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  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
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    UK questioned US ‘control’ over its Iraq tactics one year into invasion

    Newly released documents reveal growing British frustration with Washington’s handling of the conflict in 2004

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    Stockpicking funds suffer record $450bn of outflows

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    Trinidad and Tobago declares state of emergency over surging violence

    Weapons from the US fuel crime wave around the Caribbean

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    US House Speaker Johnson clinches Trump’s endorsement

    Top House Republican gets crucial backing from the president-elect ahead of January 3 vote

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US to send Ukraine $6bn in fresh military and budget assistance

    Biden administration races to provide Kyiv with additional support before Donald Trump takes office

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    The great American alcohol debate

    New research and changing social attitudes may usher in a low-booze era in the US

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    Top Democrats warm to Musk’s US government cost-cutting mission

    Donald Trump has tasked billionaire Tesla boss with slashing $2tn from annual federal budget

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    Incoming president is picking nominees with vested interests to be in charge of key regulatory areas

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    Case could give justices a chance to curb the rush to sue in the most ideologically friendly venues

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  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    It’s time for Europe’s magical thinking on defence to end

    Europeans need to acknowledge that they can no longer rely on the US security guarantee

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  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
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    After a single term in the White House, the Georgia native became an influential moral voice

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  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
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    Consumers are ‘tapped out’ after years of high inflation and as pandemic-era savings have evaporated

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  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
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    What does Trump’s foreign policy chief Marco Rubio stand for?

    A world of turmoil awaits the Floridan if the US Senate confirms him as the next secretary of state

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  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The inspiring resilience of democracy

    Year of elections has shown the quest for accountable government is stronger than many had feared

    Voters queue up to cast their ballots at a polling station during the seventh and final phase of voting in India’s general election
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
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    Year in a word: Fascism

    The right-wing ideology is no longer confined to the dark underbelly of history

  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
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    President-elect’s new allies in Silicon Valley suffer backlash over foreign workers from his core supporters

    Elon Musk
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
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    Fired McKinsey ‘scapegoat’ expands damages claim against firm

    New legal threat follows $650mn settlement with US government over company’s opioid work

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  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
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    Trump asks Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban to enable ‘political solution’

    Legislation would force Chinese-owned ByteDance to divest video app by January 19 or be restricted in the US

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  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Markets
    Tech pullback drags Wall Street stocks lower

    Citigroup warns of looming tumult at end of strong year for equities

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  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Corporate bonds
    Global corporate borrowing climbs to record $8tn in 2024

    Companies take advantage of huge investor demand to pull forward bond issuance originally planned for next year

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  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    How America First will transform the world in 2025

    In different ways, the US, Russia and China have all become revisionist powers that are seeking radical change to the status quo

    US President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017.
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