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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has demanded the EU begin “direct discussions with Russia on a ceasefire” in the war against Ukraine. Orban also said he opposed efforts to find any consensus on Ukraine

Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” as the US president cut short the Ukrainian leader’s long-sought meeting in the White House and told him to return “when he is ready for Peace”. In a joint appearance in the Oval Office on Friday, the two leaders clashed even before the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. International development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned on Friday in protest at Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to fund a £6bn defence spending increase by slashing the UK’s aid budget. “Ultimately, these cuts will remove food and

Donald Trump said he is working on a trade deal with the UK and suggested that Britain could escape tariffs if the countries secure one, but the allies failed to agree on US security guarantees for Ukraine. During a warm joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, the US president said his UK

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BP’s chief executive wants to more than double the oil major’s market value within five years to $200bn, the level it achieved before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Murray Auchincloss told the Financial Times that

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Kyiv has agreed terms with Washington on a minerals deal that Ukrainian officials hope will improve relations with the Trump administration and pave the way for a long-term US security commitment. Ukrainian officials

Despite the air of gloom hanging over China’s property market, work is well under way at a construction site in the north-west of Beijing. Yellow and green cranes nestle among the scaffolding, while lines of crushed limestone trail across the upturned earth. Backed by private developer Longfor, projects like this have helped power the world’s

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In August 2021, a video of Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez putting on a face mask on the steps of the US Capitol went viral. You might be surprised to hear that what was then such

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The thing about zealots, conspiracists, monomaniacs and cranks is their initial reasonableness. Few of them start off a conversation with their most extreme opinion. Their tactic is to establish common ground first, as a

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Hackers stole about $1.5bn in crypto tokens from Bybit, in a heist the digital asset exchange described as the biggest theft to hit the industry. Ethereum coins were been taken from Bybit’s offline or “cold” wallet,

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The first 30 days of Donald Trump’s second round in the White House have been a whirlwind of executive orders, lawsuits and controversy. Since his inauguration on January 20, the president has fired

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei has been buffeted by a scandal over his promotion of a memecoin that soared in value before collapsing, triggering impeachment calls and lawsuits. Milei promoted a cryptocurrency called $LIBRA on

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The EU must be involved in negotiations with Russia over the end of the Ukraine war in order to map out Europe’s future security architecture, the bloc’s president has said. The call comes

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

As US vice-president JD Vance this week asserted that Europe itself — more than Russia or China — had turned into a threat to democratic values, Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius grew visibly irritated. “This is unacceptable,” he was heard blurting out from the audience. The European leaders, generals and intelligence chiefs gathered at the

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 Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arm plans to launch its own chip this year after securing Meta as one of its first customers, in a radical change to the SoftBank-owned group’s business model of licensing its blueprints to the likes

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

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wall Street banks are close to selling $3bn worth of loans backing Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, offloading another mammoth portion of a debt deal that has lingered on their balance sheets for more than