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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. 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

A Reuters journalist has been killed and six journalists were injured after shelling in southern Lebanon.  “We are deeply saddened to learn that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed,” said a Reuters spokesperson. The shelling occurred during an exchange of fire along the border with Israel, during which there have been sporadic artillery exchanges

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s military on Friday called for the evacuation of Palestinians from the northern Gaza strip to southern Gaza, in a move the UN said would affect 1.1mn people and could result in a “calamitous situation”.

Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian will head to Baghdad on Thursday, on the first leg of a regional tour that will also see him visit Lebanon. He will meet with Iraqi officials, according to Tasnim news agency, affiliated to Irans’ Revolutionary Guards. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said he will discuss bilateral and regional issues, including Gaza. 

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The death toll in Israel has reached 1,200 people as the country discovered new evidence of mass killings by Palestinian militant group Hamas and prepared for a large-scale operation in Gaza following an unprecedented attack

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

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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