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...Washington and the EU are preparing new sanctions on the Islamic republic, in part to dissuade Israel from escalating the conflict with Tehran by retaliating....
...Kissinger was educated at George Washington High School in New York before moving to City College of New York. He became a naturalised American in 1943 and joined the US Army as a private....
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit Having recently given in to the temptation of Temu (six water glasses for £5.49, thank you very much), I am full of questions about the sudden rise of this...
...As the annual World Bank-IMF joint spring meetings come to a close in Washington, everyone should be aware of the risks Plender sets out....
...Curbing exports from Tehran will be difficult: the country is exporting more oil than at any time in six years, our energy editor Malcolm Moore reports....
...Lord David Cameron is heading to Washington for a flurry of meetings with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders in an effort to try and help unblock US funding for Ukraine....
...But two influential former prime ministers — Paul Keating and Malcolm Turnbull — have made scathing criticisms....
...Malcolm Gooderham London, W1, UK...
...China was never party to the Washington-Moscow accords of the post-cold war era....
...It is probably 50-50 whether they [Russia] would cut off supplies or carry on,” says Malcolm Critchley, chief executive of ConverDyn, a US-based provider of uranium conversion services....
...The big political event this week was Xi Jinping’s first trip to the US in six years as Beijing and Washington try to defuse some of the tension between them....
...Additional reporting by Maiqi Ding in Beijing Letter in response to this article: Don’t expect US-Sino relations to thaw quickly / From Malcolm Gooderham, London, W1, UK...
...In Washington, meanwhile, Lauren Fedor covered the mutiny that removed Kevin McCarthy as the Speaker (or leader) of the lower chamber of Congress....
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit Some days this week felt like the seasonal news drought....
...Albanese’s China trip, the first for an Australian prime minister since Malcolm Turnbull’s in 2016, comes on the heels of a visit to Washington last month....
...There was a hint of what was to come in June, when the prime minister visited a school in Washington DC and described chess as “a great skill and really good for helping you think”....
...On the other hand, it brackets me with authors who are incomparably richer and more successful than I am — such as Malcolm Gladwell and Yuval Noah Harari. That’s the kind of insult I like!...
...The Glazer family has owned United since a £790mn leveraged buyout led by the late Malcolm Glazer, whose use of debt to fund the acquisition infuriated fans of the club....
...Something to watch Last weekend was the FT Weekend festival in Washington DC....
...(The Washington Post) Anjli Raval, management editor Consultants tell me they get a bad rap. Articles like this don’t help their cause....
...Twelve US presidents — Washington, Jefferson and Clinton among them — lost fathers early in life....
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit • You don’t have to understand the finer points of crypto currency to appreciate the compelling human drama at the centre of the collapse of the FTX crypto...
...As I write this in Washington, Britain’s economic credibility on the international stage has noticeably plummeted....
...Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute, a defence think-tank in London, said Nato was “back on a cold war mission” with its primary purpose being “deterrence of Russia”....
...Unlike some other authors in the genre, such as Malcolm Gladwell, who tend not to offer explicit advice, Newport has leaned into the practical....
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