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Russia’s armed forces have recruited hundreds of Yemeni men to fight in Ukraine, brought by a shadowy trafficking operation that highlights the growing links between Moscow and the Houthi rebel group. Yemeni recruits who travelled to Russia told the Financial Times they were promised high salaried employment and even Russian citizenship. When they arrived with

Joe Biden is staging a final push to deliver more aid to Ukraine, lock in manufacturing subsidies and confirm federal judges as he tries to secure his legacy before Donald Trump starts his second term in January. Following vice-president Kamala Harris’s defeat to Trump this month, and the failure of his own re-election bid in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military and Hizbollah are locked in fierce fighting around a strategically positioned 12th century crusader castle in one of Israel’s northernmost advances into Lebanon since launching its ground invasion in September. Hizbollah militants

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has picked Scott Bessent to be his US Treasury secretary, nominating one of his biggest financial backers as the top economic official of his second administration, according to five people familiar

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ever since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has tried to deter the west from supplying Kyiv with ever more potent weaponry by threatening retaliation and escalation of the war. On each

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world It is a millennia-old cliché of soldiering that you spend the majority of your time waiting around, interrupted by brief spasms of action. The same can be true of diplomacy. For a year

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, following days of escalation in the conflict. Ukrainian air defence forces said the missile, which

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a megarocket on Tuesday with Donald Trump in attendance but called off a plan for it to be caught by “chopstick arms”. The president-elect had travelled to Brownsville, Texas, to witness the sixth test of Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, that will be crucial to Musk and

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation accelerated sharply to 2.3 per cent in October, as higher energy costs pushed price growth above the Bank of England’s target. The annual consumer price index figure from the Office for National Statistics

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine has struck a military target inside Russia using US-made long-range Atacms missiles for the first time since Joe Biden’s administration lifted restrictions on their use, according to people familiar with the matter. Army

Donald Trump’s social media company is in advanced talks to buy Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading venue owned by Intercontinental Exchange, as it pushes to expand beyond online conversation. The US president-elect’s Trump Media and Technology Group, in which he has pledged to retain his 53 per cent stake, is closing in on an all-share purchase

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s biggest technology groups are building artificial intelligence teams in Silicon Valley, seeking to hire top US talent despite Washington’s efforts to curb the country’s development of the cutting-edge technology. Alibaba, ByteDance and Meituan have

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia on Sunday launched dozens of missiles and drones in what Ukraine’s foreign minister said was one of the largest air attacks of the war, targeting power facilities across the country and sending Kyiv

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US President Joe Biden has authorised Ukraine to launch limited strikes into Russia using US-supplied long-range missiles, in a big policy shift before the end of his White House term in January, two

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gold prices have been hit with their worst weekly drop in more than three years as Donald Trump’s US election victory and a strong dollar send bullion’s historic rally into reverse. After jumping more than

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in nearly two years, as western powers position for the return of a Trump administration that has made ending

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nissan plans to warn ministers that the UK car industry has reached a “crisis point”, with jobs and competitiveness at risk unless the government relaxes electric vehicle rules, according to two people with direct knowledge

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he quickly gutted the social media platform to its core operations, dispensing with anything he saw as wasteful or superfluous. Now, Donald Trump wants him to do the same to the US government. The world’s richest man was named this week alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, a former rival of Trump’s for

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world In April 2022, Elon Musk tweeted a cartoon made by US evolutionary biologist Colin Wright. The image shows a stick figure representing Wright, a self-described “centre-left liberal”, becoming politically stranded as the American

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence may represent the biggest opportunity in tech since the arrival of the internet, but it also poses fundamental questions over how some of the industry’s most powerful companies make money. Apple, which began