Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For obvious reasons, financial discussions around Venezuela’s future mostly revolve around its enormous oil reserves. But Donald Trump’s talk of turning Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” last year suggests it is worth … Read more
Long seen as defunct, the Monroe Doctrine is being invoked once again as a blueprint for assertive US foreign policy. Historian Greg Grandin charts the rise, fall and rebirth of an ambiguous creed
Pearl-clutching about the Venezuela operation ignores the history of US military strategy
UK retailers are counting the cost of an underwhelming Christmas, in which the reluctance of cautious consumers to spend on much outside of their festive food shop pushed some of the high street’s weaker players to the brink of collapse. In a deluge of trading updates this week, Tesco, Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury’s reported … Read more
The Arctic island’s 34-year-old prime minister is at the centre of one of the world’s most meaningful geopolitical struggles
ExxonMobil has warned that Venezuela remains “uninvestable” without “significant changes” in a rebuke to Donald Trump’s call for oil companies to pour billions of dollars into revitalising its oil industry. Darren Woods, chief executive of the biggest US oil major, struck a sceptical tone at a televised White House gathering of energy bosses on Friday … Read more
Maduro’s capture leaves Putin’s costly plans to build an anti-US bulwark in Latin America in tatters
Venezuela’s currency has fallen nearly 20 per cent on the black market since the US capture of President Nicolás Maduro, as uncertainty pushes citizens to hoard dollars and the partial US oil blockade chokes the crumbling economy. The plunge adds to the pressure on interim president Delcy Rodríguez to strike a deal with the US … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump has embarked on an audacious power grab in Latin America with his military assault on Venezuela, and spoken apparently seriously of his “need” to gobble up Greenland too, in a bombastic … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s Grok AI model lacked safeguards to stop users generating sexualised deepfakes of women and children, according to experts who warn that many AI systems are vulnerable to producing similar material. On Friday, the … Read more