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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s military on Friday called for the evacuation of Palestinians from the northern Gaza strip to southern Gaza, in a move the UN said would affect 1.1mn people and could result in a “calamitous situation”.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US secretary of state Antony Blinken is due to arrive in Israel on Thursday as Washington steps up efforts to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from spiralling into a regional conflict. His visit comes hours after

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The death toll in Israel has reached 1,200 people as the country discovered new evidence of mass killings by Palestinian militant group Hamas and prepared for a large-scale operation in Gaza following an unprecedented attack

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military bombarded more than 200 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight and said it had secured its border with the enclave, three days after an incursion by Hamas triggered the worst war on

The Israeli military bombarded targets in the Gaza Strip overnight and said it had secured its breached border barrier with the enclave, three days after an unprecedented incursion by the militant group Hamas into Israel triggered the country’s worst war in decades. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled their homes, according to the UN, after

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel faced a “long and difficult war”, as its forces continued to wage gun battles with Palestinian militants on Sunday morning following the unprecedented multipronged attack by Hamas that stunned the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Israel declared a “state of alert for war” on Saturday after Hamas launched its biggest attack on the country for years, firing a barrage of rockets and sending militants across the border from the Gaza

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US employment myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US added 336,000 new jobs in September, far more than expected, pushing bond yields to a new 16-year high and fuelling investors’ anxieties that interest rates will stay higher for longer. The Bureau of

Receive free Chinese business & finance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese business & finance news every morning. Belgium’s intelligence service has been monitoring Alibaba’s main logistics hub in Europe for espionage following suspicions Beijing has been exploiting its growing economic presence in the west. European governments

Rishi Sunak axed the northern leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line to Manchester, promised sweeping education reforms and announced a smoking crackdown as he told the Conservative party conference he would take “radical” decisions to change Britain. The prime minister argued that £36bn could be saved by scrapping HS2 north of Birmingham, and that

Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Rishi Sunak has defended his plan to axe the HS2 high speed rail line to Manchester, criticising the “enormous” cost of the project and saying he was prepared to take tough decisions. The

Receive free Asia-Pacific economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Asia-Pacific economy news every morning. The World Bank has cut its forecast for China’s growth next year and warned that east Asia’s developing economies are set to expand at one of the lowest rates in five decades, as

Receive free Carbon tax updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Carbon tax news every morning. Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK climate targets has left British exporters facing hundreds of millions of pounds in EU carbon border taxes within the next decade — revenues that otherwise would have flowed

Receive free BP PLC updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest BP PLC news every morning. The allegations that prompted Bernard Looney’s resignation from BP included an accusation that the chief executive promoted women with whom he had undisclosed past relationships, according to people familiar with the matter. The

Receive free UK GDP updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK GDP news every morning. The UK economy has bounced back from the Covid-19 pandemic much faster than previously estimated, according to new official figures that show Britain is no longer the worst performer in the G7. In the

Receive free OpenAI updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest OpenAI news every morning. OpenAI is in advanced talks with former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son to launch a venture to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence”, fuelled by more than $1bn in funding from

Receive free UK financial regulation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK financial regulation news every morning. The UK’s top financial regulator is preparing to launch a sweeping review of valuations in private markets, according to people familiar with its plans, amid growing fears over the impact of

Receive free HS2 updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest HS2 news every morning. Rishi Sunak has been warned by the new US owners of Birmingham City football club, in which NFL superstar Tom Brady has a minority stake, that he will damage trust in Britain if he aborts

Receive free Chinese business & finance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese business & finance news every morning. A senior Nomura banker has been banned from leaving mainland China, a move connected to a long-running investigation into the country’s top tech dealmaker Bao Fan, according to people

Receive free Sovereign bonds updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Sovereign bonds news every morning. Hedge funds have been rushing to unwind bets against Britain’s £2.5tn government bond market as investors become increasingly convinced that the Bank of England is nearing the end of its rate rising campaign.