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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    ‘We need time’: Syrians in Europe resist calls to return home

    Refugees in Germany and elsewhere are in ‘wait and see’ mode after fall of Assad regime

    Women draped in German and Syrian flags celebrate the fall of Assad in Duisburg on Tuesday
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Rupert Murdoch
    Murdoch family feud left hanging over media empire’s future

    A court ruling that rejected an attempt to overhaul the family trust leaves Rupert Murdoch and his children at odds

    Montage shows Rupert, Lachlan, James and Elisabeth Murdoch against a NewsCorp logo
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Indonesian economy
    Indonesia’s plan for wealth fund controlled by president stirs concern

    ‘Super-holding’ company intended to support Prabowo Subianto’s strategic projects and boost growth

    A montage showing Prabowo in front of an urban scene
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    ‘Race against time’: US struggles to respond to Syria turmoil during presidential transition

    Fast-moving events leave Washington fearful of Isis resurgence and divided over troop deployment

    Montage of Capitol Hill and images of rebel fighter with Syria’s flast and ruined poster image of Assad
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Romania
    The Wagner-style mercenaries plotting unrest in Romania

    Horaţiu Potra, a former member of the French Foreign Legion, was arrested with 20 other armed men headed for Bucharest

    Palace of the People in Bucharest, plus Horaţiu Potra from video
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    The criminal’s ‘go-to cryptocurrency’ has a new friend in the White House

    Howard Lutnick has defended the stablecoin company which has been used by gangs and US adversaries

    Donald Trump, left, and Howard Lutnick, right
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    The department of flags: Syrian rebels lay bare Assad’s corrupt state

    Transitional authorities grapple with bureaucracy filled with phantom jobs, pervasive graft and culture of obedience

    Mohammad Yasser Ghazal, a 36-year-old technocrat in the rebel Idlib government seconded from his job to help reconfigure the Damascus governorate
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    National Health Service
    NHS in England ‘confused’ about Starmer’s priorities, health bosses warn

    Focus on 18-week waiting list target risks diverting attention away from other critical areas, service leaders say

    Montage of hospital staff with line charts in background
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    The Assads’ Syrian heartland casts them aside

    Allies of the ruling family have fled while coastal areas from which the regime drew support are celebrating its downfall

    Destroyed naval vessels
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Ukraine military briefing
    Ukraine’s patchy fortifications help Russia advance

    Invading troops capture more territory in Donetsk and move closer to region’s western border

    Montage of a map and a tank
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Financial services
    Wall Street’s complex debt bonanza hits fastest pace since 2007

    Banks sell bonds backed by revenues from chicken wings, music catalogues and oil wells

    FT montage including photos of Shakira, Jon Bon Jovi and a Wall Street sign
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    US society
    ‘A threshold has been broken’: US gripped by hunt for motive in killing of executive

    Suspect in murder case draws morbid admiration from those aggrieved with country’s costly healthcare system

    A mug shot of Luigi Mangione at a correctional facility in Pennsylvania, US
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Whitehall reform
    Labour minister echoes Cummings with call to shake up civil service

    Government officials appear to share some of the analysis of maverick former No 10 adviser

    Pat McFadden
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Inside the Syrian prison at the heart of Assad’s police state

    On the outskirts of Damascus, Saydnaya holds the secrets to the fate of thousands who disappeared under the dictator

    A man holds onto bars at Sadnaya prison
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Advertising
    Omnicom aims for a Mad Men comeback with $13bn Interpublic deal

    Tie-up fulfils long-held ambition of chief John Wren as industry fights threat from large tech groups

    Omnicom chief John Wren  with logos of Omnicom and InterPublic
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Quantum technologies
    Scientific breakthrough gives new hope to building quantum computers

    Research from Google on ‘error correction’ could help create a working full-scale system this decade

    Visitors take a tour of Google’s Quantum Computing Lab in Goleta, California
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Tesla Inc
    The ‘Anti-Elon Tesla Club’: Musk’s politics gives some owners second thoughts

    Some customers are cooling on the best-known electric vehicle brand as the billionaire CEO cultivates close ties to Trump

    Loren Repollo and her Tesla in Florida
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Social Media
    How Russia-backed influencers meddled in Romania’s vote

    Bucharest scrapped presidential election after ‘illegal’ social media campaign used tactics seen in Moldova poll

    Montage of Russian flag, Romanian flag, voter and TikTok logo
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    How Bashar al-Assad’s regime crumbled

    Syria’s strongman was feted in Riyadh three weeks ago. Now he is an asylum seeker in Moscow

    An anti-government fighter stands near a defaced portrait of Bashar al-Assad in the city of Hama
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Turkey: will Erdoğan emerge as the big winner of the Syria crisis?

    A decade of backing Syria’s armed opposition could pay off while reshaping the region’s balance of power

    People hold a banner featuring Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as members of the Syrian community and supporters gather to celebrate the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    US trade
    US companies lawyer up in preparation for Trump’s trade wars

    Legal and accounting firms expect a fee bonanza from efforts to avoid expected tariffs and export controls

    Montage of US dollar bills and shipping containers
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Nomura Holdings Inc
    Scandal of attempted murder shakes Nomura’s doorstep sales army

    Violence against elderly couple comes as Japanese bank tries to convince customers to invest in riskier assets

    Kentaro Okuda
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Inside the fallen stronghold: Damascus erupts in joy as regime is swept away

    But euphoria is tempered by chaos as people overrun symbols of the former regime

    The crowds mass on and around a statue
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    How the Assad family built an empire of fear in Syria

    Hafez and his son Bashar killed countless people over five decades and oversaw the country’s descent into kleptocracy

    A combination image of a statue of Hafez al-Assad and a poster of Bashar al-Assad being trodden on by a rebel fighter
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Law
    Mastercard settlement puts UK class action lawsuits on trial

    Financial backer of landmark case complains £200mn deal ‘too low’, as other large companies face wave of claims

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