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              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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                Biden blocks Nippon Steel’s $15bn takeover of US Steel

                Companies threaten legal action in response to outgoing president’s decision

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              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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                2025 will test the ageing warhorses of the Middle East

                There are few grounds for optimism over the Palestinian question but the west can help Syria get back on its feet

                A Syrian citizen stands on the fallen statue of the late President Hafez Al-Assad in Damascus, Syria
              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
                Donald Trump
                Trump attacks UK’s North Sea policy as ‘very big mistake’

                Post on Truth Social platform is latest anti-Labour salvo from incoming US administration

                Donald Trump speaking at a campaign town hall in Philadelphia in October 14 2024, in front of a screen with the slogan ‘Drill baby drill’
              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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                Antony Blinken: ‘China has been trying to have it both ways’

                The outgoing US secretary of state on putting pressure on Beijing over Ukraine, the ‘road map’ for Syria — and why America must co-operate in order to lead

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              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
                Will Freeman
                A new Monroe doctrine is unlikely to work for the US in South America

                Washington’s leverage over countries in the region is waning as China’s influence grows

                Donald Trump talks to Argentine President Javier Milei at Mar-a-Lago last year
              • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
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                America’s gathering legal storm

                Donald Trump promises the mother of all stress tests for the US rule of law

                President-elect Donald Trump
              • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
                Chinese business & finance
                US investors in China venture funds race to comply with new tech rules

                Financial institutions rush to secure assurances their money is not being used to develop Chinese technology

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              • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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                US to send Ukraine $6bn in fresh military and budget assistance

                Biden administration races to provide Kyiv with additional support before Donald Trump takes office

                A high mobility artillery rocket system in action during a training exercise in Washington state
              • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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                It’s time for Europe’s magical thinking on defence to end

                Europeans need to acknowledge that they can no longer rely on the US security guarantee

                A soldier in camouflage fatigues and facepaint stands to attention
              • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
                What does Trump’s foreign policy chief Marco Rubio stand for?

                A world of turmoil awaits the Floridan if the US Senate confirms him as the next secretary of state

                Donald Trump greets Senator Marco Rubio
              • Friday, 27 December, 2024
                The Big Read
                How America First will transform the world in 2025

                In different ways, the US, Russia and China have all become revisionist powers that are seeking radical change to the status quo

                US President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017.
              • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
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              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
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                Could Trump heal Canada’s ailing economy?

                Economists say a jolt from the south could shock the country out of its torpor

                A montage of Donald Trump, a Canadian maple leaf and lines from a chart
              • Monday, 23 December, 2024
                Global trade
                Trump and Panama trade blows over control of canal

                President-elect says he would demand vital waterway be ‘returned’ to US if it is not operated to his liking

                Aerial view of a cargo ship traversing the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal
              • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
                Syrian crisis
                US to remove $10mn bounty for Syria’s Islamist rebel leader

                Measure comes after American officials meet Abu Mohammed al-Jolani in Damascus

              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                The Big Read
                Ukraine’s waiting game for Trump

                Kyiv and its European allies believe they have a chance to shape the incoming president’s plan to end the war. But they are divided over what to propose

                People walk between buildings badly damaged by a Russian missile strike i Kyiv
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                Trump wants 5% Nato defence spending target, Europe told

                US president-elect’s closest foreign policy aides indicate he will continue arming Ukraine while pursuing end to war

                Donald Trump meets Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
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                Mitch McConnell has broken cover. Will others soon follow?

                Then-President Donald Trump listened to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speak about legislation for  coronavirus aid in July 2020
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                Syrian crisis
                US diplomats meet Syrian rebel leader in Damascus

                Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who remains under western sanctions, holds talks with the state department’s top Middle East official

                Abu Mohammad al-Jolani
              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Security guarantees without US not ‘sufficient’ for Ukraine, says Zelenskyy

                Ukrainian president continues to push for Nato membership after meeting European leaders in Brussels

                Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking at the EU summit in Brussels
              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                UK foreign policy
                Starmer’s aides held Trump team talks on US trip

                Morgan McSweeney and Jonathan Powell met incoming chief of staff and security adviser

                Montage of Jonathan Powell, left, and Morgan McSweeny
              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                The Big Read
                FT Person of the Year: Donald Trump

                After the most dramatic comeback in modern US history, the president-elect promises a new era of sweeping deregulation and a profound shift to the cultural right

              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                Reform party UK
                Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to donating to Reform UK, says Farage

                Party leader meets tech billionaire at Mar-a-Lago as he seeks to boost ties with incoming US administration

                Reform treasurer Nick Candy, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Monday
              • Monday, 16 December, 2024
                Syrian crisis
                Trump says Turkey was behind Islamist groups that toppled Assad

                US president-elect claims Ankara has launched an ‘unfriendly takeover’ of its neighbour

                Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan standing at podiums, with Trump touching Erdoğan ‘s hand
              • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
                Trump names ally Richard Grenell as envoy for special missions

                Former intelligence adviser and ambassador to Germany will negotiate with Venezuela and North Korea

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