South Korea’s constitutional court restores PM as acting president

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Korea’s prime minister Han Duck-soo has been restored to office as acting president after the country’s constitutional court overturned his impeachment, raising tensions ahead of a hotly anticipated ruling on President Yoon Suk Yeol…

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Why did Donald Trump buckle?

Was it Jamie Dimon or the bond market? Donald Trump played chicken with the markets for a week. But by Wednesday the multi-front trade war he launched on the world on April 2 with much fanfare had become unsustainable economically, financially and politically for the US president.  In an abrupt move, Trump swerved away from…

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