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Netflix adaptation of sci-fi novel ‘The Three-Body Problem’ sparks anger in China

...“On the other hand, the Tencent version of the adaptation maintains a high level of respect for the original details of the novel, although it does omit certain sensitive scenes,” Ng added....

March 29, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

UK proposes plan to end Israel-Hamas war

...for the establishment of a Palestinian state....

January 27, 2024

FT Live

Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?

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Toby Nangle

Singapore has lessons for countries worrying about debt

...The Singaporean state has been rewarded for absorbing market risk in the form of a dividend — worth over three percentage point of GDP — which is often large enough to flip increasingly persistent primary...

March 28, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: The main takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union speech

...The US will set up a port on the Gaza coast for large ships carrying humanitarian supplies, the president confirmed in his State of the Union speech last night....

March 8, 2024

NBC Universal Inc

NBC cuts ties with former Republican party chair McDaniel after backlash

...She is the granddaughter of the state’s former governor George Romney and niece of Utah senator Mitt Romney....

March 26, 2024

Film

Girls State, the documentary offering ‘a crystal ball on the US’s political future’

...They picked the Midwestern state because they considered it emblematic of the wider country, with rural areas and ethnically and racially diverse cities, and because the programme was, for the first time...

March 22, 2024

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FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

US presidential election 2024

Joe Biden set to lay out the choice facing US voters in race for the White House

...The speech is an opportunity for the president to shift perceptions that have pushed down his approval ratings and left him trailing Trump in polls of voters in the swing states that will decide November...

March 7, 2024

US economy

This is the “rainy day” that states were saving up for

...And about half of that has been hiring by state and local educational systems, the bank points out, as school enrolment picks up for the first time since Covid-19 shutdowns: Before our ZeroHedge-ier readers...

January 23, 2024

Robert Shrimsley

Mandates are overrated — Keir Starmer just needs the win

...It will have the scope to do the type of things electors expect of Labour governments — be it on the NHS, industrial strategy, workers rights or state intervention....

February 7, 2024

Gillian Tett

A rotten system for sovereign debt restructuring needs fixing

...Last week, state legislators submitted a bill that seeks to change how the state’s law courts handle sovereign debt restructurings....

March 7, 2024

UK by-elections

Sunak faces tough by-election after MP Scott Benton quits

...electors by the end of the six-week petition period....

March 25, 2024

Correction

Correction: Office for Budget Responsibility

...The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that freezing fuel duty in the long run would cost the Treasury £6.3bn by the end of the decade, not more than £8bn as wrongly state in an article on...

March 19, 2024

Exchange traded funds

BlackRock splits custody business for Irish-domiciled ETFs

...State Street will continue to be the registrar and transfer agent for all Irish iShares ETFs....

February 14, 2024

Robert Shrimsley

‘Don’t knows’ will not save the Conservatives

...open goal the opposition left by saying they would review the Tory expansion in state-funded childcare....

April 3, 2024

Aveek Bhattacharya

The UK isn’t a nanny state — but for the sake of our health it should be

...With Starmer declaring that he is up for the fight when it comes to accusations he is promoting a nanny state, political commentators have been left trying to figure out where this surge of public health...

February 13, 2024

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Who would want to back Adam Neumann’s plan to save WeWork? Premium

...Neumann has plans to regain control of the company. The poor state of the commercial property market does not inspire much hope for a turnaround....

February 15, 2024

US politics & policy

All the president’s defendants: 19 face one-week deadline in Georgia Trump case

...Fake electors Shawn Still, Republican electorStill was one of 16 fake alternate electors in Georgia who signed a certificate falsely listing electors in the state. He faces seven criminal counts....

August 18, 2023

Robert Shrimsley

Big-government Tories have left Labour an open goal

...For anyone who thinks the Conservative party is turning back towards its small state beliefs, may I present the Football Governance bill....

March 20, 2024

Rail

Russia’s rail boosted by demand to move goods to Europe after Red Sea attacks

...Demand to move goods from Asia to Europe by rail via Russia has soared since the start of the Red Sea crisis, according to logistics companies and rail operators, boosting the finances of the country’s state-owned...

March 10, 2024

News in-depthUK defence spending

Lack of logistic support for carriers lays bare state of British navy

...HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of the UK’s two state of the art aircraft carriers, is due to steam out of Portsmouth naval base on Sunday to become the naval centrepiece of one of Nato’s biggest military exercises...

February 2, 2024

The Big Read

The Japanese semiconductor deal spooking rivals and investors

...by a state-backed fund....

January 29, 2024

Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast17 min listen

A travel guide for visiting all 50 US states

...He joins Lilah to tell us what he learned about the country, when he felt “this was worth it” and “this was a huge mistake”, what tips he has for our own road trips, and places in the US we might want to...

January 8, 2024

Markets InsightTony Yates

Climate change should be tackled by the state, not central banks

...For those sovereigns that have enough fiscal space to handle climate problems, this will look like a reduction in their cost of finance at the expense of the private sector, and more fragile states....

January 4, 2024

Letter

Letter: Look to the ancient past for new ideas on peace

...Their several client states were forced to agree and the result was a long peace that held for decades. It is time for a definitive resolution of the conflict....

December 15, 2023

Gideon Rachman

Israel, Palestine and the mirage of a two-state solution

...If anyone has a better idea than two states for two peoples, the moment to come forward is now....

December 11, 2023

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