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At 9am on Saturday morning, a group of women spread across the busiest street in central Kyiv and stopped traffic to observe a minute of silence. A loudspeaker counted 60 ticks before blaring the opening lines of the national anthem — “Ukraine’s glory and freedom have not yet perished”. Drivers and passengers stepped out of

US President Donald Trump has claimed he is “in the middle” of Russia and Ukraine as he greeted Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House for talks on ending the conflict, adding that he was “for both Ukraine and Russia”. Trump said the Ukrainian president “will have to make compromises”, adding that Kyiv “will not go

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump said on Thursday he would impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on imports from China and press ahead with levies on Mexico and Canada from next week, raising the spectre

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “Freedom and independence are today in jeopardy the world over. If the forces of conquest are not successfully resisted and defeated there will be no freedom, no independence and no opportunity for freedom

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st US state. Peter

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A US resolution calling for a “swift end” to the war in Ukraine passed the UN Security Council with the backing of Moscow and Beijing in a vote that dealt the latest blow

Defence stocks rose across Europe after the centre-right Christian Democrats won Sunday’s German election as investors bet the outcome would lead to increased military spending.  Germany’s Rheinmetall rose 3.8 per cent, while London’s BAE Systems was up 2 per cent. Thales, the French aerospace and defence company, rose 1 per cent.  The moves in the defence sector also

Germany’s Friedrich Merz promised to “achieve independence” from the US after his centre-right bloc won federal elections, putting him at the head of a potentially complex coalition during a time of upheaval for Europe.  In an election where Germany shifted to the right, Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) came first with 28.6 per cent of 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 Treasury secretary has defended Donald Trump’s push for an agreement with Ukraine to develop its natural resources and critical minerals, saying the plan would fuel postwar growth in the country and

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US national security adviser Mike Waltz has said Ukraine will sign a critical minerals deal with Washington in “the very short term”, even as Kyiv says several key points must still be agreed.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s nationalist opposition has amplified its conflict with the pro-EU government led by Donald Tusk, with both sides accusing each other of attempting to skew the results of upcoming presidential elections. Senior politicians in the

Israel said Hamas had violated a ceasefire after forensics tests found the fourth body released on Thursday morning was not of an Israeli hostage but rather an “anonymous, unidentified body”. Hamas was supposed to have handed over the remains of four Israeli hostages, including two children, in a grim exchange that initially signalled progress for

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world You’d hope that after a few weeks watching Elon Musk’s hit squads rampage through the US federal bureaucracy, people might have twigged that his “efficiency” drive isn’t entirely as advertised. Yet rather than

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

Show video info Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia and signalled Kyiv should hold elections, in comments that prompted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accuse the US president of living in a “disinformation bubble”. In Riyadh on Tuesday, Russia and the US agreed to “lay the groundwork for future co-operation” on

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Senior US and Russian officials will meet in Riyadh on Tuesday for talks that the Kremlin has hailed as a step to restoring full bilateral relations and ending the Ukraine war but which

Western capitals are braced for a potentially decisive week for European security, as the US and Russia begin talks to end the war in Ukraine and European leaders hold an emergency meeting to respond to the fast-moving negotiations taking place without them. Europe’s most powerful leaders will gather in Paris on Monday for crisis talks

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US secretary of state Marco Rubio has spoken with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov ahead of high-level talks between Washington and Moscow next week, as relations thaw between the countries. Rubio, national security

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a US bid to take ownership of around 50 per cent of the rights to his country’s rare earth minerals and is trying to negotiate a better deal, according to several people familiar with the matter. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered Zelenskyy the deal during a visit to Kyiv

Show video info JD Vance has said Europe’s “threat from within” is graver than that posed by Russia and China in a confrontational speech that hit out at alleged infringements of democracy and provoked a furious response from the continent’s officials. In an address to the Munich Security Conference, the US vice-president criticised the cancellation

For President Trump, tariffs are a way of protecting American industries and safeguarding national security. For Tracy Skupien, they are a calamity that has pitched her company into crisis. Skupien is director of operations at Tompkins Products, a small family business in Detroit that takes imported cold drawn aluminium bar and turns it into transmission

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.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US President Donald Trump’s barrage of economic policies is a “real, genuine fundamental wake-up call” that is forcing Europe to address its competitiveness problem, according to the chief executive of the region’s biggest stock exchange

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK economy unexpectedly grew by 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter, in a modest boost for Labour as it seeks to fulfil its pledges to re-energise the economy. The GDP figure for the final

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world President Donald Trump has said Washington and Moscow will begin negotiations “immediately” on ending the war in Ukraine after speaking with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Wednesday’s call indicated a dramatic turnaround in the

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

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 chair of Rockefeller International. His latest book is ‘What Went Wrong With Capitalism’  The mystery of the moment is why rampant speculation persists in the all-American bull market despite the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Something about the great return to the office does not make sense. For the past few years, all kinds of large employers have been tightening their rules on working from home. They have decided it

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European companies are bracing for a financial hit from a potential trade war with the US, with some top executives warning that uncertainty over Donald Trump’s trade policy is already affecting investment plans. The US

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump announced Nippon Steel had abandoned its plan to buy US Steel but would “invest heavily” in the iconic Pittsburgh producer. At a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba