukraine. Donald Trump said on Wednesday, after talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, that their delegations would “start negotiations immediately” to end the war, blindsiding European capitals. More

President Donald Trump said Washington and Moscow will begin negotiations “immediately” on ending the war in Ukraine after speaking with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Wednesday’s call indicated a dramatic turnaround in the US-Russia relationship amid signs Washington would dial back its support for Ukraine after almost three years of war. Trump wrote on his

Holding bitcoin is cool again. President Donald Trump has vowed to make America the “crypto capital of the planet”, words that have helped supercharge the token’s price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Wall Street banks and money managers are preparing to jump in. Investors hope Trump will turn the often-derided token into a mainstream financial asset

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US vice-president JD Vance warned Europe not to adopt “overly precautionary” regulations on artificial intelligence as America and the UK refused to join dozens of other countries in signing a declaration to ensure

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to halt the enforcement of a US anti-corruption law that bars Americans from bribing foreign government officials to win business. “It’s going to mean a

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 on Monday impose 25 per cent tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports, expanding his trade conflicts to the metals sector in a new burst of protectionism from

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world China and the US risk renewing a full-blown trade war unless the two largest economies can defuse the dispute before Chinese tariffs on $14bn of American exports take effect on Monday, analysts warned.

EH Seo was born and raised in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan, but never doubted she would study and work elsewhere. “Not only my parents, but everyone’s parents wanted their kids to move to Seoul,” said Seo, 32, who left South Korea’s second-largest city straight after high school and now works in the

Even amid a tumultuous present, it is difficult to imagine a radically different future. But the fortunes of nations do change, often dramatically. Politics has consequences. For this reason, it pays to think creatively about what these consequences might be — and about how we might look to those living with them. As an economist

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sales of Tesla’s electric vehicles have fallen sharply across many of its key European markets amid a consumer backlash against Elon Musk’s interventions in the region’s politics. The world’s largest EV maker in January registered

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs on Canada’s and Mexico’s exports, along with the 10 per cent tariff on China’s, change the world. This is true even though tariffs on the first two

A new wave of economic nationalism has swept across Canada as Donald Trump’s tariffs inspire anger but also a patriotic campaign to “Buy Canadian”. ‘Made in Canada’ signs have popped up in grocery stores, lists of Canadian alternatives to US products are being circulated and comedians are devoting skits on national television to how best