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Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” as the US president cut short the Ukrainian leader’s long-sought meeting in the White House and told him to return “when he is ready for Peace”. In a joint appearance in the Oval Office on Friday, the two leaders clashed even before the

Donald Trump said he is working on a trade deal with the UK and suggested that Britain could escape tariffs if the countries secure one, but the allies failed to agree on US security guarantees for Ukraine. During a warm joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, the US president said his UK

US President Donald Trump has said his administration is working on a trade deal with the UK, while suggesting that Britain could escape tariffs if such an agreement were struck. During a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said that the US vice-president JD Vance and US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent were

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Show video info Donald Trump has said the US will sell “gold cards” costing $5mn each in exchange for permanent residency to attract wealthy foreigners to America. The US president made the announcement

In his eight months as UK health secretary Wes Streeting has set out low-key reforms to the health service, such as new hospital league tables and firing underperforming managers, as part of a vow to fix the “broken” NHS. On Tuesday, after Amanda Pritchard said she was quitting as chief executive of the body that

Despite the air of gloom hanging over China’s property market, work is well under way at a construction site in the north-west of Beijing. Yellow and green cranes nestle among the scaffolding, while lines of crushed limestone trail across the upturned earth. Backed by private developer Longfor, projects like this have helped power the world’s

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The thing about zealots, conspiracists, monomaniacs and cranks is their initial reasonableness. Few of them start off a conversation with their most extreme opinion. Their tactic is to establish common ground first, as a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hong Kong’s CK Infrastructure has made a preliminary £7bn bid to take a majority stake in Thames Water, while indicating that it would require the troubled utility’s bondholders to take significant haircuts. CKI, part of

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US government has indicated it will drop a long-running case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which it had alleged that the company’s hiring procedures unlawfully discriminated against asylum seekers and refugees. The

You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player Captured Ukrainian soldiers, forced to kneel, then shot in the back. Through the fog of Russia’s war on Ukraine this type of crime has become more and more visible – the execution of prisoners of war. Ukrainian prosecutors now believe Russia is executing POWs as part

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and warned that he “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left”, in a deepening rift between Washington

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Show video info Donald Trump has signalled there should be elections in Ukraine, in his first public remarks after the US held high-level talks with Moscow in Riyadh. Russia and the US on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe’s defence industry should consolidate in a handful of players able to meet the continent’s military needs after the Trump administration threatened to withdraw US support, the Belgian defence minister has said. EU capitals and

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Senior US and Russian officials will meet in Riyadh on Tuesday for talks that the Kremlin has hailed as a step to restoring full bilateral relations and ending the Ukraine war but which

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Generative AI is a transformative technology that has the potential to redefine the nature of work. Understanding its role in the workplace, and what makes it different from past automation, requires a shift from what

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It has been another bumpy week for Thames Water. Thousands of South London customers were left without water after a pipe burst. The Financial Times reported that half the utility’s sewage plants lack the pipes

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is author of ‘Command’ and the Substack ‘Comment is Freed’ On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to establish a negotiating process to end the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. HSBC is preparing to unveil $1.5bn of annual cost savings from chief executive Georges Elhedery’s radical overhaul of the bank. Europe’s largest lender will lay out the figures for the first time on Wednesday, February

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Activist Elliott Management has become BP’s third-largest shareholder after building a near-5 per cent stake worth almost £3.8bn, as it seeks to force the troubled UK oil major to cut spending on renewable energy and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is not expecting to get credit from the UK’s fiscal watchdog for her attempts to boost growth when it publishes its official forecasts next month. Reeves is braced for a steep downgrade