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Companies registered in the British Overseas Territories exported $134mn worth of goods to Russia in 2024 in an apparent breach of UK sanctions, according to FT analysis of Russian filings. The UK’s Russia sanctions legislation, which has been extended to the territories, bars companies and individuals from enabling Russia to obtain military, dual-use or luxury

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine has struck a military target inside Russia using US-made long-range Atacms missiles for the first time since Joe Biden’s administration lifted restrictions on their use, according to people familiar with the matter. Army

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s biggest technology groups are building artificial intelligence teams in Silicon Valley, seeking to hire top US talent despite Washington’s efforts to curb the country’s development of the cutting-edge technology. Alibaba, ByteDance and Meituan have

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, will urge G20 leaders to “double down” on their support for Ukraine, as he seeks to rally support for Kyiv ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president in

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US President Joe Biden has authorised Ukraine to launch limited strikes into Russia using US-supplied long-range missiles, in a big policy shift before the end of his White House term in January, two

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European markets are lagging behind Wall Street by a record margin after Donald Trump’s election victory pushed the region’s stocks lower and sent the euro tumbling. US stocks hit record highs after Trump secured his

Pyongyang has supplied Moscow’s army with long-range rocket and artillery systems, some of which have been moved to Russia’s Kursk region for an assault involving North Korean soldiers to push out Ukrainian forces, a Ukrainian intelligence assessment has found. In recent weeks, North Korea provided some 50 domestically produced 170mm M1989 “Koksan” self-propelled howitzers and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nissan plans to warn ministers that the UK car industry has reached a “crisis point”, with jobs and competitiveness at risk unless the government relaxes electric vehicle rules, according to two people with direct knowledge

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer will on Saturday warn angry business leaders and farmers that he will not retreat on the measures contained in last month’s controversial £40bn tax-raising Budget. The prime minister will insist that the

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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will tell City of London regulators to dial up the risk in the UK financial services sector, claiming that rules drawn up after the 2008 financial crash have “gone too far”

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Republicans have won a majority in the House of Representatives, giving Donald Trump’s party full control of both chambers of the US Congress and wide latitude to push a radical agenda through the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Matt Gaetz, the incendiary Republican congressman from Florida, has been nominated by Donald Trump to be US attorney-general in his second administration, a surprise pick for the post that will reverberate across the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a “department of government efficiency”, giving the two private-sector entrepreneurs charge of a promised effort to slash rules, bureaucracy and spending throughout

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Investment Banking myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Wall Street bonuses are on course to rise by as much as 35 per cent this year, as bankers eye even greater potential payouts under a second Trump presidency. Activity levels for corporate deals, stock

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump is closing in on top picks for his foreign policy team, planning to tap Florida congressman Mike Waltz as his national security adviser and to nominate Florida senator Marco Rubio to

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A deal to launch multibillion-dollar carbon markets governed by UN rules on emissions has been agreed at the COP29 climate summit, as countries attempt to show the fight against climate change will persist

Lingering consumer anger over high prices is hurting governments in advanced economies even though inflation is subsiding to normal levels, as a once-in-a-generation surge in costs leaves a toxic legacy for incumbent politicians. Discontent over the economy was a key motivator for Republican voters in this week’s US election, exit polling suggested — contributing to

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Bitcoin has hit $80,000 for the first time as Donald Trump recorded victories in Nevada and Arizona in the US election, marking a clean sweep of the seven swing states for the president-elect

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump’s win gave Republicans their highest share of the popular vote in two decades — and revealed big shifts in the US electorate, from the Democratic party’s reliance on wealthier, college-educated voters

Nibbling on crabs, sushi and sugar cookies, some of the richest and the soon-to-be most powerful people in the world waited for the election results on Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s gilded fortress on the sea.   At one of the tables, Trump sat with Elon Musk, the billionaire technology executive, and Dana White, chief

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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 Robert Lighthizer, who was US trade representative when Donald Trump launched his trade war with China, has been asked to take the job again as the president-elect starts to build his cabinet team.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump raced across key battleground states in the final hours of campaigning in a last push for votes, as Americans prepared to head to the polls on Tuesday in one of the closest presidential elections in modern history. The US vice-president said America was ready for a “fresh start” and claimed

Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made their final appeals to undecided voters and sought to rally their supporters in swing states as polls showed the election going down to the wire in

The Federal Reserve is poised to lower its benchmark policy rate by a quarter-point next week, sticking to its course in the face of a distorted jobs report and uncertainty over economic policy beyond Tuesday’s US presidential election. The Federal Open Market Committee will announce its next decision on interest rates two days after polls

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kemi Badenoch has been elected the new Conservative leader, with a vow to reset the party’s thinking and politics after its catastrophic election defeat this summer. The former business secretary won 57 per cent of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has sought to reassure nervous markets that his government will not become addicted to tax and spend after this week’s Budget, as he promised to carry out tough reforms

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investors are warning of a lingering “risk premium” in UK government borrowing costs after Rachel Reeves’ Budget sent gilt yields close to their highest levels since the 2008 global financial crisis. The chancellor’s plans to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plan to borrow more after rewriting the UK’s fiscal rules poses an “additional challenge” to repairing the public finances, rating agency Moody’s warned on Friday. In an assessment of the Labour