Secretary of State of Illinois

January 27, 2024

Chinese state banks are lenders to Thames Water’s parent company

...Two Chinese state-owned banks hold a crucial role in the future of Thames Water, as part of a group of lenders involved in a stand-off over debt at the parent company of Britain’s largest water utility....

April 4, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

Labour Party UK

Labour shadow justice secretary defends UK’s membership of ECHR

...out of this debate . . . most of the British public wants to see a two-state solution.”...

April 21, 2024

Thames Water

Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation

...cent of their money....

April 18, 2024

Middle East conflict

Israel to retaliate against Iran, warns Cameron

...“They have all kinds of suggestions and advice, I appreciate it, but I want to make it clear — we will make our own decisions, and the State of Israel will do everything necessary to defend itself.”...

April 17, 2024

News updates from the Iowa caucuses: Trump called as winner of state race, DeSantis edges out Haley to finish second

‘No difference’ between Trump and his rivals, says Illinois governor

...Biden was “ready for any one of them”, he added....

January 15, 2024

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

UK politics opinion polls

UK general election poll tracker

...The Financial Times’ UK poll tracker combines voting intention surveys published by major British pollsters ahead of the general election expected this year....

April 23, 2024

Northern Ireland

Belfast-based band mounts legal challenge after UK government blocks grant

...it “state-sponsored censorship”....

February 9, 2024

JPMorgan Chase & Co

Russian court orders seizure of $440mn from JPMorgan

...Last summer, a Russian court froze about $36mn worth of assets owned by Goldman following a lawsuit by state-owned bank Otkritie....

April 24, 2024

Chinese society

China’s ageing tech workers hit by ‘curse of 35’

...The curse of 35 is a source of major anxiety for tech workers....

April 23, 2024

City of London

Michael Gove pauses City of London plan to demolish old Museum of London

...The City corporation said it would “await the secretary of state’s final decision” on whether to review London Wall West or let it go ahead....

April 17, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Qatar reconsiders mediator role between Hamas and Israel

...state over the weekend....

April 18, 2024

Post Office Ltd

Ex-Post Office chair accused of using ‘offensive’ term about job candidate

...But the report found that Staunton, who was sacked as chair of the Post Office by business secretary Kemi Badenoch in January, had used discriminatory language and “infantilising” terms about women during...

April 18, 2024

US foreign policy

Blinken pushes for ‘enduring’ Gaza peace deal on regional tour

...US secretary of state Antony Blinken held talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday before he was due to head to Qatar....

February 6, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Middle East violence tests US effort to avert regional conflagration

...US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be in the Middle East this weekend and next week for his fourth trip since October, seeking to mitigate the risk of a wider conflict....

January 6, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Food & Beverage

Plans to label UK homegrown food sparks ministerial row

...The business secretary set out a series of conditions before her department would agree to a public consultation on the labels, including a “quantitative analysis of the impact of this policy on food prices...

February 21, 2024

Climate change

John Kerry to retire as top US climate negotiator

...According to Axios, which first reported that Kerry would step back, the former Massachusetts senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state will switch to helping Joe Biden...

January 13, 2024

ReviewFiction

Caledonian Road — Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-Britain novel

...If this is a state-of-the-nation novel, O’Hagan paints a bleak portrait....

March 28, 2024

UK immigration

Home secretary sacks UK’s chief inspector of borders

...Home secretary James Cleverly took the unprecedented step on Tuesday of sacking the UK’s chief inspector of borders and immigration following a string of press interviews that were highly critical of the...

February 20, 2024

US Election Countdown

Opening salvos in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial

...And today, the president will visit Trump’s adopted home state of Florida, one week before its new six-week abortion ban goes into effect....

April 23, 2024

UK foreign policy

David Cameron warns US politicians against ‘appeasement’ of Russia

...He is not expected to meet President Joe Biden, who is separately hosting Fumio Kishida, prime minister of Japan, for a state visit....

April 10, 2024

Letter

Letter: Chicago’s skyscrapers are actually well-grounded

...Jean BognerResearch Professor EmeritaDepartment of Earth & Environmental SciencesUniversity of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, US Letter in response to this letter: Liverpool’s links with...

February 26, 2024

US immigration

Biden orders top aides to Mexico for border talks amid migrant crisis

...Antony Blinken, secretary of state; Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security; and White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall are to meet López Obrador and his team “to discuss further...

December 21, 2023

UK politics

Michael Gove names groups that could fall foul of new UK extremism definition

...“Michael Gove will not divide us in his ideological pursuit of a policy that has been rejected and criticised by victims of terrorism, ex-home secretaries and even the Archbishop of Canterbury,” she wrote...

March 14, 2024

Retail & Consumer industry

Reckitt shares plunge after $60mn damages over baby formula

...The jury in an Illinois state court came to the conclusion that one of its formulas for premature babies, Enfamil Premature 24, which is manufactured by Reckitt’s US infant formula business Mead Johnson,...

March 15, 2024

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