Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Global logistics groups are rushing to relocate Chinese staff as more manufacturers in the country prepare to expand overseas in anticipation of tougher trading conditions with the US under a second Donald Trump presidency. France’s […]
Skyrocketing raw commodity prices and growing sustainability pressures are pushing chocolate and confectionery companies to pour funding into finding alternative ingredients for sweet treats. Mondelez International, the maker of Oreo, was among the investors that took part in a $4.5mn seed funding round for cell-based cocoa start-up Celleste Bio earlier this month, while British food […]
Israel said it had shot down a missile fired by Houthi militants in Yemen, hours after Israel’s defense minister threatened to “behead” the group’s leadership.
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French film companies Rectangle Productions and Goodfellas have completed their merger, the two companies unveiled on Friday. Rectangle, the production house behind San Sebastian opener Emmanuelle and 2021 Venice festival winner Happeningand Vincent Maraval’s Goodfellas, who have handled international sales on such features as Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning The Boy and The Heronand Francis Ford Coppola’s […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A coalition of environmental groups challenged California’s leading climate regulator on Wednesday, alleging that a recent update to a leading climate program will create additional pollution in the state’s San Joaquin Valley. Their lawsuit filed in Fresno county superior court calls on the California Air Resources Board to “adequately disclose, analyze […]
“Get Pete Hegseth on the phone!” It was March 2018, and then-President Donald Trump was meeting with his Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, Dr. David Shulkin, about how to reform veteran health care. But it was Hegseth, then a Fox News personality, whose opinion Trump really wanted. Hegseth, now Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary […]
Human rights groups in Guinea say they believe more than 135 football fans were killed in a crush at a stadium on Sunday, most of them children. The figure, which is unverified, far exceeds the official number of deaths at 56. The groups said the estimate was based on information from hospital, cemeteries, witnesses at […]
Scores of people were killed after forces opposed to the government of President Bashar al-Assad overtook a Syrian military base, a monitoring group reported.
