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    One of the world’s most complex financial conglomerates is attracting scrutiny for circular flows of cash involving its global property portfolio

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    Two of the biggest names in global macro trading, Alan Howard and Chris Rokos, embody differing approaches to legacy

  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
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    Can international aid survive in a crumbling world order?

    As western governments dramatically scale back budgets, remaining funding is likely to be a more obvious tool of geopolitical interests

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    Countries want to squeeze more electricity from ageing power plants to help meet global demand, but the strategy has its own challenges

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  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
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    Starmer’s bid to save a western alliance in meltdown

    The British prime minister believes he can still be a bridge between the Trump White House and Europe. But is this anything other than wishful thinking?

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  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
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    Developers are constructing more in high-risk areas — illustrating the twin challenges of adapting to severe weather while addressing a housing shortage

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  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
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    As traditional parties decline, vaccine scepticism has become one of the anti-establishment forces filling the vacuum

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  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Can Syria’s new rulers sustain its fragile peace?

    Order is being maintained by a patchwork of factions. Combining them into a national security apparatus is a delicate process

  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    US foreign policy
    What’s really behind Trump’s abrupt pivot to Russia?

    The president has shocked allies by opening talks with Moscow and criticising Ukraine. Will this dramatic shift in US foreign policy hold?

    Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. As Trump has moved closer to Moscow, allies are scrambling to understand what his new approach means for the war in Ukraine
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Environment
    What an idle copper mine in Panama says about the green transition

    Just as the country is battling Donald Trump’s threats over the Panama Canal, a bitter environmental feud has reopened over the future of the country’s biggest mining project

    Aerial view of Cobre Panama mine in Donoso, province of Colon
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Will the bond market rein in Donald Trump?

    Tariffs, trade wars and plans for big tax cuts could all rattle investors in US Treasuries, but it’s a resilient market with few alternatives

    US Treasury Department building with a financial stock chart overlay and dollar bill graphics in the background
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Financial fraud
    Is the UK failing victims of fraud?

    A new compensation scheme is meant to protect against push payment scams, but experts say the system itself is in urgent need of repair

    A hand holding a credit card against a red background with warning symbols and bar graphs, suggesting financial risk or fraud
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    Apple Inc
    Apple’s quiet pivot to India

    The iPhone maker wants to diversify its supply chain beyond China. Can the world’s largest democracy deliver?

    Apple logo overlaid on the Indian flag colors
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s unspoken question: who will succeed Xi Jinping?

    The Chinese leader enjoys complete domination of party and state. But to maintain stability, he also needs to signal there is a succession process

    Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the foreground with four officials in red-tinted inset photos against a backdrop of the Chinese national emblem. From left to right; Yin Yong, Chen Jining, Chen Wenqing, Yin Li
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Is corporate America already souring on Trump?

    Optimism at the prospect of tax cuts and lighter regulation has given way to anxiety over trade policies

    Donald Trump looking straight ahead and pointing a finger, against a background of a roll of steel and ingots of aluminium and a world map
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