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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a US bid to take ownership of around 50 per cent of the rights to his country’s rare earth minerals and is trying to negotiate a better deal, according to several people familiar with the matter. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered Zelenskyy the deal during a visit to Kyiv

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accountancy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK ministers are exploring further scaling back legislation aimed at reforming the audit market as they seek to ease regulation on businesses in a push to boost economic growth. Ministers overseeing the Audit Reform and Corporate

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hamas released three more Israeli men from captivity in Gaza on Saturday, after the increasingly fragile four-week ceasefire nearly collapsed in a week of brinkmanship. The Israelis were handed over to the International Committee of

Britain is “going bust” in its pursuit of net zero and its zeal to tackle climate change without collective action from the rest of the world, the right-leaning media tycoon behind GB News has told the Financial Times. Hedge fund boss Sir Paul Marshall is urging the UK government to repeal the Climate Change Act

European leaders arrived at the Munich Security Conference this week beset by challenges from both east and west: the looming threat of an aggressive Russia, compounded by sudden confirmation of some of their worst fears about the direction of the US under Donald Trump. In a double blow to Ukraine on Wednesday, Trump announced he

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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Blackstone Group has put First Eagle Investment Management up for sale for more than $4bn in an attempt to offload a large stake that the US private equity group has owned for a decade. Blackstone

Sir Keir Starmer is seeking to strengthen diplomatic ties with Donald Trump’s administration by shifting the UK’s focus on artificial intelligence towards security co-operation rather than a “woke” emphasis on safety concerns. Tech secretary Peter Kyle announced on Friday that the UK’s AI Safety Institute, established just 15 months ago, would be renamed the AI

For President Trump, tariffs are a way of protecting American industries and safeguarding national security. For Tracy Skupien, they are a calamity that has pitched her company into crisis. Skupien is director of operations at Tompkins Products, a small family business in Detroit that takes imported cold drawn aluminium bar and turns it into transmission

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world In normal circumstances, the Cook Islands only attract attention from honeymooners, green activists and Kiwi diplomats. That is because the remote Pacific country has a security deal with New Zealand (and, by extension,

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU trade myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a former president of the European Central Bank and was prime minister of Italy. He oversaw a report on the future of European competitiveness Recent weeks have provided a stark reminder of

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Rachel Reeves has left the door open to raising taxes next month to help plug a fiscal hole, despite previously insisting the UK public finances were on a sound footing and that she would not

Show video info JD Vance has said Europe’s “threat from within” is graver than that posed by Russia and China in a confrontational speech that hit out at alleged infringements of democracy and provoked a furious response from the continent’s officials. In an address to the Munich Security Conference, the US vice-president criticised the cancellation

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hedge fund Citadel has made a £305mn bet against drugmaker GSK, the biggest short position against the company in more than a decade. Billionaire Ken Griffin’s hedge fund disclosed that it had entered the net

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A “voluntary commissioner” would oversee a panel of experts signing off assisted dying cases in place of a judge, according to the author of legislation going through the UK parliament. In an amendment to the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Social affairs myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. How on earth has Britain got itself into a situation where an assisted dying bill that will contain the strongest safeguards in the world is being presented as an attack on the vulnerable? Those of

US vice-president JD Vance has said he fears Europe’s “threat from within”, more than external actors such as Russia and China, in a confrontational speech that hit out at the state of democracy on the continent. In an address to the Munich Security Conference, Vance criticised the cancellation of a recent election in Romania, the

Donald Trump has unveiled an overhaul of the US’s trading relationship with many of its partners and allies, launching what he dubs a “fair and reciprocal plan” for trade. The president on Thursday signed a memo ordering his top advisers to come up with a “comprehensive” approach to tackle the US trade deficit, chiefly by

If you haven’t fallen for a scam yet, it’s not because you’re too clever — it’s because you’re lucky, says Nick Stapleton. Eventually, the right scam will get you on the wrong day. The investigative journalist and presenter of the BBC television series Scam Interceptors is renowned for battling with scammers as he races to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fast-fashion group Shein’s plans for a bumper UK stock market listing are likely to be delayed after Donald Trump’s crackdown on tariff-free imports of small goods from China.  Shein, which sells garments directly from thousands

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.