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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 Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell played down concerns over US growth after U-turns by Donald Trump’s administration, disappointing jobs numbers and a tumultuous week in financial markets. Powell on Friday said the world’s…
Over the past few months, Ontario premier Doug Ford has been Canada’s political muscle, a no-nonsense figure not afraid to brawl publicly with US President Donald Trump. Whether it’s wearing a “Canada is Not For Sale” hat, tearing up Ontario’s contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, banning American booze, offering to buy Alaska or threatening to…
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 an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter The ambushing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last week is driving a frantic search for historical orientation….
Just before 8pm one evening in September 2021, two men began an unusual conversation on the Telegram messaging app: how to kidnap a Russian fugitive they believed to be hiding in Montenegro. One correspondent was Orlin Roussev, a Bulgarian IT expert who was in his home office in Great Yarmouth, a faded seaside town in…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Poland must consider acquiring nuclear weapons capabilities, its prime minister has said, as it confronts Russia and the possibility of a US retreat from Europe. Donald Tusk said that Poland “must reach for…
Three Bulgarian nationals have been found guilty of spying for Russia at the Old Bailey in London, in a trial that police described as one of the most significant espionage cases to be brought in Britain in decades. Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, were each convicted of one count of…
Europe is rushing to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband satellite network, after the US withdrew military aid and intelligence sharing from the country this week. Four large satellite operators — Luxembourg’s SES, Spain’s Hisdesat, Viasat, owner of the UK’s Inmarsat, and France’s Eutelsat/OneWeb — have all confirmed to the Financial Times…
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 confident that Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attack Taiwan during his time in the White House, according to US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent. Speaking on CNBC, Bessent said Trump…
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 threatened Russia with additional “large scale” sanctions and tariffs, as the US president shifts to piling pressure on Moscow in an effort to broker a peace deal in Ukraine. Trump’s…
Today’s non-farm payrolls figure matters even more than usual, coming at the end of a rocky week for markets. Concerns about the health of the US economy are mounting amid uncertainty over the Trump administration’s tariff policies and the scale of aggressive job cuts imposed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon…
