News

Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” as the US president cut short the Ukrainian leader’s long-sought meeting in the White House and told him to return “when he is ready for Peace”. In a joint appearance in the Oval Office on Friday, the two leaders clashed even before the

Donald Trump said he is working on a trade deal with the UK and suggested that Britain could escape tariffs if the countries secure one, but the allies failed to agree on US security guarantees for Ukraine. During a warm joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, the US president said his UK

US President Donald Trump has said his administration is working on a trade deal with the UK, while suggesting that Britain could escape tariffs if such an agreement were struck. During a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said that the US vice-president JD Vance and US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent were

Once Samkelo accepted the terrifying truth, he stopped doomscrolling on Facebook, lay on his bed and considered his options. The first thing he did was bring out the bottles and sachets of pills that were in his bedside drawer. He counted them out: 62 pink ones, 62 yellow ones and 62 white ones. Enough antiretrovirals

€69 per month Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders. Pay a year upfront and save 20%. What’s included Global news & analysis Expert opinion FT App on Android & iOS FT Edit app FirstFT: the day’s biggest stories 20+ curated newsletters Follow topics & set alerts with myFT

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer told MPs on Tuesday that Britain was confronting a “world where everything has changed”, as he shredded the country’s overseas aid budget to fund a rearmament programme not seen since the cold

Despite the air of gloom hanging over China’s property market, work is well under way at a construction site in the north-west of Beijing. Yellow and green cranes nestle among the scaffolding, while lines of crushed limestone trail across the upturned earth. Backed by private developer Longfor, projects like this have helped power the world’s

Donald Trump signalled the US is prepared to forge an “economic” deal with Russia, saying Washington had recently held “very good talks” with Moscow over ending the war in Ukraine. The US president’s comments, made to reporters while sitting alongside his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in the Oval Office, came shortly after Washington voted against a

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump fired General CQ Brown as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, ousting the respected Air Force leader as the president seeks to remove military officers who have

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Sir Keir Starmer has said Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “democratically elected leader” and that it is “perfectly reasonable” to suspend elections during wartime, after Donald Trump called the Ukrainian president a “dictator”.  The

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Russia and the US have agreed to “lay the groundwork for future co-operation” on bolstering ties and ending the Ukraine war, after holding the first high-level talks on the conflict since the early

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Senior US and Russian officials will meet in Riyadh on Tuesday for talks that the Kremlin has hailed as a step to restoring full bilateral relations and ending the Ukraine war but which

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Generative AI is a transformative technology that has the potential to redefine the nature of work. Understanding its role in the workplace, and what makes it different from past automation, requires a shift from what

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US secretary of state Marco Rubio has spoken with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov ahead of high-level talks between Washington and Moscow next week, as relations thaw between the countries. Rubio, national security

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a US proposal to take ownership of around 50 per cent of the rights to his country’s rare earth minerals and is trying to negotiate a better

For President Donald Trump, tariffs are a way of protecting American industries and safeguarding national security. For Tracy Skupien, they are a calamity that has pitched her company into crisis. Skupien is director of operations at Tompkins Products, a small family business in Detroit which takes imported cold drawn aluminium bar and turns it into

Vladimir Putin’s initial plan to capture Ukraine in a few days ended in disaster. But after Donald Trump set up direct peace talks with Moscow, bypassing Kyiv and European allies, the Russian president is now closer than ever to getting what he wanted from his three-year-long invasion. Putin’s main ambition, said people who have spoken

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hamas has said it remains committed to a ceasefire deal with Israel in Gaza and will continue freeing Israeli hostages from the enclave as set out in the agreement. The announcement appeared to reverse a

Holding bitcoin is cool again. President Donald Trump has vowed to make America the “crypto capital of the planet”, words that have helped supercharge the token’s price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Wall Street banks and money managers are preparing to jump in. Investors hope Trump will turn the often-derided token into a mainstream financial asset

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain on Tuesday refused to join the EU in threatening a trade fight with the US over steel tariffs and followed Washington in declining to sign a global accord on artificial intelligence, in a sign

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is chair of Rockefeller International. His latest book is ‘What Went Wrong With Capitalism’  The mystery of the moment is why rampant speculation persists in the all-American bull market despite the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A federal judge in New York has temporarily blocked Elon Musk and his team from accessing the US Treasury department’s payments data, warning that it risked leading to the disclosure of sensitive information.

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump announced Nippon Steel had abandoned its plan to buy US Steel but would “invest heavily” in the iconic Pittsburgh producer. At a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba

Donald Trump’s new cryptocurrency has sparked a flood of imitators, leading to warnings that investors risk being duped. More than 700 copycat and spam coins have been sent to Trump’s digital wallet by people apparently seeking to suggest their creations have his endorsement, according to a Financial Times analysis. It comes after the president and

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK interest rates myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Bank of England has halved its 2025 growth estimate and cut interest rates by a quarter-point to 4.5 per cent, as it contends with a stagnant UK economy and an increasingly uncertain international

Financial markets have been roiled by US President Donald Trump’s announcement of tariffs on key trading partners, and investors are bracing for further volatility ahead. Here’s how they are trading Trump’s on-again, off-again trade war. Equities: ‘impossible to avoid risk’ Wall Street has been working since before November’s presidential election on how it should position

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US consumers face the possibility of higher prices for popular goods such as tomatoes, avocados and tequila following Donald Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on imports from China, Mexico and Canada.  The potential

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The EU has said it regrets US President Donald Trump’s decision to hit Canada, Mexico and China with sweeping tariffs, and said it would respond firmly if a threat to expand the trade

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU plans to make ecommerce platforms such as Temu, Shein and Amazon Marketplace liable for dangerous or illegal products sold online, in a crackdown on the flood of imports from China. According to a

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Canada’s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland has said Ottawa should retaliate to any US tariffs by adding huge levies on Tesla vehicles to punish Elon Musk, one of Donald Trump’s “billionaire buddies”. Freeland,