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Russia
How Ukraine war distracted Moscow from Isis-K threat
...Isis-K launched a suicide attack against the Russian embassy in Kabul in September 2022. “Isis-K has even rolled out a Russian-language propaganda wing,” Webber said....
March 24, 2024
News in-depthTerrorism
How the Taliban’s return made Afghanistan a hub for global jihadis
...This has included operations in Europe either directed or inspired by Isis-K....
March 27, 2024
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka reaches preliminary debt deal with China’s Exim Bank
...K M Mahinda Siriwardana, secretary to the Treasury, said in a statement that the agreement “constitutes a key milestone in Sri Lanka’s ongoing efforts to foster its economic recovery” and praised Exim Bank...
October 12, 2023
HTSI
Putting a pin on Madeleine Albright’s style
...The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K Albright is on show at Freeman’s|Hindman New York from 2 to 6 May; live auction, 7 May; online auction, 8 May...
March 27, 2024
News in-depthIndian economy
India’s food price inflation raises risks for Modi government
...Swamy K, a 68-year-old rice farmer in a village near Mysuru, said he remained loyal to Modi even though he loathed Karnataka’s erstwhile BJP government....
July 30, 2023
Afghanistan
Bomb blast at Kabul academy exposes growing danger for minorities
...No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Sunni extremists such as Isis-K, the local branch of the Middle Eastern terror organisation, have consistently targeted Hazaras....
September 30, 2022
FT Live
Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia
Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability
Tuesday, 30 JulyMandala Club, 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd, Singapore 089845
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
Reliance Jio outbids rivals in India’s $19bn 5G auction
...K Rajaraman, secretary in India’s ministry of communications, said the auction results announced on Monday reflected “a very positive uptick in the mood of the industry” and would lead to a fall in prices...
August 1, 2022
Benjamin Parkin
Cricket in Pakistan is more than just a game
...benjamin.parkin@ft.com...
March 16, 2022
FT Magazine
Inside the mysterious downfall of India’s Cox & Kings
...But I’m sure C&K will be.” Benjamin Parkin is the FT’s South Asia correspondent. Alice Hancock is the FT’s leisure industries reporter....
January 22, 2022
ReviewFiction
The Men by Sandra Newman — a world without the Y chromosome
...One morning in late August, Natalie wakes up in a tent pitched in the mountains of northern California to find her husband Leo and five-year-old son Benjamin have vanished....
May 25, 2022
Afghanistan
Kabul airport faces new threat as US withdrawal deadline nears
...A third Isis-K member was injured. Isis-K has claimed responsibility for the Thursday bombing against US troops and Afghans desperately attempting to flee the country....
August 29, 2021
The Big Read
Afghanistan’s looming famine: will the US help the Taliban?
...The Taliban are also embroiled in its own counterinsurgency against the Islamic State Khorasan or Isis-K, an offshoot of the extremist group....
December 22, 2021
Afghanistan
UN warns of looming food crisis in Afghanistan
...Isis-K, an affiliate of the global terrorist group and rival of the Taliban, carried out a terrorist attack last week on Kabul’s airport that killed more than 100 Afghans and 13 US troops....
September 2, 2021
Afghanistan
US warns of renewed terrorist threat at Kabul airport
...Thursday’s suicide bombing was claimed by Isis-K, an Afghan affiliate of the terrorist group Isis. The US on Friday launched a drone strike that it said killed two “high profile” members of the group....
August 29, 2021
Afghanistan
First flight carrying passengers leaves Kabul since US pullout
...During the last days of the US pullout, jihadi group Isis-K claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed at least 170 people, including 13 American troops....
September 10, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Taliban
Afghanistan’s young Talibs: ‘No compromise with the enemy of our martyrs’
...A 2020 study by the United States Institute of Peace found that Isis-K, an affiliate of the international terrorist group and Taliban enemy, has recruited much of its base from middle-class, urban youth....
September 17, 2021
ReviewScience fiction books
Genre round-up — the best new science fiction
...A different kind of global disaster strikes in Benjamin Percy’s The Ninth Metal (Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99) which sees the debris from a comet’s tail strike our planet as meteorites, leaving deposits of...
June 14, 2021
News in-depthUS employment
Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs
...That’s why I f**k around on company time baby,” wrote Brotendo88. But its most celebrated posts are screenshots of resignation letters and text messages....
January 9, 2022
Indian politics & policy
US and Europe to send aid to fight India’s coronavirus surge
...K Sujatha Rao, India’s former health secretary, said the policy would give the Serum Institute enormous influence over allocating scarce vaccines while reaping huge profits....
April 26, 2021
ExplainerAfghanistan
What now? Afghanistan awaits the Taliban’s next move
...Additional reporting by Fazelminallah Qazizai in Kabul, Stephanie Findlay in Islamabad and Benjamin Parkin in New Delhi....
August 31, 2021
News in-depthCoronavirus
India’s devastating second wave: ‘It is much worse this time’
...Many people in the administration across the country did not expect that there would be a ‘this time around’,” said K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, a charity....
April 21, 2021
Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
Can we defeat death?
...The realisation that cells could be rewound, Benjamin Button-style, to a juvenile state earned Yamanaka a Nobel Prize....
October 29, 2021
Donald Trump
In Trump’s hometown, crowds celebrate his defeat
...After a female cyclist coasted into Central Park, arms outstretched, crying “freedom”, two men replied: “Shut the f**k up.” But such discordant notes appeared to be few and far between....
November 7, 2020
Due Diligence
Selling a Spac dream: auto start-ups angle for Tesla shine Premium content
...Adelson’s career was also marked by his a controversial side gig as a media magnate — his Israeli newspaper has been criticised as being a mouthpiece for the country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
January 13, 2021
Due Diligence
Musical chairs: Europe’s top banks shuffle leadership Premium content
...But the process has been tarnished by messy disputes, slowing down resolutions as ousted owners, creditors and bidders bicker in and out of court, write the FT’s Stephanie Findlay from New Delhi and Benjamin...
December 2, 2020

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