Iceland summons US ambassador over Trump’s Stars and Stripes map
Post showed US flag covering Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Iceland and other nations
Liberty Global seals €669mn towers sale ahead of Ziggo spin-off
VodafoneZiggo to sell assets to consortium led by DigitalBridge as it works to reduce debt
Former Swiss bank lobby chief convicted of bribery and money laundering
Pierre Mirabaud given two-year suspended jail sentence by Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court over payments to Kuwaiti official
The crisis for Merz and the CDU
‘Giving up is not an option for me,’ says German chancellor as AfD routs conservatives in eastern stronghold
BoE governor Andrew Bailey faces questions from MPs
Central bank chief to be quizzed on interest rates and damage to UK economy from Iran war
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UK announces import ban on goods linked to Israeli settlements in West Bank
Action planned against companies and individuals involved in settlement expansion, Miliband tells MPs
Russia launches missile strikes against Kyiv as pause in raids ends
Overnight attacks come after Ukraine visit by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner fails to deliver breakthrough
Is it time for Eurozone GDP ex-Ireland?
Once the Celtic Tiger, now the tail that wags the bloc
Ceuta demands EU help over migrant ‘pressure cooker’
Leader of Spanish exclave requests assistance to repatriate migrants after influx in July
Big Chicken: How chicken conquered the world
The race to produce ever-cheaper chicken is transforming global farming and trade — at a cost to animal welfare and human health
Anita Brookner — a beguiling portrait of a maddeningly inscrutable writer
Hermione Lee’s exhilarating biography pieces together the elusive life of a novelist who turned privacy into an art form and herself into a character
Simon Rattle displays his versatility at the Proms with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
The programme, including Isabelle Faust’s tireless performance of Schumann’s suppressed Violin Concerto, was a reminder of the conductor’s love for period instruments
The new fiscal threats to monetary policy
High public deficits and debt undermine central banks’ ability to control inflation
Wild Horse Nine — John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell spar in a blackly comic portrait of US decline
Writer-director Martin McDonagh’s facility for rancorous repartee is on full display in this snarlingly sardonic Venice Film Festival entry
The yawning gap between ambition and action on nuclear energy
The rate of new reactor construction would need to increase fivefold during the next decade if global 2050 targets are to be met
Inside a Sydney sanctuary built ‘upside down and back to front’
Le Corbusier colours, ‘honest’ materials and ‘tricks learnt from Norman Foster’ make for a lively, compact riposte to inner-city chaos
Innovation is the answer to Britain’s elusive growth problem
We need to support the next generation of start-ups to become internationally competitive
Novartis shares sink on latest trial setback
Swiss drugmaker’s neuromuscular medicine fails late-stage study in fresh blow
UK pays highest borrowing cost since 1998 at gilt sale
Thirty-year gilts priced at a yield of roughly 5.83%, underscoring pressure on public finances from global bond sell-off
Europe plays catch-up in space
SpaceX and Blue Origin pull out of this week’s Paris summit, heightening European vulnerability compared with the US and China
The counterfeit cigarettes made inside the EU
Criminal gangs have switched to home production after crackdowns on cross-border smugglers
7 things to know about Christopher Kane at Mulberry
The star designer spoke to HTSI ahead of a highly anticipated LFW show
FirstFT: Top credit rating sought for Anthropic and OpenAI
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