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Professor Nick Bosanquet and Andrew Haldenby vividly highlight the impending emergency in world food stocks and the urgent need to increase arable planting (“Act now on food stocks to avert famine”, Letters, April 12). This is a need we in the UK are disregarding. The land in south Lincolnshire and much of East Anglia is
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Memories of Britain’s 1982 war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands may have faded in London but the wounds in Buenos Aires remain fresh: an image of the islands in the blue and white of the Argentine flag was beamed on to the national congress building on the 40th anniversary this month of the military
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Companies owned by rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have filed for bankruptcy after being hit by defamation lawsuits over Jones’s claims that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. Three companies, including Jones’s InfoWars media outlet, filed for Chapter 11 protection in Southern Texas on Sunday. InfoWars, which has been widely criticised for promoting
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US stocks and bonds fluctuated on Monday morning as investors look ahead to a busy week of corporate earnings and speeches from Federal Reserve officials that may give further guidance on how aggressively policymakers will raise interest rates this year. The S&P 500 swung between gains and losses in thin trading as markets reopened from
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Mexico’s opposition politicians have denied the country’s nationalist president the two-thirds majority he needed to change the constitution and implement a radical energy reform bill. The reform, which would have guaranteed state electricity group CFE 54 per cent of the market, spooked the private sector, opposition and the US government. Critics argued that it was
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Chinese immigration consultants say inquiries from wealthy individuals trying to leave the country have surged following the lockdown of Shanghai, underscoring the mounting frustration with Beijing’s zero-Covid strategy. Calls about emigration have risen sharply this month, according to more than a dozen consultancies, following an outbreak of the Omicron coronavirus variant that led authorities to
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This is an audio transcript of the FT Tech Tonic podcast episode: US-China Tech Race: Shock and Awe Demetri SevastopuloI mean, I have to be very careful and kind of not get into sourcing at all, but I can just say that I had a tip that China had done something incredible and that it
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Last week everyone’s fave attention-junkie technology impresario launched a $43bn hostile offer for Twitter. It has raised Questions, to put it mildly. Apart from the company likely not wanting to sell at just $54.20 per share, a big challenge to Elon Musk’s bid is that the company is not exactly the profit machine that debt
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Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Many people with lingering symptoms of Covid-19 struggle to work or have been forced to leave the workforce entirely. Plus, the FT’s capital markets correspondent, Robert Smith, talks about the lessons learned from the collapse of
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Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secretary, did something important and, for the most part, underreported last week. She relinked trade to values. In an address at the Atlantic Council in Washington, the secretary called for a new Bretton Woods framework and a revamp of the IMF and World Bank institutions, both of which are holding
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