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Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” as the US president cut short the Ukrainian leader’s long-sought meeting in the White House and told him to return “when he is ready for Peace”. In a joint appearance in the Oval Office on Friday, the two leaders clashed even before the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has signalled he will throw his support behind the Chagos Islands deal negotiated between the UK and Mauritius, in a significant win for Sir Keir Starmer. Trump’s comments came as he

Until last month, Canada’s Liberal party appeared destined for electoral oblivion. Its leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had just quit amid plunging poll ratings, blamed by voters for a stagnating economy and taunted as a “woke liberal” by a newly elected US president. But Donald Trump’s first month in power has galvanised Canadian politics. He

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How much authority should democratic governments have to “snoop” on citizens’ online data and communications? The UK government has used new legal powers to demand that Apple create a “back door” enabling law enforcement bodies

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump is considering tariffs on countries that levy digital services taxes against American companies and tightening rules on Chinese investment in the US as he widens the scope of his global trade

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple is withdrawing its most secure cloud storage service from the UK, escalating a confrontation over a secret government demand to access customer data. The company said on Friday that it “can no longer offer”

Russia and the US have agreed to “lay the groundwork for future co-operation” on ending the Ukraine war and a lightning normalisation of relations, after their first high-level talks since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Following four-and-a-half hours of negotiations in Riyadh on Tuesday, the US state department said the two sides would appoint “high-level teams”

US vice-president JD Vance has said he fears Europe’s “threat from within”, more than external actors such as Russia and China, in a confrontational speech that hit out at the state of democracy on the continent. In an address to the Munich Security Conference, Vance criticised the cancellation of a recent election in Romania, the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is author of ‘Command’ and the Substack ‘Comment is Freed’ On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to establish a negotiating process to end the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Holding bitcoin is cool again. President Donald Trump has vowed to make America the “crypto capital of the planet”, words that have helped supercharge the token’s price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Wall Street banks and money managers are preparing to jump in. Investors hope Trump will turn the often-derided token into a mainstream financial asset

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to mass around the Gaza Strip and threatened to resume “intensive fighting” against Hamas if the Palestinian militant group failed to release Israeli hostages by midday on Saturday. Netanyahu’s ultimatum on Tuesday came after Hamas’s announcement that it was delaying “until further notice” the planned release of

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world China and the US risk renewing a full-blown trade war unless the two largest economies can defuse the dispute before Chinese tariffs on $14bn of American exports take effect on Monday, analysts warned.

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US consumers face the possibility of higher prices for popular goods such as tomatoes, avocados and tequila following Donald Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on imports from China, Mexico and Canada.  The potential

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Beijing has hit out at new 10 per cent tariffs imposed by the US on Chinese exports, saying it will “take necessary countermeasures to defend its rights and interests” as trade tensions between

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US will go ahead with plans to hit Canada, Mexico and China with new tariffs, the White House has said, heightening the risks of a trade war. Washington will hit Canada and

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Canada’s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland has said Ottawa should retaliate to any US tariffs by adding huge levies on Tesla vehicles to punish Elon Musk, one of Donald Trump’s “billionaire buddies”. Freeland,

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US President Donald Trump has pushed India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to buy more American-made weapons, as he called for the countries to rebalance their trade relationship in a call late on Monday.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Apple and Google’s mobile platforms, just days after the government forced out its chair as part of a push to cut the regulatory burden on business.

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump’s inaugural address eight years ago became known as the “American carnage” speech for his invocation of a dystopia of rusted-out factories, poverty and crime. His second struck, in parts, the sunnier