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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world President-elect Donald Trump has named his daughter’s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, as a senior Middle East adviser, thrusting the Lebanese auto tycoon into a fragile U.S.-brokered truce between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Trump…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. A cabinet minister has denied that Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to announce new targets for his government next week is a “reset”, and defended the UK prime minister’s decision not to include a cap on internal…

Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo has fallen under government control for the first time since the country’s conflict began more than a decade ago, a war monitor said Sunday, following a sudden rebel advance. The Islamist-dominated rebel alliance has launched a lightning offensive against Iranian- and Russian-backed Syrian government forces since Wednesday, the same day a…

Russian and Syrian warplanes have intensified attacks on rebels who have seized much of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, in a lightning assault that poses the biggest challenge in years to Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Airstrikes hit the rebel-held city of Idlib for a second day on Sunday, while opposition media and war monitors said Russian and…

Elon Musk has again asked a US court to prevent OpenAI, which creates ChatGPT, from turning into a for-profit enterprise, CNBC reported on Saturday. Lawyers representing the billionaire and his AI startup, xAI, filed for the injunction on Friday, the financial news site reported. The injunction also seeks to prevent OpenAI from allegedly barring its…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The French establishment has reacted with a mixture of resignation and muted disdain to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of real estate developer, pardoned felon and family connection Charles Kushner as US ambassador to…

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising military spending to record levels in 2025 as Moscow seeks to prevail in war in Ukraine. About 32.5% of the budget published on Sunday on the government’s website is allocated to national defense, amounting to 13.5 trillion rubles (over 145 billion dollars), which is more than the…

Need the right gift at the last minute? It’s hard to go wrong with alcohol. Whether you’re lifting someone’s spirits, hosting a late-night holiday party, or planning a holiday brunch, real beer, wine, or spirits can brighten the occasion. But it is not easy to find the right bottle for the occasion. Tastes vary, and…

President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning announcement that he will nominate Kash Patel as FBI Director sets the stage for a new round of turbulence at the law enforcement agency tasked with protecting the homeland and investigating federal crimes. Patel, staunch Trump ally with plans to shake up the bureau, the study contrasts with the current stingy…

Sure, there were games played on Thursday and Friday, but there are still plenty of battles to be fought before the holiday weekend draws to a close. And with just five weeks left in the season after this, the playoffs are starting to come into focus for some teams, while others are already thinking about…