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The Israeli military bombarded targets in the Gaza Strip overnight and said it had secured its breached border barrier with the enclave, three days after an unprecedented incursion by the militant group Hamas into Israel triggered the country’s worst war in decades. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled their homes, according to the UN, after

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military bombarded more than 200 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight and said it had secured its border with the enclave, three days after an incursion by Hamas triggered the worst war on

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said that she had spoken to Israeli president Isaac Herzog to convey her “full support”. “I reiterate that Israel has the right to self-defence,” she wrote on Twitter, formerly X. Von der Leyen added that she condemned “in the strongest possible terms, the senseless attack perpetrated against Israel

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Sam Bankman-Fried myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Sam Bankman-Fried’s trading firm Alameda Research secretly dipped into FTX customer funds just months after the crypto exchange — which collapsed with an $8bn hole in its balance sheet in November — was founded, the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Personal Finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Who would have believed that one of the most useful aphorisms in the history of investing would have come from Donald Trump’s fraud trial in New York’s supreme court this week? “There are many ways

Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. China has started its longest holiday break of the year with officials predicting record tourist travel that they hope will help to lift an economy struggling to emerge from its post-pandemic doldrums. Economists

Receive free US politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US politics & policy news every morning. The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a last-minute compromise funding measure with bipartisan support, bringing Washington one step closer to averting a damaging shutdown of the US government.

ESPN is close to finalising a deal on broadcast rights with the emerging golf league TGL, according to people familiar with the matter, giving the upstart pro league helmed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy a media partner as they prepare to launch next year. Terms of the deal, including value and duration, have not

Receive free UK house prices updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK house prices news every morning. UK house sellers are increasingly cutting prices to secure deals even as the normally busy autumn selling season gets under way, according to data from property platform Zoopla. Discounts have increased

This summer the pretty, peaceful town of Görlitz in eastern Germany was roiled by its biggest demonstrations in years. The trigger — a scuffle at a high-school graduation party. What began as a fight at a popular disco, the L2 Club, quickly escalated into unrest that appeared to capture Germany’s political divisions over migration. While the

Russia has weathered western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, the oligarch Oleg Deripaska has said, admitting “surprise” at the country’s resilience after a war he thought would bankrupt the Kremlin. Deripaska, one of Russia’s richest men, told the Financial Times that Moscow had survived the effort to isolate its economy by developing new trade

Lego has abandoned its highest-profile effort to ditch oil-based plastics from its bricks after finding that its new material led to higher carbon emissions, in a sign of the complex trade-offs companies face in their search for sustainability. The world’s largest toymaker announced two years ago that it had tested a prototype brick made of

Receive free War in Ukraine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. US president Joe Biden has decided to send American long-range missiles known as ATACMS to Ukraine after months of deliberations over whether to provide Kyiv with the munitions, according to people

Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. Wall Street stocks recovered on Friday after a week in which equities have been buffeted by rising oil prices and growing expectations that interest rates will stay higher for longer. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500

Yair Lapid, head of Israel’s largest opposition group, said the prospect of the country establishing full relations with Saudi Arabia was ‘welcome’ © Bloomberg Israel’s opposition leader has hit out at the idea of allowing Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium in the kingdom, warning such a development would pose a threat to the Jewish state’s

Receive free Federal Reserve updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Federal Reserve news every morning. For months, Jay Powell has tried to scotch hopes that the Federal Reserve will perform an abrupt about-face when it reaches the apex of its historic rate-rising campaign. The US central bank chair

Receive free UK inflation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK inflation news every morning. UK inflation was lower than expected in August, falling to 6.7 per cent from 6.8 per cent in July, rather than increasing on the back of higher petrol costs. The drop in almost

Receive free Canada updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Canada news every morning. Canada’s prime minister has said there are “credible allegations” that India’s government was involved in the fatal shooting of a prominent Sikh leader in British Columbia, citing intelligence from national security services. Justin Trudeau on

Western companies that have continued to operate in Russia since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine have generated billions of dollars in profits, but the Kremlin has blocked them from accessing the cash in an effort to turn the screw on “unfriendly” nations. Groups from such countries accounted for $18bn of the $20bn in Russian profits

Receive free Share buybacks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Share buybacks news every morning. Share buybacks on the US stock market have dropped to the slowest pace since the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic as rising interest rates undermine the incentive for companies to purchase their