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Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the editor of the FT European parties run through at least three different political currents, which are called the “hard” or “extreme” right. The more they evolve – some as conservatives appealing mainly…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Giorgia Meloni dined with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago golf club on Saturday as the Italian prime minister seeks to strengthen ties with the US president-elect ahead of his inauguration. The Italian The…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government faces a “significant risk of bid-rigging” by contractors, the head of the competition regulator has warned. Sarah Cardell, head of the Competition and Markets Authority, said the agency is trialling a new AI-powered…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Taiwan has asked South Korea for help in investigating a Chinese-owned ship suspected of cutting an undersea cable off its northern coast on Friday. Taiwan’s telecommunications operator Chunghwa Telecom and the Taiwan Coast Guard said on…

The European Central Bank has been too slow to cut interest rates to help the stagnant eurozone economy, warned many economists polled by the Financial Times. Almost half of the 72 eurozone economists surveyed — 46 percent — said the central bank was “lagging behind” and out of tune with economic fundamentals, compared with 43…

Box office revenues in China fell by nearly a quarter last year as users turned to streaming services for entertainment due to a lack of blockbusters and tough economic conditions. While China’s film industry surpassed North America’s in terms of box office revenue for the first time in 2020, its post-pandemic recovery has been weaker….

Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. The head of the world’s largest publicly traded oil tanker operator has accused the UN maritime body of being “asleep at the wheel” over a growing dark fleet of unregulated ships, saying it is “only a…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Joe Biden’s administration has temporarily approved $8 billion in new weapons for Israel in a last-minute show of support for the US president’s close ally after more than a year of war in…

Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced his resignation after months of efforts to form a centrist coalition that excluded the far right failed. The country faces the possibility of new elections after failing to form a government…