Business at hotels, car rentals and shops — even a nail bar — in aid-dependent areas of Kenya has fallen in the weeks since Donald Trump suspended funding to USAID, revealing the extent to which American assistance trickles into 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. UK home secretary Yvette Cooper has defended her government’s attempts to bolster economic ties with China, in spite of new
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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. Jonathan Powell, Sir Tony Blair’s former chief of staff and an architect of the Northern Ireland peace process, is to
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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 UK Treasury is preparing to slash spending on overseas aid in the Budget after refusing to match Tory-era top
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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 UK’s counterterrorism police are investigating the origins of a package that caught fire at a DHL depot in Birmingham
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Standing alongside Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni, Sir Keir Starmer praised the “remarkable progress” made by her government in tackling irregular migration. “Italy has shown that we can,” the UK premier said on Monday, after arrivals to Italy fell by
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Government incompetence and corporate greed were factors that led to the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died, according to the final report of the public inquiry into the 2017 disaster in west London. The report details a
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