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FT Exclusive: The head of the French central bank said the Eurozone’s second-largest economy could win back investor confidence despite the 'serious and worrying' moves on sovereign debt markets in recent days. ft.trib.al/mGdOi4N

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Giorgia Meloni has applied to the EU's intellectual property office to trademark her voice. While entertainers such as Taylor Swift have applied to trademark their voices, Italy's prime minister is the first major politician known to have sought to do so. ft.trib.al/DPhWp5i

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If you’re weighing up a more entrepreneurial path, thinking about the financial side of your freelance life is vital: ft.trib.al/tz5V1S8

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'White is really warm and cosy.' Chrissie Rucker has reimagined a historical London house in her favourite shade: ft.trib.al/9gUGE9i

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Michael Williamson, chief executive of Wrexham AFC, was appointed by Hollywood stars ‘Rob and Ryan’ to rescue one of the world’s oldest professional football clubs. Read his interview with the FT here: ft.trib.al/BERnECz

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The Baltic state is preparing to carry out deep strikes inside its neighbour, as officials fear an opportunistic gamble by the Kremlin and say that neither they nor Nato are deterring such a scenario at present. ft.trib.al/MDBTbBr

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The US has withdrawn B-1 bombers deployed to RAF Fairford after UK and American officials have claimed Iran was involved in an incident last week in which five British men were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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Opinion: Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire. ft.trib.al/oaqobOj

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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

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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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