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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On November 19 1919, the US Senate repudiated the Versailles Treaty. With that decision, the US withdrew its might from maintaining what had been agreed in the aftermath of the first world war, leaving this

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two polls on Sunday showed Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump as concerns over the economy and splits within the Democratic party over the Israel-Hamas war drag down the US president’s 2024 re-election prospects. A New

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI has released its first AI model, as the tech billionaire looks to take on OpenAI, Google and Meta with a sassy chatbot that is tightly integrated with X, formerly

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former US Department of State official Anyone who expected much daylight, let alone serious tension, between the Biden administration and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jobs growth in the US slowed sharply in October, according to a fresh labour market report that is likely to shape interest rate expectations for the world’s biggest economy. US employers added 150,000 new roles

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lawyers are taught never to ask a witness a question to which they do not know the answer. That logic also applies to wartime alliances. Joe Biden has hitched his fortunes to a man —

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. France, Britain and the Netherlands are drawing up plans to send humanitarian aid to Gaza by ship to ease the plight of Palestinian civilians and alleviate pressure on the border crossing with Egypt, which has

A video screengrab shows pro-Palestinian protesters storming the airport in Makhachkala © via REUTERS Russian police have arrested 60 people after an angry antisemitic mob stormed an airport in the southern city of Makhachkala on Monday, some waving Palestinian flags and searching for Jews among passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv on Sunday. Police

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to apologise on Sunday after a furious backlash from across the political spectrum over his claim that Israel’s security establishment had not warned him of Hamas’s plan to attack the country.

An Israeli soldier on a tank near the border with Gaza © HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Israeli army’s latest incursion into Gaza appears to be its largest yet, in what military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari described as “advancing in the phases of the war.” The army still appears be within the northern edges of the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turmoil in government bond markets has forced US companies to delay borrowing plans, making this the slowest October for debt issuance in more than a decade. US firms have raised just under $70bn from sales

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is former chief of MI6 and UK Ambassador to the UN In the Yom Kippur war, 50 years ago this month, the attacking armies from Egypt and Syria had a clear goal —

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jenna Ellis, a former lawyer for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, has struck a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors, becoming the fourth co-defendant in the sprawling conspiracy case to flip on the former president.  “If

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “While you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it. After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. And while we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.” So said Joe Biden

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The long-awaited delivery of aid to the besieged Gaza Strip has been delayed by disagreements over how to ensure the supplies cannot be used by Hamas, according to three people familiar with the matter. US

US troops were the targets of two separate drone attacks in Iraq, US Central Command said on Wednesday. The first saw US forces defend against two drones, one of which caused “minor injuries to a small number of troops” when it was intercepted. An Iraqi official told the Financial Times the attack targeted al-Asad base

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US president Joe Biden landed in Israel on Wednesday amid a storm of recriminations over an explosion at a hospital in Gaza that, according to Palestinian officials, killed hundreds of people and inflamed tensions in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jordan has warned that the Middle East is at the edge of an “abyss”, as diplomatic activity intensifies to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from spiralling into a regional conflict. King Abdullah of Jordan delivered his

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hospitals in Gaza are likely to run out of fuel within 24 hours, putting the lives of thousands of patients at “immediate risk”, the UN warned as Israel lays siege to the enclave in response

© Jalal Morchidi/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The spectre of a wider conflict in the Middle East poses a fresh threat to the global economy, finance ministers and officials have warned. Broader regional tensions would have significant economic ramifications, they said, as they rounded off meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Morocco this week. The biannual events