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US foreign policy

  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Trump will abandon Ukraine peace talks ‘in days’ without progress, warns Rubio

    US secretary of state says Washington will focus on ‘other priorities’ if war cannot be ended soon

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    Jean-Noël Barrot and Marco Rubio walk together after a meeting in Paris
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Yuval Noah Harari
    Yuval Noah Harari: Trump’s world of rival fortresses

    In the US president’s vision of post-liberal global disorder the weak should always surrender to the strong, writes the historian, philosopher and author

    Illustration showing the top of the Statue of Liberty’s crown with a searchlight shining out of it over the top of a fortress wall
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    US and Ukraine sign memorandum of intent on minerals deal

    Officials say memo was signed ‘virtually’ and hope to finalise a full economic accord by the end of next week

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the press on Thursday prior to the signing of the memorandum of intent
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    ReviewHistory books
    The World of the Cold War — timely reading in an age of US, Russia and China tensions

    Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today

    A man puts cement on top of a row of grey bricks. There is another man nearby watching him
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi defence minister visits Iran ahead of US talks

    Prince Khalid bin Salman is highest-ranking royal to hold meetings in Tehran in decades

    Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammed Bagheri and Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Tehran
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    US places sanctions on Chinese refinery over Iran oil purchases

    Trump administration accuses Shandong Shengxing Chemical of buying crude as it increases pressure on Beijing and Tehran

    A gas flare on an oil production platform is seen alongside an Iranian flag
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Government of Hungary
    US lifts sanctions against Hungarian PM’s ‘eminence grise’

    Antal Rogán was blacklisted by Biden administration for alleged corruption, but Washington now seeks to ‘turn page’

    Antal Rogán
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa’s new US envoy brushes off past criticism of ‘racist’ Trump

    Corruption whistleblower Mcebisi Jonas says there will be ‘no quick fixes’ after Washington expelled ambassador

    Mcebisi Jonas speaking at a summit in September 2024
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Nato
    US ‘paradise’ base on alert as Europe braces for Trump’s Nato cuts

    Key to alliance’s anti-missile shield, Rota is among 38 bases across Europe at risk of a withdrawal by Washington

    A woman plays with a dog on the beach as warships are seen berthed at the US naval base in Rota, southern Spain
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    US-UK relations
    JD Vance predicts ‘good chance’ of US-UK trade agreement

    US vice-president says Trump administration is ‘working very hard’ with Starmer government on tariffs

    JD Vance is speaking at a podium while Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Technology sector
    Trump official tells Europe to choose US or Chinese tech

    FCC chair Brendan Carr urges ‘western allies’ to pick Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on April 13 2025
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Trump again blames Ukraine for starting war with Russia

    US president reignites war of words with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy

    A Ukrainian rescuer working at the burning site of a Russian missile attack in Sumy, Ukraine on April 13
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The narrow window for a nuclear deal with Iran

    Trump team should accept that both Washington and Tehran need to make compromises

    Young women walk past a dove of peace mural in Tehran
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Political espionage
    EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears

    European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices

    Old mobile phones and keyboards
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Business education
    US business school network slammed for Russian participation at key event

    Ukrainians complain after Moscow institution attends Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business conference

    US and Ukrainian flag
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russia targets Ukrainian city on Palm Sunday

    Dozens killed and more than 100 injured in missile attack on Sumy

    Firefighters work to douse flames after the missile strike in Sumy
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Trump should offer Panama more than threats

    Washington has extracted concessions, but now needs to give something back

    Cargo containers sit stacked as cranes load and unload containers from cargo ships at the Panama Canal’s Balboa port
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    News in-depthUS-Iran tensions
    US and Iran agree to follow-up talks over nuclear crisis

    Steve Witkoff and Abbas Araghchi met briefly after indirect negotiations in Oman

    US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    Trump’s championing of Afrikaner grievances sparks backlash in South Africa

    US president and his adviser Elon Musk seize on discredited claims to launch economic assault against African nation

    Afrikaner families climb a hill in Orania, South Africa
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    The Weekend Essay
    The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump

    Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?

    A montage of two photographs of two men in suits
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Oren Cass
    Europe must choose between America and China

    In a multi-polar world, old certainties about the US security guarantee and access to markets no longer hold

    U.S. President Donald Trump
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Greenland
    US fires Greenland base commander after JD Vance visit

    Col Susannah Meyers accused of ‘subverting’ Donald Trump’s agenda

    JD Vance and Usha Vance listen to Colonel Susan Meyers, who gestures while speaking
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    US ambassador to Ukraine to leave her post

    Bridget Brink is stepping down after policy disagreements with the Trump administration

    Bridget Brink
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    So much for the Trump Brexit dividend

    The US president’s tariffs on UK cars and other exports reveal the hollow promise of global Britain

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of a hand extending from a UK flag to shake an equivalent US-flag hand.
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Starmer shifts focus in US trade talks to cutting 25% tariff on UK cars

    Prime minister admits he does not know if Trump can be persuaded to scrap 10% levy on all imports

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks next to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
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