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A year of Keir

Labour's cheers, tears, and welfare fears

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Lionesses defend Euros title with fortunes of women’s game in England on their shoulders

The 2022 tournament made winning players into stars and boosted match-day crowds

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Steve Bannon: β€˜Trump is going to be in your head for a long time’

The former White House chief strategist on why he believes the Iran strikes were a win, his time in jail β€” and what Zohran Mamdani means for the Democrats

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Trump to step up tariff pressure with letters to trade partners on new rates

US president appears to be losing patience, with only two deals agreed ahead of July 9 deadline

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Collapsed owner of Lindsey oil refinery owes up to Β£250mn in taxes

Prax Group faced liquidity issues for several years leading up to its unravelling

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

A year after its landslide win, Britain’s Labour Party is navigating a tougher-than-expected path

The last 12 months have been nothing short of tumultuous for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

β€˜Alligator Alcatraz’ policymaking leaves the field clear for China

The contrast between technocracy in Beijing and the pantomime in Washington is impossible to ignore

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

FirstFT: Trumps get his Independence Day present

Also in today’s newsletter, Russia launches biggest barrage yet on Ukraine and banks charged in Singapore money-laundering case

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566 million over Nifty 50 manipulation claims

The U.S. trading firm's entities are "further prohibited from buying, selling or otherwise dealing in securities, directly or indirectly."

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

UBS and Citi among nine banks fined $21.5mn in Singapore money-laundering case

Scandal involving island-wide seizures of gold bars and luxury cars rocked city-state’s wealth management sector

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Turmoil, tariffs, tourism: Thailand's political woes threatens fragile recovery

The political instability could affect Thailand's efforts to revive its economy, which is currently facing weak tourism numbers and looming tariffs.

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

Investing in Space: One big beautiful windfall

U.S. President Donald Trump's tax and spending megabill narrowly cleared the House of Representatives on Thursday, after days of political tumult.

Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

Trump and Zelenskyy to discuss pause to US weapons deliveries in call

Ukrainian president also expected to raise subject of future arms sales during planned talks on Friday

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Trump’s β€˜big, beautiful bill’ provides windfall for US immigration crackdown

ICE set to receive more funds than the FBI, bureau of prisons and others combined, according to non-profit

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Russia becomes first country to recognise Afghanistan’s Taliban government

Moscow aims to co-operate in fields such as energy, transport, agriculture and infrastructure with Islamist regime in Kabul

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Musk's xAI scores permit for gas-burning turbines to power Grok supercomputer in Memphis

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup attained an official permitto power its Memphis supercomputer facility using natural gas-burning turbines.

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

FirstFT: Trump’s β€˜big, beautiful bill’ passes the House of Representatives

Also in today’s newsletter, China hits out at US-Vietnam trade deal, and Pakistan’s push to deepen ties with the White House

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

35-year-old American moved to Chengdu and lives on $30,000 a year: '[It's] poverty in America, but in China I'm living large'

Aleese Lightyear lived New York City for 10 years before moving to Beijing, China in 2019.

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

House of Representatives approves β€˜big, beautiful bill’ in victory for Trump

218-to-214 vote marks final approval of package of tax and spending cuts

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Trump megabill gives the oil industry everything it wants and ends key support for solar and wind

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to rely on oil, gas, coal and nuclear to meet its energy needs.

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

US tariff receipts surge in Trump’s trade war

Figures show record $24.2bn raised from the levies in May but highlight potential for distortion to global trade flows

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Mediators move closer to securing Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza

Progress on deal, which calls for β€˜serious’ talks to permanently end the war, comes as Trump prepares to meet Netanyahu

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Brazil’s Lula visits former Argentina leader Kirchner under house arrest

Leftists’ meeting underscores BrasΓ­lia’s strained ties with neighbour’s libertarian president Javier Milei

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Labour’s squandered promise of stability

The prime minister has failed to provide political cover for his chancellor

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Trump speaks with Putin after U.S. pauses some weapons shipments to Ukraine

The Trump-Putin call comes after the U.S. said it would halt some weapons shipments to Ukraine, which continues to fight off invading Russian forces.

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

Democrats stage show of resistance as Donald Trump’s tax bill moves ahead

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries sets record with speech of 8 hours and 44 minutes

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Investor fright over Reeves’ tears shows fragility of UK finances

Market fears that replacing chancellor would imperil fiscal rules

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO ofΒ Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross

Ilya Sutskever will assume the CEO role atSafe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI.

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

US economy surpasses expectations to add 147,000 jobs in June

Figure leads investors to scale back bets on interest rate cuts and helps push Wall Street stocks to record high

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China in sign of trade truce

The U.S. government has rescinded its export restrictions on chip design software to China, U.S.-based Synopsys announced.

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

Shein hit with €40mn fine in France over misleading discounts

Regulators found the fast-fashion retailer, which is facing multiple probes, also made unjustifiable environmental claims

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Signs of a pick-up in venture capital exits are finally emerging

Figma listing plans might raise hopes of a rise in IPO activity

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Germany seeks deal with Taliban to deport Afghan migrants

Interior minister says direct communication with Islamist group needed to enable repatriation

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

The BBC dropped β€˜Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ but its images will stay with you

Now on Channel 4, the film investigates the detention and killing of Palestinian medics β€” and illustrates why the corporation needs to find a way to tell such stories

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

CoreWeave is the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia's latest AI chips

AI developers still clamor for the latest Nvidia chips, which have improvements that make them better for training and deploying models.

Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International