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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1h
The US has withdrawn B-1 bombers deployed to RAF Fairford after UK and American officials have claimed Iran was involved in an incident last week in which five British men were arrested. ft.trib.al/SKsLBof
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2h
The son of the jailed former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro will go into a run-off vote on October 25 against incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who is standing for a fourth non-consecutive term. ft.trib.al/GrWZ65D
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8h
Opinion: America is not so exceptional any more — and the New World is becoming more like the Old. ft.trib.al/f2yI4dh
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9h
Unflattering portraits await all three tech titans — but while filmmakers vilify AI, studios are investing in it hungrily, says FT film critic Danny Leigh: ft.trib.al/gE54MVh
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10h
A spiralling legal crisis threatens to engulf OpenAI after its AI agents hacked dozens of companies and governments worldwide, with the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership. ft.trib.al/Tmi8iMR
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12h
'Harsh truths from the north won’t burst a Londoner’s bubble. You can’t out-hate a hater,' writes Bryce Elder. Tap here to read a Londoner’s guide to hating London: ft.trib.al/9aitEPH
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12h
Tens of thousands of Italian drivers have purchased Polish number plates for their cars and motorbikes in an elaborate scheme to evade road taxes and pay lower insurance premiums. ft.trib.al/pQ3FE3M
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15h
Opinion: London is tiring, so we complain about being tired, and about being tired of being tired. ft.trib.al/MaINQoV
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17h
With surrogacy illegal in China, an industry of agencies, consultants and fertility clinics has emerged to connect clients with women overseas willing to carry their children. ft.trib.al/R9ulxiR
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19h
In a private group chat, an elite crew of prediction-market bettors turn elections, wars and disasters into ‘free money on the floor’: ft.trib.al/qWVhqpK
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
'There are doubtless multiple forms of passive aggression where you don’t quite tell people to remove their footwear but behave sufficiently boorishly to make clear to all but the most inattentive visitor that this is a shoeless household' ft.trib.al/Wt5QqNU
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
There are many different ways to measure how well a country is doing.  Read ‘Dear England’ playwright James Graham's column on writing a drama about the economist who saw that wellbeing could not be captured by an index: ft.trib.al/ecrhwAa
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Which power will ultimately prevail? As in the 19th-century struggle between the UK and Russia, the answer may depend on forces beyond either’s control, says Rana Foroohar: ft.trib.al/ffLIz1Z
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
The Conservative leader on wading into culture wars, why the Tories have been too ‘complacent’ about business — and ruling out a rightwing coalition with Reform: ft.trib.al/OBKRhcE
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
The US Department of Justice will not reopen its criminal probe of Jay Powell over the Federal Reserve’s $2.5bn renovation project, after an investigation by the central bank’s watchdog cleared the former chair of criminal wrongdoing. ft.trib.al/X3hfP3B
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Breaking news: G7 countries have agreed to release 100mn barrels of diesel and crude oil from their strategic reserves. The decision comes as Donald Trump attempts to bring down high diesel prices for US drivers ahead of November’s midterm elections. ft.trib.al/baXN7E9
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Italy and Greece have asked Brussels for more fiscal wriggle room as surging fuel prices and rising inflation add to budgetary pressure on the bloc’s two most indebted countries ahead of elections next year. ft.trib.al/Wh9PgVB
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Around 1,949 people were arrested on Thursday as students, angered by overcrowded facilities, crumbling infrastructure and under-investment in education, protested outside more than 1,000 schools and blockaded 222 of them. ft.trib.al/GGEDPUP
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Khaldoon al-Mubarak, one of Abu Dhabi’s most powerful non-royals, must battle to defend both the club and his own reputation in the face of a football finance scandal. ft.trib.al/McICl0v
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
The US Treasury has designated A7 a transnational criminal organisation, saying it would freeze its assets in the country and prohibit Americans from doing business with oligarch Ilan Shor’s payments company or any subagents acting on its behalf. ft.trib.al/L0KqNtj
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three accompanying destroyers left their port in San Diego earlier this week and are expected to arrive in the Middle East by the end of November. ft.trib.al/2gjHODQ
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Europe is preparing for 'severe' Russian hybrid attacks, said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as Vladimir Putin threatened that his conflict with the west could reach a 'fatal point of no return'. ft.trib.al/FIHsqd9
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Opinion from Lex: Even if the US president backs down, his threat should prompt Europe to be more energy independent. ft.trib.al/6ipYK1e
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
The French government on Thursday put forward a 2027 budget with €43bn in cuts and tax rises. ft.trib.al/Sm5tF74
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
A British-Iranian man has been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts following Sunday’s incident at RAF Fairford. ft.trib.al/T3DA6Ag
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Opinion: Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire. ft.trib.al/oaqobOj
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Accenture has painted a rosier picture of the IT consulting market than investors had feared, as it pours money into training its staff to use AI and helps clients adopt the technology ft.trib.al/Qqsfow2
An Accenture logo displayed on the exterior of a building with vertical wooden slats and windows above.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
A shipping executive is suing Coutts over claims the UK private bank kept a dossier of inaccurate information about him that triggered a US investigation into his finances and led to his daughter being detained ft.trib.al/Ood7sJx
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
The shortlisted books are 'charismatic' reads, said chair of judges Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and arts journalist: ft.trib.al/4oB7nE0
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Simpson’s Tavern served City diners for more than two and a half centuries. After months of delays, difficult discoveries and a £1.3mn renovation, the opening of Cloth Cornhill has brought the historic site back to life: ft.trib.al/H6EPktI
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Global bonds kicked off October under pressure as a brutal sell-off in US Treasuries drove yields to their highest since 2002 and pushed borrowing costs around the world back to multiyear highs ft.trib.al/9ouzpPH
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
FT exclusive: OpenAI’s models took data from 55 websites belonging to businesses, non-profits and government agencies including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the International Energy Agency ft.trib.al/tjGT9QJ
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Global government bond markets came under renewed pressure as yields in Japan and Australia approached multi-decade highs following a sell-off that pushed US Treasuries to their worst month in four years. ft.trib.al/firxvUQ
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Captain Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed while fighting off his co-pilot during a mid-air brawl on a Flydubai flight, was hailed as a hero by the leaders of India and Israel, who said his actions averted a disaster. ft.trib.al/fBgKwMS
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
FT exclusive: The Premier League football club’s Emirati chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, was granted immunity six years ago in a move that could complicate any legal action resulting from findings that it artificially inflated its finances by more than £900mn. ft.trib.al/o3eobE1
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, this was our most-read story: ft.trib.al/vMpW1ZG
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
After an investigation into the renovation of the Federal Reserve building found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, the president wrote on his Truth Social platform: 'This is Jerome Powell’s fault.' ft.trib.al/qoImwZI
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
FT Exclusive: The UK prime minister will launch his plan to recast Britain’s relations with the EU after both parties put aside a dispute about Brussels’ 'Made in Europe' initiative. ft.trib.al/dl6UZiz
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
The prime minister says the UK is working closely with the US administration following the release of five suspects on bail. ft.trib.al/U1EaIeg
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
One pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv stabbed the other and attempted to crash the aircraft in a brawl that sent the jet plunging 20,000 feet. ft.trib.al/bztH6CS
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
The China General Technology Research Institute has ‘very strong ties’ to Chinese intelligence, the UK agency said in an unusual espionage alert. ft.trib.al/Tjzwgni
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
Moscow accused the defence alliance of taking a 'dangerous and reckless course' towards Russia and its exclave in a document sent to Nato. ft.trib.al/9Qp4P5q
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
Breaking news: The Federal Reserve’s watchdog reproached the Fed board for failing to take ‘numerous actions available to it that could have better controlled costs’ in the $2.5bn refurbishment of the central bank’s headquarters. ft.trib.al/dUgQAvm
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
The Israeli prime minister responded to what he called a 'very serious security incident', which involved a brawl between the pilots of a flight carrying more than 150 passengers. ft.trib.al/3WWDQV2
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
FT Exclusive: The Citadel founder's contribution is the largest single gift to a US university. The donation comes as Griffin seeks to transform his new home of Miami into a business and cultural hub that could compete with New York or London. ft.trib.al/ZbImscW
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after the pilots were injured in an apparent cockpit brawl and the aircraft plunged almost 20,000ft in a matter of minutes ft.trib.al/bYQRXCk
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
The company that until recently marketed itself as 'the world’s local bank' is now firmly staking its future on Chinese wealth flowing out of the country, rather than western capital flowing in ft.trib.al/qAR2NVn
A large lion statue is positioned outside the glass entrance of an HSBC office building, with two people in business attire nearby.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this opinion piece was the most-read story ft.trib.al/CjzEF7D
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham has said he will look at the option of Britain going 'all the way' and rejoining the EU as part of a major review of European policy, after declaring in his Labour conference speech that Brexit has 'done more harm than good' ft.trib.al/Obw4GIA
Andy Burnham stands on stage gesturing during his speech at the Labour Party conference, with 'HOPE AGAIN' displayed behind him.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/09/2026
The UK prime minister’s planned ‘high quality national care service’ will still leave elderly people in England having to sell their homes to pay for care unless he embraces a far more expensive model that is likely to require tax rises, experts have said. ft.trib.al/9ac3tQy
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