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Chris is a senior reporter at the FT. He has previously worked on the FT’s comment, leader-writing and public policy teams and spent five years as the public policy editor on BBC Newsnight.
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  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    News in-depthVisual story
    ‘We thought we lived in Tuscany’: Hizbollah strikes ravage Israel’s north

    Radar imagery and interviews show damage from cross-border attacks amid fears of escalating war

    Fires burn as a result of rockets launched from Lebanon into northern Israel, next to the city of Kiryat Shmona near the Lebanon border, on June 3 2024
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Free LunchRussian business & finance
    No time to give up on Russia sanctions Premium content

    Kremlin has not been stopped in its tracks — but it does have sand in its gears

    A Russian flag and missile cruiser
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Russian business & finance
    Spy-linked Russians restart trade with German toolmaker

    Heller Tools exported machinery to entities linked to a covert FSB smuggling network

    Machine tools in a Heller factory
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    UK targets more Russian-linked oil tankers with sanctions

    Western officials believe the strategy is proving effective in undermining Moscow’s ability to export crude

    An oil tanker in Novorossiysk, Russia
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Type of Russian missile that struck Kyiv children’s hospital uses western components

    Kremlin has turned to microprocessors and other technology not intended for military use to skirt sanctions

    A montage of photos of components of the Kh-101 missile and the aftermath of a missile strike
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Keir Starmer
    Starmer defends accepting freebies on security grounds

    Labour leader’s trips to see Arsenal bumped him up House of Commons register of interests

    Keir Starmer surrounded by journalists on a visit to drinks manufacturer Global Brands in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on Tuesday
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Starmer accepted £76,000 of freebies including tickets to over 20 football games

    Commons register of interests shows Labour leader’s declarations in last parliament spanned concerts to clothing

    Labour leader Keir Starmer at the Uefa Euros football final between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium in July 2021
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK general election 2024
    Labour campaign data reveals ambition for record majority

    Party sends activists deep into Conservative territory as polls suggest huge swing

    Montage of Labour leader Keir Starmer against background of FT data
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Lebanon
    Israel’s push to create a ‘dead zone’ in Lebanon

    As Hizbollah and Israel trade cross-border fire, radar data and interviews show attacks have ravaged 5km-wide strip of land

    A man checks a destroyed building on January 8, 2024 after an Israeli air raid in the village of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour diverts activists away from Lib Dem target seats

    Campaign data analysed by FT reveals electoral strategy likely to maximise Tory losses in the south of England

    Montage showing Labour leader Keir Starmer with Liberal Democrat leader  Ed Davey in the background
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Unusual burst of bets preceded Rishi Sunak’s election announcement

    Prime minister says he will ‘boot’ out anyone from the party found to have broken the rules

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak  announces election outside Downing Street
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Enterprise software
    Software group Fortnox restates figures after challenge from FT

    Highly valued Swedish software group has underplayed its market dominance

    A lakeside view of the southern Swedish city of Vaxjo where Fortnox is headquartered
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia scours China for second-hand machine tools

    Shadowy buyers for Moscow’s defence industry source old western-made machinery

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod, the country’s main tank factory in the Urals
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    UK imposes sanctions on Russian insurer protecting ‘shadow fleet’ of tankers

    Ingosstrakh targeted as part of western push to limit Kremlin’s oil revenues during Ukraine war

    Ingosstrakh offices
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US unveils tougher Russia sanctions for foreign banks

    Measure will discourage financial institutions in countries such as China from doing business with Moscow

    Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    UK political party funding
    SNP received no cash donations in 2024, says Electoral Commission

    Financial pressure mounts on Scotland’s ruling party after Tories and Labour boost election war chests in first quarter

    View of the Houses of Parliament from the other side of the river Thames in London
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Gazprom OAO
    Gazprom badly hurt by Ukraine war, says company-commissioned report

    Research ordered by Russian gas group warns it may not recover lost export revenues for more than a decade

    A worker turns a valve wheel in the yard at the Gazprom PJSC Atamanskaya compressor station, part of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline,
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Russia
    EU seeks to stop Russia’s imports of western luxury cars via Belarus

    Moscow is leveraging a loophole allowing Belarusian car dealers to circumvent sanctions

    A woman walks past a Lamborghini car dealership in Moscow
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    News in-depthAdani Group
    Adani suspected of fraud by selling low-grade coal as high-value fuel

    Indian conglomerate rejects accusations of inflating prices in transactions with state utility

    Gautam Adani
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Russian business & finance
    US Treasury threatens Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank over Russia unit

    Bank ditched asset-swap plan connected to oligarch Oleg Deripaska after letter warning of potential secondary sanctions

    People walk outside a Raiffeisen outlet in Moscow, Russia
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    The Big Read
    Biden’s gamble to rein in Netanyahu

    The US president paused a weapons shipment to Israel, piling pressure on Israel’s leader to change course. Will it work?

    Montage of images of Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, US and Israeli flags and war planes above
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    The Big Read
    The smuggling trail keeping Russian passenger jets in the air

    Sanctions have caused imports of spare parts to collapse. But airlines have found new ways to get components into the country

    A silhouetted figure stands in front of a huge map of the Americas covered in outlines of blue aircraft of various sizes
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    News in-depthRussian economy
    Russian finance flows slump after US targets Putin’s war machine

    Washington’s crackdown shows its leverage over global banking system

    A montage of a picture of Vladimir Putin and Russian roubles
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    North Korea
    US readies sanctions over Russian petroleum supplies to North Korea

    Washington says shipments exceeded 165,000 barrels in March and could continue ‘indefinitely’

    North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un surrounded by senior military personnel
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Visual story
    How Ukraine broke Russia’s grip in the Black Sea

    Attacks on Moscow’s warships have helped to establish an export corridor that could boost Kyiv’s war effort

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