On Sunday morning, as gaunt detainees flooded out of Syrian regime prisons and jubilant Damascenes streamed into the presidential palace to root around among abandoned designer shopping bags, Bashar al-Assad was nowhere to be found. The only sign of the […]
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syrian rebels say they are closing in on the strategic city of Homs as they push ahead with a lightning
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Middle East-based food delivery company Talabat has raised $2bn in the Gulf’s biggest initial public offering this year, as the
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syrian Islamist rebels have launched their biggest offensive in years against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, capturing at least 15 villages
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US investment bank Jefferies was happy to help out Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s business empire after it was hit with damaging fraud allegations last year, brokering a $1.9bn capital boost for the infrastructure group and cheering it on social media.
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An arm of Abu Dhabi’s state investment fund is buying Canadian asset manager CI Financial in one of the largest
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli officials say a deal to end the fighting with Hizbollah could be finalised “within days”, as US diplomats work
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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
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An Israeli air strike on central Beirut killed Hizbollah’s media relations chief on Sunday, as Israel’s military pummelled the capital’s
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lebanon is studying a US-drafted ceasefire proposal which aims to halt the war between Israel and militant group Hizbollah, the
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