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  • Thursday, 18 June, 2026
    Indian politics & policy
    Modi and Netanyahu: the making of an unlikely alliance

    As Israel’s isolation deepens, ties with New Delhi are growing — from drones to statues

    3 hours ago
    Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu sit facing each other in conversation, with Indian and Israeli flags behind them
  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2026
    Americas politics & policy
    What lies behind the new boom in Colombian cocaine

    Leftwing rebels have been replaced by gangsters selling ever more drugs to Europe and Asia

    Four armed individuals in camouflage uniforms, with ‘Frente Carlos Patiño FARC-EP’ written on their shirts, walk through dense coca plants
  • Tuesday, 16 June, 2026
    Insurance
    The world is more dangerous. Why is risk cheaper?

    Capital is pouring into insurance because of high returns and low volatility. But some professionals are worried about mispricing

    View looking down the interior of the Lloyd’s Building in London
  • Monday, 15 June, 2026
    Space industry
    ‘It burns Jeff up’: Blue Origin’s rivalry with SpaceX

    Bezos’s rocket company had looked ready to start closing the gap. Then came May 28

    People watch from the beach as Blue Origin’s New Glenn-3 rocket launches in the distance, with a bright flame visible at the launch pad.
  • Saturday, 13 June, 2026
    Equities
    AI is revolutionising the stock market

    Big Tech no longer prints money; it needs it. What will that mean when confidence dips?

  • Friday, 12 June, 2026
    Technology sector
    The quantum computing revolution is closer than you think

    Companies are betting on big implications for pharmaceuticals, financial services and crypto. But sceptics worry about hype

    Oxford Quantum Circuits’ quantum computer at the OQC data centre in New York
  • Thursday, 11 June, 2026
    Russian politics
    ‘We’re back in the Stone Age’: Russia’s spies turn off the internet

    Shutdowns have made one of the world’s most online nations resort to cash, paper maps and pet cams

    A woman holding a child looks at her phone in front of a large red and silver star decoration with radiating metallic stars
  • Wednesday, 10 June, 2026
    Rail
    Germany’s €100bn bid to make the trains run on time

    The country’s railway renewal is the first test of whether Europe’s largest economy can reverse years of decline

  • Tuesday, 9 June, 2026
    US foreign policy
    Will Trump abandon Taiwan?

    The threat from China is rising — and the US president is keeping one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints in suspense

    Montage of Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump and Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te
  • Monday, 8 June, 2026
    Sport
    America is remaking football in its image

    A flood of dollars has made the US one of the biggest forces in the sport

  • Saturday, 6 June, 2026
    Terrorism
    The teenagers enlisted as agents of mayhem by Russia and Iran

    Minors are being targeted to carry out hostile acts from Ukraine to western Europe and Israel

    Montage of images including a pile of crypto coins, the charred remains of ambulances belonging to a Jewish organisation, and a screenshot from ‘World of Tanks’ video game
  • Saturday, 6 June, 2026
    European companies
    Time’s up for Swatch?

    Beyond the fistfights for plastic watches, falling profits are increasing pressure for change

    Montage of a man resembling Nick Hayek looking through a pair of pocket watches, with two wristwatches in the background
  • Thursday, 4 June, 2026
    Global Economy
    Trump’s empire of debt

    This century the US has embarked on wars of choice and borrowed more to pay for them. That might not end well

    Montage of images, close-up of Donald Trump’s face against a background of torn up $100 bills
  • Wednesday, 3 June, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    ‘Close to the Terminator narrative’: the dawn of self-improving AI

    Industry chiefs say a looming tech breakthrough might deliver superintelligence. Safety experts say we’re not ready

    Close-up of a semiconductor chip
  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2026
    European banks
    How Deutsche Bank learned to stop chasing America

    After decades of upheaval, the lender that wanted to take on Wall Street has scaled back its ambitions to focus on Europe

    Montage of Christian Sewing, a map of Europe, a building and financial statement document
  • Saturday, 30 May, 2026
    US midterm elections 2026
    Trump, Texas and the risk of a Pyrrhic victory

    By favouring a divisive candidate, the president may have put the Senate in play

    A cheering crowd holds posters reading ‘Take back Texas’, ‘The people vs Ken Paxton’ and ‘Talarico for Texas’ at a Democratic rally
  • Thursday, 28 May, 2026
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine is turning the tables

    The country’s war effort was at a nadir. But mass drone production has come to the rescue

    Drone operators prepare to launch a fixed-wing drone at night by torchlight
  • Wednesday, 27 May, 2026
    Professional services
    How AI threatens the giants of consulting

    The technology opens the door for smaller, well-funded challengers to take market share from the Big Four and others

    Montage of the City of London skyline against a background of green and copper lines of a circuit board
  • Tuesday, 26 May, 2026
    Apple Inc
    Apple has an innovation gap. Will its new CEO fill it?

    As John Ternus prepares to take charge, the tech titan that once urged consumers to ‘think different’ may itself be ripe for disruption

    Montage of images: John Ternus, an iPhone with an image of Steve Jobs on the screen and an Apple Watch with a picture of Tim Cook on the screen
  • Monday, 25 May, 2026
    European economy
    How Europe learnt to love subsidies

    EU state aid has increased. Will that fend off China or fragment the single market?

    Thick clouds of water vapor and exhaust rise from multiple smokestacks at the Salzgitter AG steel mill
  • Saturday, 23 May, 2026
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    The AI revolution has turbocharged M&A

    Deals hit record highs, unloved companies turn sexy and PE finds a new gold mine

    Montage image of shaking hands and data centre infrastructure
  • Friday, 22 May, 2026
    Electric vehicles
    The European cars made in China

    Western automakers are taking advantage of Chinese overcapacity to export lower-cost vehicles to their home markets

    Chinese employees work on an auto assembly line
  • Thursday, 21 May, 2026
    Financial services
    How Chris Hohn built the world’s most profitable hedge fund

    The billionaire hedge fund manager has deep convictions on finance, philanthropy — and, increasingly, faith

    Chris Hohn
  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2026
    UK economy
    London’s economy loses its lustre

    The city has been hit by successive shocks and diminishing growth. But the rest of the UK needs it

    People silhouetted against a panoramic cityscape view through glass, with St. Paul’s Cathedral and central London landmarks visible below
  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2026
    US politics & policy
    JD Vance stakes his claim

    In the 2028 battle for the White House, the vice-president may face off against secretary of state Marco Rubio

    US vice-president JD Vance applauds on the day US President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber
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