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  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    ExplainerUK society
    Why are the far right rioting in England?

    A horrific knife attack, disinformation and extremists whipping up anger have all played a role in triggering a shocking outburst of violence

    Trouble flares during an anti-immigration protest outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, on Sunday
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Middle East conflict
    Western governments step up calls for citizens to leave Lebanon

    Fears grow of all-out war in region after assassinations linked to Israel

    Smoke rises after a strike in Lebanon near the border with Israel
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    The Week Ahead
    Kamala Harris set to name her running mate

    Plus, the Olympics draw to a close, earnings season rolls on and the UK celebrates the precious gift of childhood fun

    Kamala Harris arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Tuesday last week
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Anne-Marie Slaughter
    What might a Harris foreign policy look like?

    From personal experience she grasps how domestic political divisions can undermine American power abroad

  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Equities
    Is the rotation into small-cap stocks over?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Nigeria
    Nigerian president calls for end to protests

    A dozen people have been killed in four days of unrest over soaring inflation

    Nigerian security forces patrol the streets of Lagos
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    UK society
    Starmer vows ‘extremists’ will feel full weight of law after riot arrests

    Judges consider keeping courts open all night after mobs clash with police across England

    Police face down a mob in Liverpool on Saturday
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    News in-depthUK housebuilding
    Labour faces tough task in winning community support for building boom

    Experts warn that public backing for development is essential in new government’s bid to end housing crisis

  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Lithium
    World’s biggest lithium producer urges state help to compete with China

    US-based Albemarle cuts expansion plans amid struggles for processor of key mineral for electric cars

    Sacks of lithium carbonate at an Albemarle processing facility in Chile
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Factory or front line? Ukrainian businesses fight to retain workers

    Issue of who should be exempt from draft pits military hungry for manpower against those seeking to keep economy moving

    Montage of a steel mill and frontline soldiers
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Lobbyists offer political advisers ‘panic premium’ in tussle with new Labour MPs

    Westminster arrivals face stiff competition for staff as Tory-affiliated PR outfits offer to treble salaries

    Montage of hands shaking over parliamentary portcullis crest
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Climate change
    Brazil minister warns carbon credit buyers to beware fraud

    Environment minister Marina Silva says alleged criminal schemes in Amazon could harm reputation of credits

    Marina Silva during a news conference
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Can the Rolls-Royce rally continue?

    Erginbilgiç targets post-2027 growth in bid to turn FTSE 100 engineer around for the long-haul

    Rolls-Royce boss Tufan Erginbilgiç
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Democratic party’s ‘Trump is weird’ strategy rattles Republicans

    Kamala Harris’s campaign shifts attack lines in effort to win the White House

    Kamala Harris speaks at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia this week
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Utilities
    Surging AI power demand boosts utility stocks

    Investors have found a cheaper way to play the market’s hot new obsession

    Google data centre in Columbus, Ohio
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Tony Barber
    Resist ‘fake news’ but don’t exaggerate its power

    One hundred years on, the Zinoviev Letter illustrates how election results have deeper causes than disinformation

    Ben Hickey illustration of a snake wrapped around a pile of newspapers.
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    JD.com
    JD.com’s founder ‘still running’ ecommerce group from overseas

    Despite stepping down as chief in 2022, Richard Liu has continued to quietly steer the business from London

    Richard Liu, founder and chair of JD.com
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Venezuela
    Venezuelan opposition leader emerges from hiding at rally amid crackdown

    The US and several other countries have recognised Maduro challenger Edmundo González as the true winner

  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    St Lucia’s Julien Alfred takes gold in women’s 100 metres

    World champion Sha’Carri Richardson bags silver after top Jamaican rival no-show

  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Iran
    Iran blames Israel for ‘short range’ strike that killed Hamas leader

    Revolutionary Guards vow to inflict ‘severe punishment’ after Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Tehran

  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Haifa waits uneasily for Hizbollah’s retribution

    The northern Israeli port city is bracing for the militant group to bring war to its doorstep

    A medical professional working at an underground emergency hospital in a parking lot at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    UK equities
    UK mid-caps outshine blue-chips as investors bet on economic rebound

    Infrastructure and building-related stocks advance on hopes Labour policies will spur growth

    A man carries a bag of cement at the Vauxhall depot of building material supplier Travis Perkins in London
  • 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
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Hizbollah
    Hizbollah-backed newspaper says US was complicit in commander’s assassination

    Al Akhbar accuses Washington’s envoy of misleading militant group

  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Picking the next pope Premium content

    Vatican-watchers are debating who might succeed Francis at the head of a Catholic Church rife with internal tensions

    Pope Francis attends a special audience with altar servers in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican
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