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  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Iran
    Iran promotes hardliners as presidential candidates

    Guardian Council disqualifies prominent moderates but gives green light to one reformist MP

    Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel rescues four hostages in Gaza but scores of Palestinians killed

    Health officials say medics were overwhelmed by fatalities after operation to free quartet captured on October 7

    Rescued hostage Noa Argamani embraces her father
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Energy sector
    Colombia halts coal exports to Israel in protest against war in Gaza

    Decision by country’s leftist president follows move by Turkey to suspend trade ties

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Saudi Aramco
    Saudi Aramco prices stock offer at low end of range in $11.2bn sale

    Oil company targets international investors as government raises funds

    General view of Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oil field in the Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Single cigarette costs $20 in Gaza as prices for basic goods spiral

    Closure of crossing with Egypt has worsened shortages and sent price of food and fuel sharply higher

    A man buys hand-rolled cigarettes from a street vendor in Rafah in April
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Dozens killed in Israeli strike on UN school in Gaza

    Israeli military officials say Hamas militants were using the facility that was sheltering displaced Palestinians

    Palestinians survey the scene after the Israeli strike on a UN-run school
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Ariel Emanuel
    Netanyahu is a disaster for Israel

    He has failed as a wartime leader and has no plan for securing the peace — his only goal is to stay in office and out of jail

    Close up of a pensive looking Benjamin Netanyahu in front of a flag of Israel
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Morocco start-up founders saw future on sub-Saharan travels

    Top 10-ranking Chari is part of fast-expanding ecommerce activity

    A man and a woman are posing together in front of a booth at a trade show. The man, standing on the left, is wearing a light-colored shirt and pants, while the woman, seated on the right, is dressed in a striped jacket over a striped shirt. Behind them is a banner for Chari Money, a fintech company, with details about the company and logos for the event
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel threatens ‘intense action’ against Lebanon-based Hizbollah

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to restore security in north after surge in cross-border attacks

    Smoke rises near Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel following a rocket attack from Lebanon
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Israeli hostage deaths spur fresh push to free Gaza captives

    Families insist Israel’s military campaign alone will not bring captives home alive

    The family of Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker hold a torch with his photo during a demonstration
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Biden accuses Netanyahu of prolonging Gaza conflict

    US president’s comments increase pressure on Israel’s prime minister to defy coalition critics and support peace plan

    Joe Biden
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Kim Ghattas
    Biden has put his credibility on the line with the Gaza plan

    Now Netanyahu will have to choose between rebuffing the US president or accepting a deal in Israel’s long-term interest

    US President Joe Biden listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    News in-depthUnited Arab Emirates
    UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals

    Gulf state’s AI minister says recent investment deal between Microsoft and G42 is part of strategy to reshape its economy

    AI minister Omar Sultan al Olama
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Standard Chartered PLC
    StanChart’s Iran transactions subject of fresh whistleblower claims

    Court filings seek to revive a US lawsuit with alleged evidence of payments helping Hizbollah and Taliban

    People outside a Standard Chartered office
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu’s coalition slides into infighting over ceasefire plan

    Israel’s far-right finance minister vows to oust prime minister if he accepts US-backed deal

    Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Iran
    Dozens of candidates register to stand in Iran’s presidential election

    Hopefuls from across the spectrum apply, but the Islamic republic is unlikely to take many risks

    Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Maldives
    Maldives to ban Israeli visitors over war in Gaza

    Government announces rally ‘in solidarity with Palestine’ following street protests in Muslim-majority archipelago

    A pro-Palestine rally in Male, the capital of the Maldives, in October 2023
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    US employment
    US students face recruitment challenges after Gaza protests

    Employers warn of tougher scrutiny following demonstrations over Israel-Hamas war

    Ryna Workman stands at an intersection with four zebra crossings and car lights reflecting off the wet road in New York
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu shrinks from ceasefire plan as far-right ministers revolt

    Despite White House pleas, Israel’s premier made clear his objections to any deal permanently halting fighting in Gaza

  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Ministers threaten to bring down Israeli government over ‘reckless’ Gaza ceasefire plan

    Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition partners attack US-brokered proposal as ‘total surrender’ to Hamas

  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Biden announces new Israel-Hamas peace proposals

    Three-phase plan includes six-week ceasefire and release of hostages in latest effort to end conflict

    US President Joe Biden speaks to media
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Houthi movement
    Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim 16 killed in US-UK strikes

    Western allies step up strikes aimed at deterring Iranian-backed militants from attacks on shipping

    A Yemeni man brandishes a rifle during a march in the Sana’a
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Sunshine Living Special
    Inside the homes of Tangier’s tastemakers

    Creatives from Europe and the US who live and work in the Moroccan city are inspired by its multicultural eclecticism

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI

    Aramco’s Prosperity7 takes part in investment round for start-up Zhipu AI

    Zhipu AI logo and screen shot from site
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Saudi Aramco
    Saudi Arabia to sell $12bn worth of Saudi Aramco shares

    Offering in world’s largest oil exporter to be set in range of SR26.7-SR29 as kingdom seeks fresh capital

    Spheroids and pipelines at an oil processing plant
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