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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has embraced Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the steps of Downing Street as he launched an attempt to bolster the Ukrainian president after his explosive encounter with Donald Trump. Starmer spoke to Trump and Zelenskyy by phone after Friday’s bust-up in the Oval Office and urged them to resume talks, including

European leaders rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his spectacular Oval Office bust-up with Donald Trump, but the rift between Kyiv and Washington leaves Europe with agonising choices about how to prop up Ukraine. Friday’s confrontation, where the US president accused the Ukrainian leader of “gambling” with a third world war, caused consternation in European capitals

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 before the television cameras on Friday, the two leaders clashed even before the

Donald Trump said he is working on a trade deal with the UK and suggested that Britain could escape tariffs if the countries secure one, but the allies failed to agree on US security guarantees for Ukraine. During a warm joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, the US president said his UK

US President Donald Trump has indicated he is ready to accept a UK proposal for an agreement over the Chagos Islands, saying it appeared to be “a good deal”. Trump’s comments came as he greeted his British counterpart Sir Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday, ahead of bilateral talks between the two leaders

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Despite the air of gloom hanging over China’s property market, work is well under way at a construction site in the north-west of Beijing. Yellow and green cranes nestle among the scaffolding, while lines of crushed limestone trail across the upturned earth. Backed by private developer Longfor, projects like this have helped power the world’s

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Sir Keir Starmer has praised US President Donald Trump for changing the “global conversation” on the war in Ukraine for the better, as the British prime minister prepares for talks in the White

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.” Those were the words of President Woodrow Wilson in April 1917 on the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world What is the endgame of Donald Trump’s foreign policy? That question has not been asked enough since US vice-president JD Vance’s shocker of a speech in Munich. It is clear that Trump and

Business at hotels, car rentals and shops — even a nail bar — in aid-dependent areas of Kenya has fallen in the weeks since Donald Trump suspended funding to USAID, revealing the extent to which American assistance trickles into the economies of recipient countries. The fallout from the US president’s 90-day funding suspension has underscored

Flying back from Florida on Wednesday night on Air Force One, Donald Trump was asked if he trusted Russia to negotiate in good faith when it came to settling the war in Ukraine. “I do. I think the Russians want to see the war end, I really do,” the US president said during a 14-minute

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump fired General CQ Brown as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, ousting the respected Air Force leader as the president seeks to remove military officers who have

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US government has indicated it will drop a long-running case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which it had alleged that the company’s hiring procedures unlawfully discriminated against asylum seekers and refugees. The

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, threatening to derail a traditional show of unity, according to five

Donald Trump has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and warned that he “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left”, in a deepening rift between Washington and Kyiv. The US president hit out at his Ukrainian counterpart in a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, hours

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation rose more than expected to a 10-month high of 3 per cent in January, highlighting the challenge for the Bank of England as it contends with persistent price pressures and a weakened economy.

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK tax authority has reversed a crackdown that private equity and professional services firms had feared would result in hundreds of millions of pounds of retrospective tax liabilities. HMRC made unexpected changes last year

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Banks’ hopes of being shielded from a multibillion-pound mis-selling scandal suffered a blow on Monday after judges prevented the UK government from supporting the industry in a looming court case. The Treasury had taken the