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Rare earths
The rare earths mine becoming a bellwether for US minerals policy
...The US Department of Defense stores critical minerals in the National Defense Stockpile, but its value has dropped from $9bn in 1989 to less than $1bn, or below 0.3 per cent of annual demand globally, as...
April 21, 2024
Stephen Bush
Little good can come of Starmer’s green U-turn
...director, and Matt Faulding, the Parliamentary Labour party secretary and the aide who more than any other has shaped the incoming class of Labour MPs thanks to his careful management of selections....
February 9, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Letter
Letter: What a new temple tells us about a ‘secular’ India
...In case there was any doubt about this, it should be laid to rest by what Nripendra Mishra (a former principal secretary to the prime minister) told the FT, that “every citizen of India” — and he goes on...
January 19, 2024
Labour Party UK
Labour vows to be ‘laser-focused’ on net zero despite £28bn U-turn
...Starmer announced the U-turn this month after a drawn out period of internal arguments over whether the pledge, made in 2021 when borrowing rates were close to zero, was still affordable at a time of higher...
February 27, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
US set to impose sanctions on Israeli military unit over alleged human rights abuses
...“You can expect to see them in the days ahead,” US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Friday when asked about recommendations he had received to impose sanctions based on the Leahy law....
April 21, 2024
US politics & policy
US defence secretary takes blame for concealing hospital stay
...Ryder said the deputy secretary of defence had been “prepared to act for and exercise the powers of the secretary, if required”....
January 7, 2024
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
War in Ukraine
US secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine
...“We think it is a good capability in this phase of the conflict.”...
April 24, 2024
News updates from February 16: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies, Trump ordered to pay more than $350mn in New York fraud case
Starmer blames green investment U-turn on Tories’ ‘broken’ economy
...Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer has defended the party’s U-turn on its £28bn-a-year green investment target, saying he was forced to ditch the plan because the “Tories have broken the economy”....
February 16, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Netanyahu admits Israeli forces killed aid workers
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken urged Israel to carry out “a swift, thorough and impartial investigation”, calling the WCK humanitarian workers “heroes” for their work to get food to civilians in Gaza...
April 2, 2024
John Thornhill
War by algorithm raises new moral dangers
...The experience of the Lavender system shows the tendency to over-trust the computer. It also highlights the difficulty of keeping “humans in the loop” in the heat of war....
April 11, 2024
News in-depthLabour Party UK
Labour’s green U-turn: how Starmer dropped £28bn ‘albatross’
...The substance and style of Labour’s biggest U-turn for years demonstrated the ascendancy of cautious Blairites inside Britain’s main opposition party, as the green prosperity plan joined a long list of radical...
February 8, 2024
Mike Studeman
The US needs a better strategic narrative or it will cede influence to China
...In the Department of Defense, information experts sometimes quip that it is easier to drop a bomb than get approval to launch a strategic “information fire”....
February 18, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Will Labour’s green U-turn weaken Starmer?
...Jim PickardThere have been an awful lot of U-turns....
February 9, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
US defence secretary rebukes Israel over killing of aid workers in Gaza
...US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has rebuked Israel over the killing of seven aid workers in Gaza, warning that it highlighted the dangers of Israel’s intention to attack the town of Rafah, where more than...
April 4, 2024
War in Ukraine
Pentagon rushes $1bn in weapons to Kyiv after Biden signs aid bill
...The Trump loyalists had vowed to oust Mike Johnson, Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, if he allowed a vote on the bill....
April 24, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
News in-depthCarvana
Carvana makes U-turn away from financial abyss
...Garcia vowed a high-speed U-turn. His company would slash costs and its heady ambitions for growth would take a back seat to proving efficiency....
March 21, 2024
US politics & policy
Hospitalisation of US defence chief Lloyd Austin came after cancer surgery complications
...Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, had blamed the communications breakdown in part on Austin’s chief of staff Kelly Magsamen, who was out for much of last week with the flu....
January 9, 2024
US politics & policy
Joe Biden stands by Lloyd Austin despite lack of hospitalisation disclosure
...“I remain concerned that vital chain of command and notification procedures were not followed while the secretary was under medical care,” said Jack Reed, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee...
January 8, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Israel kills and detains hundreds in Gaza hospital raid
...The Israeli raid on the hospital, once Gaza’s largest health facility, was launched early last week, with a brigade of special forces and tanks swiftly encircling the hospital, according to the Israel Defense...
March 24, 2024
Letter
Letter: Voter turnout is the way to defeat the populists
...Opponents of populism need to generate, in the minds of the liberal abstainers, a very strong determination to defeat the populists. The issue is not always about democracy....
January 30, 2024
LexESG investing
Asset managers’ green U-turn exposes energy transition cakeism Premium content
...One of the received tenets of the energy transition was that there was no trade-off between green investing and making money....
February 25, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
UN officials call for probe into reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals
...Nasser hospital, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza, was the site of an Israel Defense Forces raid in February, which Israeli officials said at the time was part of the search for hostages captured...
April 23, 2024
Letter
Letter: US air strikes show limits of Middle East deterrence
...Daniel R DePetris Fellow, Defense Priorities (a Washington DC Think-Tank) New Rochelle, NY, US...
February 9, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Israel details ‘grave mistake’ in killing of 7 Gaza aid workers
...Officials said the attack on workers from World Central Kitchen, one of the main providers of food to Gaza’s besieged population, came after Israeli forces mistakenly identified one of the WCK staff who...
April 5, 2024
LexElectric vehicles
EU carmakers’ strategic U-turns point them in the right direction Premium content
...Slowing growth of electric vehicle sales has caused a series of corporate U-turns. While sharp swerves are never fun, the change in direction is sensible....
February 1, 2024

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