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...“Indifference had sealed Rwanda’s fate long before we tried to save it.”...
...alec.russell@ft.com...
...Marc Filippino And I’ve also got with us Alec Russell, who serves as the FT’s foreign editor based in London. Hi, Alec. Alec RussellHello, Marc....
...Hichilema told the Financial Times that a debt deal was already “long overdue”, and it had been given greater urgency after rains destroyed much of Zambia’s maize harvest and throttled the hydropower that...
...In the long run, the sector has aspirations to be a global defence tech industry on the model of Tel Aviv’s....
...Alec Russell Well, I don’t think it is doomed....
...Europe’s shift on defence spending is long overdue anyway. alec.russell@ft.com...
...The sorry tale has long been forgotten, not least given the catastrophe that engulfed the world just a few years later....
...And note that it took more than half a century — long after Oglesby’s death in 2011 — for his coinage to catch on. alec.russell@ft.com...
...It would be heartening to imagine that historians will see 2024 as a milestone in democracy’s long journey from the rowdy town square debates of classical Athens, through the thinking of 18th-century philosophers...
...Glasses, Alec’s own Actor Xelia Mendes‑Jones, 27, wears Brioni silk/linen coat, £4,500, silk/linen knit top, £1,600, and cotton/linen trousers, £1,040. Gucci leather loafers, £675....
...Alec Russell is the FT’s foreign editor...
...Alec Russell, foreign editor, was joined by FT colleagues in Jerusalem, Beirut, Cairo and Washington DC for a subscriber webinar on the Israel-Hamas war, fears of a wider conflict and the chance of a long-term...
...But Shmyhal insisted Kyiv remained confident in the Biden administration’s long-term pledges of support and in the continuing backing of the American people....
...Rana Foroohar responds Oh boy, Alec, I wish I had more optimism about the UN, but its size — which is in some ways the thing that makes it so important — also makes it very, very unwieldy....
...This article is part of a guide to Rome from FT Globetrotter On my first night out in Rome in far too long, I did what visitors to the city have been doing for more than 250 years and went for a post-dinner...
...They long for the days of stimulus cheques, cheap groceries and less corporate “wokeness”....
...Xi Jinping, China’s president, was always a long-shot, given the antagonism between Beijing and Washington....
...Do email me, alec.russell@ft.com.) For India this is a huge moment....
...Alec Russell’s Big Read could easily be summarised as “democracy is wonderful as long as it comes up with the right answer” (“Can democracy survive 2024?” January 4)....
...Rana Foroohar responds Alec, I’d argue to let Biden be Biden....
...Biden administration officials talk of the need not to react when old allies adopt positions close to China or Russia, but rather to make their case privately and stress the long-term advantages of America...
...So how long will it be before Africa finds itself treated as an equal?...
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