Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Ukrainian defence start-up has struck a €100mn deal to make tens of thousands of drones in Germany, the first such tie-up under a Kyiv initiative to help boost the output of the country’s defence … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the European economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is executive chair of Banco Santander and chair of the Institute of International Finance Last week, EU finance ministers unanimously urged the European Commission to simplify and streamline the bloc’s financial regulatory framework. … 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 Ukraine, Germany, and the US claimed to have made progress on drafting a peace agreement to end Russia’s invasion, but admitted they remained divided over sensitive territorial issues and offered few details on … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US, the UK, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and now Australia. Over the course of the past two years, Jews have been murdered across five continents, and many other attacks have either been foiled … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer has ended a painful political year by admitting that speculation about a leadership coup is “rife” and complaining about how long it takes him to get things done. The UK prime minister … Read more
As the scale of arch-conservative José Antonio Kast’s victory in Chile’s presidential election became clear on Sunday evening, Argentine President Javier Milei published a map of South America on X with the top half coloured in red and the bottom half conservative blue. “THE LEFT IS RETREATING, FREEDOM IS ADVANCING,” Milei wrote, followed by the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rob Reiner’s son Nick has been arrested in connection with the deaths of the Hollywood filmmaker and his wife, after the couple were found dead at their home in California. According to the Los Angeles … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine’s security service on Monday claimed responsibility for a first-of-its kind “special operation” that it said critically damaged a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk, a key naval hub on Russia’s Black Sea coast. A Security … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Automobiles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Brussels plans to scrap the EU’s 2035 combustion engine ban, allowing carmakers to continue making a limited number of petrol and diesel-fuelled cars after the ban was meant to come into effect. The original ban was … Read more
Kopel Harkowitz’s mother wanted him to be a rabbi when the family immigrated from Europe to Australia in the 1920s — but instead he became a lifeguard on Bondi Beach. His grandson Tim Harcourt, an economist and academic, told the Financial Times on Monday that his grandfather had revelled in his role as a “true blue Aussie lifesaver” on the … Read more