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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. Egyptian intelligence repeatedly told Israel that the situation in the Gaza Strip could “explode”, warnings that went unheeded before the deadly Hamas assault on the Jewish state, according to two officials familiar with the matter.

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

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel faced a “long and difficult war”, as its forces continued to wage gun battles with Palestinian militants on Sunday morning following the unprecedented multipronged attack by Hamas that stunned the

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

Receive free Kevin McCarthy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Kevin McCarthy news every morning. Kevin McCarthy’s position as Speaker of the House of Representatives was in peril on Tuesday after 11 Republicans voted to proceed with an effort to oust him and Democrats said they would not

Receive free Indian politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Indian politics & policy news every morning. Welcoming Narendra Modi to Washington in June, Joe Biden said: “There’s an overwhelming respect for each other because we’re both democracies.” The joint statement issued by the US and

US president Joe Biden said America would “not walk away” from Ukraine after Congress jettisoned $6bn in aid to avert a government shutdown, even as Republicans tied further funding to the contentious issue of border security. “I want to assure our American allies, the American people and the people in Ukraine that you can count

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 Outlook updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Outlook news every morning. What do emails smell like? My visit to a new exhibition at London’s Design Museum suggests they give off a woody scent with a strong hint of juniper. Or perhaps, as Christian Widlic, the force

Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. European and Asian stocks retreated on Tuesday, as investors adjusted to the prospect of interest rates staying higher for longer to tame global price growth.   Europe’s region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.5 per cent, extending

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

Receive free Russian business & finance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Russian business & finance news every morning. Russia has succeeded in avoiding G7 sanctions on most of its oil exports, a shift in trade flows that will boost the Kremlin’s revenues as crude rises towards $100

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

Receive free UK interest rates updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK interest rates news every morning. UK mortgage rates are expected to fall further after the Bank of England held interest rates at 5.25 per cent after almost two years of rising borrowing costs.  Mortgage prices have

Receive free US interest rates updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US interest rates news every morning. The Federal Reserve is set to maintain its benchmark interest rate at a 22-year high on Wednesday but signal that it remains willing to tighten monetary policy further as it debates

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 called on world leaders to oppose early peace talks that would lead to the break-up of Ukraine, arguing that standing firm against Russia’s goal of winning a

China: Property developer Sunac plans to hold a creditors’ meeting on its offshore debt restructuring. Trading in the indebted company’s shares was suspended for a year after it defaulted on liabilities in 2022. Another developer, Country Garden, faces a initial deadline to pay more than $15mn in bond interest. Australia: Michele Bullock becomes Reserve Bank

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

Russia has authorised unreinforced oil tankers to sail through its icy Northern Sea Route for the first time, triggering warnings Moscow is risking a catastrophic Arctic spill as it reroutes sanctions-hit energy exports to Asia. Two tankers were granted permission in August to carry out the 3,500-mile long journey along Russia’s northern coast, despite not