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  • 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
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump threatens to hit critical minerals with tariffs

    US president could escalate trade conflict with Beijing by launching probe into supplies

    Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Drug prices
    Trump pledges to cut drug prices for Americans

    Latest executive order could shake up US pharma industry

    Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Harvard University
    Trump threatens to scrap Harvard’s tax-exempt status

    Warning signals new escalation in US president’s attacks on universities

    A general view of Harvard University campus
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    The economic consequences of a mad king

    Trump’s delight in doing whatever he wishes in the moment is incompatible with stability and sustained dynamism

    James Ferguson illustration of the word tariffs in the style of a ransom note
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    US envoy calls for Iran to ‘eliminate’ nuclear programme

    Steve Witkoff’s comments come after he signalled Washington might accept limited uranium enrichment by Tehran

    Steve Witkoff, left, and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, right
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    White House Watch
    Wall Street sours on Donald Trump

    Also in today’s newsletter, Mark Carney’s pitch that he can beat back the US president’s threat to Canada

    Trump hats hang above a trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Edward Luce
    Trump is halfway to making America a police state

    The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point

    US President Donald Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele
  • 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
    Trump tariffs
    Carmaker shares jump after Trump signals ‘help’ for industry

    President acknowledges companies ‘need a little bit of time’ before they can manufacture in US

    Toyota vehicles at the Port of Long Beach
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Chinese politics & policy
    Xi urges Vietnam to oppose Trump’s tariff ‘bullying’

    US president says countries are trying to ‘screw’ America as China looks to shore up ties with trade partners

    Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Vietnam’s National Assembly chair Tran Thanh Man in Hanoi on Monday
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    The Big Read
    How Wall Street got Donald Trump wrong

    Titans of finance and business are beginning to realise they misread the president’s second-term priorities

    Montage of Donald Trump in golf shirt and Maga cap, with hands on his hips, against a background picture of the New York Stock Exchange
  • 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
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
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    CNN’s Mark Thompson: ‘Our entire industry is going through a revolution’

    Media executive plans to launch a ‘suite’ of digital subscription services to arrest long-term decline in cable

    Mark Thompson
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Michael Moritz
    Want a winning economic policy for America? Learn from Andy Grove

    The late Intel CEO proposed establishing a bank to back companies that scaled their factories in the US

    FT montage of former Intel chief Andy Grove with red, white and blue lines behind him
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Harvard University
    Trump administration halts $2.2bn in Harvard funds after university defies pressure

    Move marks escalation in stand-off between White House and US universities

    Protest at Harvard University
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US takes step towards chip and pharma tariffs with new probes

    Donald Trump also says he is considering ‘something to help car companies’

    Donald Trump talks to the media in the Oval Office
  • 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
    US immigration
    El Salvador’s Bukele refuses to repatriate man wrongly deported from US

    President of Central American country and American officials say there is no basis for his return

    US President Donald Trump, right, and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House
  • 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
    Nato
    Nato acquires AI military system from Palantir

    Alliance to use artificial intelligence developed by company of prominent Donald Trump backer

    A man walks underneath a Palantir logo
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump, Truss and the ‘moron premium’ Premium content

    The educational value of the former UK prime minister’s cautionary tale is timeless

    Former UK prime minister Liz Truss speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Simon Fraser
    Britain should embrace European and other middle powers

    With the US and China facing off in a tariff war, the time has come for the UK to pivot

    France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • 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
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