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  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    Obsessed with: Vancouver’s top-quality — and inexpensive — sushi

    The city is a sushi-lover’s paradise, and the salmon rolls and sashimi punch well above their price

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    News in-depthRomania
    The Wagner-style mercenaries plotting unrest in Romania

    Horaţiu Potra, a former member of the French Foreign Legion, was arrested with 20 other armed men headed for Bucharest

    Palace of the People in Bucharest, plus Horaţiu Potra from video
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    South African politics
    Malema slams ‘back-stabbing’ Zuma as South African left reshapes

    Former president will dump defectors to his upstart party, says Economic Freedom Fighters leader

    A montage of Julius Malema, left, and Jacob Zuma
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Iran
    Iran’s president urged to scrap stricter hijab law

    Masoud Pezeshkian and his supporters say measures will be tough to enforce as hardline parliament pushes for approval

    An woman without a mandatory headscarf walks past a cleric in northern Tehran
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’

    The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP

    A slight, grey-haired man wearing glasses and a dark suit stands by a window between heavy velvet curtains. He is Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader in the US Senate and the senator for Kentucky
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    French politics
    Corporate France faces up to new era of political dysfunction

    Government’s collapse over budget deepens uncertainty for business

    Michel Barnier, left, and Emmanuel Macron
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    The department of flags: Syrian rebels lay bare Assad’s corrupt state

    Transitional authorities grapple with bureaucracy filled with phantom jobs, pervasive graft and culture of obedience

    Mohammad Yasser Ghazal, a 36-year-old technocrat in the rebel Idlib government seconded from his job to help reconfigure the Damascus governorate
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    US equities
    US stocks rally set to slow as investor ‘euphoria’ fades, say big banks

    Wall Street strategists forecast S&P 500 will rise 8% by end of next year after big 2024 gains

    Christmas tree outside the The New York Stock Exchange in New York
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    InterviewQatar Investment Authority
    Qatar’s $500bn wealth fund targets bigger deals as LNG windfall looms

    New chief says QIA will deploy cash ‘more aggressively’ as it conducts investment review ahead of huge influx

    Montage of Mohammed Al-Sowaidi, the North Field gas field, US dollars and the Qatar Investment Authority logo
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Executive Pay
    Pay UK bosses like football stars, says Lord Spencer

    Founder of ICAP claims boosting chief executives’ salaries would help London’s competitiveness

    Lord Michael Spencer
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    US equities provide rocket fuel for record ETF flows in November

    Virtually every other corner of the ETF investment universe was ground into dust by the onward march of Wall St

    A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Markets InsightJohn Hussman
    New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history

    With US equities at record valuation peaks, investors should re-examine their risk appetite

    Economist Joseph Schumpeter
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    Darkenbloom — a reckoning with Austria’s 20th-century history

    Eva Menasse’s sprawling bestseller, set in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, confronts a nation with its murky past

    An overhead shot of a walled backyard, showing a rooftop, some laundry on a washing line and some tall sunflowers
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Financial ThinkingJonathan Guthrie
    Accurately predicting the next crash is impossible

    But we can weather downturns better by controlling our own biases

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    US trade
    Yellen warns Trump’s sweeping tariffs could ‘derail’ inflation progress

    US Treasury secretary says broad trade penalties might ‘significantly raise costs to households’

    US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen speaks during an interview
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Kroger-Albertsons $25bn grocery merger blocked by US judge

    Country’s two biggest supermarket operators suffer a potentially fatal blow in their efforts to consolidate

    A worker pushes shopping carts outside a Kroger grocery store in Dallas, Texas
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    News in-depthNational Health Service
    NHS in England ‘confused’ about Starmer’s priorities, health bosses warn

    Focus on 18-week waiting list target risks diverting attention away from other critical areas, service leaders say

    Montage of hospital staff with line charts in background
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Trump vows to speed up permits for anyone investing $1bn in the US

    President-elect pledges to loosen environmental rules for big developers

    Donald Trump at an election party
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Breaking news in brief
    News updates from December 10: HTS appoints Idlib leader as Syria’s interim prime minister; China’s CATL expands in Europe with €4.1bn Stellantis partnership
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Israel wants to create ‘sterile’ zone in Syria, says defence minister

    Israeli forces have seized territory and reportedly struck hundreds of military targets once controlled by Assad regime

    An Israeli military vehicle crosses into the buffer zone with Syria in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK government spending
    UK public sector workers face fresh pay restraint as Treasury takes tough stance

    Whitehall departments say rises of more than 2.8% for NHS staff and teachers in 2025-26 would be unaffordable

    Protest during joint strike action by train drivers, teachers, university staff and civil servants, in Leeds under last government
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    US equities
    Stocks are expensive, and nobody cares

    How UBS learned to stop worrying and love the rally

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Romania’s cancelled presidential election

    An alleged Russian campaign to support a nationalist candidate raises alarms

    Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gives a statement to the press in Mogoșoaia, Romania
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Israel
    Netanyahu decries ‘libel and lies’ in first corruption trial testimony

    Israeli prime minister takes to the stand to fight graft allegations that he has dismissed as a dangerous distraction

    Benjamin Netanyahu at the court in Tel Aviv on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Our humdrum A-Z goes back further than we think

    An archaeological discovery in Syria may force a revision of the alphabet’s origin story

    Andy Carter illustration of an archaeologist dusting sand away from a gift tag, enabling him to read the writing.
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