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News in-depthArtificial intelligence
US seeks alliance with Abu Dhabi on artificial intelligence
...Commerce secretary Gina Raimondo has been closely involved, a person briefed on the negotiations said, as the highest levels of the US government worked to develop closer ties between American tech groups...
April 20, 2024
US politics & policy
US defence secretary takes blame for concealing hospital stay
...of the United States didn’t know about it, I think it . . . was a dereliction of duty,” Pence added while on a visit to Tel Aviv....
January 7, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
US society
Columbia University’s ‘Gaza encampment’ becomes centre of US stand-off
...Shafik has also come under pressure from prominent donors, including Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots American football team, who described his alma mater as unrecognisable...
April 24, 2024
US-China relations
Yellen says US-China relations on ‘stronger footing’
...Drawing on the historical example of China flooding global steel markets, the US Treasury secretary said previous bouts of overcapacity had “decimated industries across the world and in the United States...
April 8, 2024
Middle East conflict
US and Europe seek to dissuade Israel from striking back against Iran
...The frantic diplomacy came as Herzi Halevi, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, signalled that his country was preparing a response to the barrage of more than 300 missiles, rockets and drones fired...
April 15, 2024
Middle East conflict
Iran seizes Israel-linked container vessel
...“We are in touch with the Iranian authorities through diplomatic channels, both in Tehran and in Delhi, to ensure [the] security, welfare and early release of Indian nationals,” an official said....
April 13, 2024
FT Live
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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
News in-depthDonald Trump
Donald Trump prepares his final pitch on presidential immunity
...They added: “Presidential immunity for official capacity crimes would create an untenable dilemma for every member of the military chain of command ordered to execute an order, particularly if officers disagree...
April 24, 2024
UK defence spending
Sunak pledge to boost defence spending raises prospect of cuts elsewhere
...John Healey, shadow defence secretary, said that if Labour won the general election, expected later this year, it would conduct a review within its first year in office to assess the state of the armed forces...
April 24, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Biden to warn Beijing against South China Sea aggression
...Yellen in China: Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said the US-China relationship was on “a stronger footing” now than a year ago as she ended her second official Treasury visit to China....
April 8, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Israel army at ‘gates of Gaza city’
...“We are at the gates of Gaza City,” said Brigadier General Itzik Cohen of the Israel Defense Forces....
November 2, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: The great British bargain show
...And you know, similarly, you look at big banks, you look at Barclays and Citigroup in the United States, Barclays in the UK, Citigroup in the United States....
March 26, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
EU and US accelerate sea corridor plan to feed Gaza
...In his State of the Union address, Biden said Israel must allow more aid into Gaza. “To the leadership of Israel I say this....
March 8, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Powell expects Fed to make three rate cuts this year
...Blinken returns to the Middle East: The US secretary of state visits the region again this week, in a trip that will include stops in Israel, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the West Bank....
February 5, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
US vetoes UN resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
...The vote on the draft resolution put forward by the United Arab Emirates underscored the US and Israel’s growing diplomatic isolation, as the Israel Defense Forces continue to press the military effort against...
December 8, 2023
Inside Politics
UK’s undecided voters offer little solace to Tories
...If the Conservatives won over this group, they would mitigate the scale of their defeat, but they would not prevent a Labour victory, as Robert explains in his column: Given the state of the polls, neither...
April 4, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewNon-Fiction
Fragile alliance — is Nato still up for the fight?
...But, as the former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld once remarked, Nato has the lucky habit of being “saved” every decade by a new crisis between the Kremlin and the west....
April 3, 2024
Middle East
Iran seizes Gulf oil tanker in new threat to Middle East shipping
...Iran is the chief backer of forces opposed to Israel that it has dubbed the “axis of resistance”, which includes the Houthis, Hizbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, as well as militant groups in Syria and...
January 11, 2024
News in-depthTelegraph Media Group Ltd
How Britain’s Conservative establishment fought off a foreign media takeover
...Sir Robert Buckland, former Tory justice secretary, was relieved the issue had come to a head....
March 13, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Israel suffers deadliest day of the war
...Blinken in Africa: The US secretary of state is set to visit Nigeria as part of a week-long trip to the continent that started on Sunday....
January 23, 2024
The Big Read
Shipbuilding: the new battleground in the US-China trade war
...The result has been an overall decline in competitiveness and capacity in US shipbuilding yards, according to navy and union officials, as well as some labour economists....
March 12, 2024
FT Magazine
Battle for the American West
...“We’re not gonna do anything,” one official said. “The whole corner-crossing stuff is so up-in-the-air in the state.”...
April 13, 2024
Unhedged
Larry Summers: we haven’t nailed the landing yet Premium content
...None of those elections went the way I wanted them to, but in none of them did it occur to me to express alarm about the situation of the United States, the basic capacity of the United States as the world...
December 15, 2023
Geopolitics
Xi Jinping meets ‘old friend’ Bill Gates ahead of Antony Blinken’s China visit
...The meeting, in which Xi referred to Gates as an “old friend”, came ahead of US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s expected visit to Beijing this weekend, which was initially postponed in February by a...
June 16, 2023
Congress of the United States
US senator Robert Menendez indicted on federal bribery charges
...confirming senior state department officials....
September 22, 2023
FirstFT
FirstFT: House to vote on Ukraine aid
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak both said western countries were preparing sanctions on Tehran in an attempt to prevent escalation into a full-blown Middle East war...
April 16, 2024

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