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Days before last year’s presidential election in Argentina, supermarket worker Emir Gullo was excited about the idea of a madman as president. “He’s crazy,” Gullo said admiringly at a rally for libertarian economist and then-candidate Javier Milei on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in late 2023, noting his eccentric image, unconventional ideas and lack of

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 White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump marks his return to the world stage at the reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Saturday as Europe braces for the incoming administration to take a harder, more transactional approach

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Romania’s constitutional court has annulled last month’s first round of presidential elections after evidence that the leading candidate benefited from Russian intervention. The unprecedented decision to strike down the vote, which was won by far-right candidate

A fortnight-long rally for Wall Street took a breather, as investors turned their attention to Friday’s government jobs report and its potential implications for the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting later this month. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite on Thursday finished about 0.2 per cent below their record closing highs notched up in the previous

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Detectives in New York are investigating inscriptions of “deny”, “defend” and “depose” on bullet casings left at the scene of the murder of the UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with

French President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections in July to get what he said would be a “clarification” from voters over the leadership and direction they wanted for the country. The voters provided clarity with a stinging loss for his party and a hung parliament that has rebelled after only three months, toppling the president’s

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Mexico said it had made the country’s largest seizure of fentanyl as it seeks to ward off US president-elect Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs on its exports. A navy-led operation seized more than

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China warned South Korea against politicising economic issues as the two countries agreed to restart trade talks ahead of their first three-way summit with Japan in almost five years. Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Xi Jinping’s top-ranking

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A judge in Delaware rejected Tesla’s attempt to restore Elon Musk’s record $56bn pay package after previously striking it down as a breach of the fiduciary duty of the electric-car maker’s board, dealing a blow

Joe Biden will begin a two-day visit to Angola on Monday in his first — and last — trip to Africa as US president, as Luanda moves closer to Washington after decades of ties with Moscow and Beijing. The meeting with his Angolan counterpart João Lourenço, originally planned for October as part of a pledge

Elon Musk has stepped up his attacks on the UK since the election of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government, branding the country “a police state”. But he enjoys a warmer relationship with former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Tony Blair, who have both attempted to strengthen ties with the world’s richest man, now one of

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. His art was the other interesting thing about him. Frank Auerbach, the painter who died on November 11, put blob of colour over encrusted blob of colour until his work was literally heavyweight. (A

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is director of regional security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and co-editor of the newly-released ‘Turbulence in the Eastern Mediterranean: Geopolitical, Security and Energy Dynamics’ With the world understandably focused on the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ireland is awash with cash from record surpluses, but a failure to deliver major infrastructure despite extravagant spending has sparked a painful question: does the EU nation have more money than sense? Nine years after

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France’s borrowing costs have surpassed those of Greece as investors fret about the French government’s ability to pass a deficit-trimming budget — and its ability to survive at all. The far-right Rassemblement National, led by Marine Le Pen, has threatened to back a censure motion against the government as soon as next week unless its

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia has used cluster munitions and other highly destructive bombs to target Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, prompting emergency shutdowns across the country on Thursday. “Again, the energy industry is under massive enemy attack,” said energy

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump is considering naming an aggressive enforcer to lead the Department of Justice’s trustbusting team, as top Republicans set their sights on alleged anti-competitive conduct by Big Tech. Gail Slater, a top

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Having transformed the car business with his technical flair, his eye for logistics, the genius from the Bay Area tried the same in Washington. He had a record of supporting a different political party to