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Each week, we focus on one of the major international stories making headlines, drawing upon the Financial Times's team of foreign correspondents and analysts to make sense of world events....
Life in Europe's coronavirus hotspots: Foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman discusses how the coronavirus epidemic has been handled in I...
In this special episode from Hong Kong, Gideon Rachman talks to Regina Ip, a member of the territory's Executive Council and Legislative Cou...
What are the factors Britain and its allies need to consider as they weigh their response to Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker in t...
The judicial inquiry into alleged graft under the presidency of Jacob Zuma is laying bare the divisions of the ruling ANC. Gideon Rachman di...
Gideon Rachman discusses the crisis in Britain's relations with the US following the unscheduled departure of Kim Darroch as ambassador to W...
Gideon Rachman discusses the fraught process of selecting a new leadership team in Europe and the impact these choices will have on integrat...
Martin Sandbu discusses the prospects that leaders attending this year's G20 summit in Osaka will be able to patch up their differences on t...
EU foreign ministers this week postponed a decision on whether to open membership negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia until Octobe...
Protesters fought pitched battles with police in central Hong Kong in an eruption of public anger against an extradition bill that critics s...
The US has threatened to impose levies of 5 per cent starting on June 10 on all Mexican products unless Mexico takes action to contain migra...
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, took office six months ago with a pledge to fight crime, revive economic growth and open the Amazon to d...
Sebastian Kurz’s ruling coalition has been blown apart after an incriminating video was published in which Heinz Christian Strache, former v...
Anne Sylvaine-Chassany discusses the sharp deterioration in relations between Europe and the US against the backdrop of growing tensions in...
The decision to order a re-run of the Istanbul mayoral election which an opposition candidate won by a small margin is testing the faith of...
The ruling African National Congress is expected to fend off all challenges in South Africa's forthcoming elections - the country's sixth si...
Ukraine's new president Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian with no political experience, has promised to crack down on corruption and try to bri...
Gideon Rachman discusses the emotional, cultural and political impact of the fire that devastated France's Notre Dame cathedral this week wi...
Italy's Matteo Salvini is seeking to upend the traditional balance of power in Brussels by forming an alliance of anti-immigration European...
The crucial local elections delivered a rare political disappointment for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. What do the polls say about the st...
Can Israel's long serving prime minister overcome allegations of corruption and renewed violence from Gaza to win a fifth term in office? Gi...
Gideon Rachman discusses Italy's controversial move to endorse China's Belt and Road Initiative with Miles Johnson and Christian Shepherd Ho...
Lawyers, senators, millennials. The field of Democrats vying for the Oval Office two years from now already includes more than a dozen conte...
After decades of calm, Algerians have taken to the streets to rage against the candidacy of the ageing and ailing president Abdelaziz Boutef...
Pakistan and India are facing their worst conflict in almost half a century after an Indian military jet was shot down over disputed Kashmir...
Now that Isis has been crushed in Syria and Iraq, who has responsibility for what happens to the defeated fighters, some of them European na...
Europe's pre-eminent gathering of the Transatlantic foreign policy elite gathers in Munich this week. Traditionally a show of affection betw...
The EU decision to block a proposed tie up between French and German train companies Alstom and Siemens has angered politicians in Paris and...
Gideon Rachman discusses the implicatons of Donald Trump's tough new stance towards the Maduro regime in Venezuela with Jonathan Wheatley an...
Germany and France signed a new treaty in the border town of Aachen on Tuesday that commits them to deeper co-operation on foreign and defen...
FT analysis points to huge fraud in the first change of power since Joseph Kabila took over the presidency of the mineral-rich central Afric...
2019 will be momentous for the European Union, with all the top jobs up for grabs, elections in May that will test the strength of populist...
What impact will the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzho in Canada have on the trade negotiations between the US and Chin...
An online protest against a proposed fuel tax rise has morphed into a wide-ranging, mass protest against stagnating wages, a decrease in pur...
As Mexicans await the inauguration of their new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , at the weekend, rattled investors are watching to s...
Interpol, the global police organisation, has appointed its new chief. Usually a quiet affair, the appointment became headline news when it...
Gideon Rachman discusses the rising political tensions in the Chinese territory with Ben Bland, Hong Kong correspondent, and Victor Mallet,...
Gideon Rachman discusses the implications of the US mid-term election results for the Democrats and Republicans with the FT's Geoff Dyer and...
Angela Merkel is on her way out as the leader of Germany. Her decision to stand down as chair of the Christian Democratic Union sets up a ba...
Anne Sylvaine-Chassany and guests discuss Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the so-called Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty, How...
Gideon Rachman discusses the regional and international repercussions of the apparent murder by Saudi agents of an exiled journalist in Turk...
A UN report on climate change this week concluded the earth had warmed by 1C since pre-industrial times and was likely to heat up by a furth...
Daniel Dombey discusses the new trilateral pact called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement with the FT's Alan Beattie and James Politi...
Theresa May left last week’s EU summit in Salzburg in trouble: her Chequers plan for Britain's departure from the EU was rejected by other E...
Weeks before Brazil's presidential election, voters appear to be gravitating to opposite ends of the political spectrum, with a right-wing p...
Almost unnoticed, Africa has become the world’s most rapidly urbanising continent. Daniel Dombey discusses the implications with David Pilli...
With polls showing a surge in support for the far right Sweden Democrats, Gideon Rachman discusses the outlook for Sweden's general election...
Gideon Rachman discusses the impact on Iran's economic and political stability of the US decision to reimpose sanctions, with the FT's Najme...
The world is watching results come in from Zimbabwe 's first presidential election without Robert Mugabe on the ballot. The ruling Zanu-PF h...
Imran Khan, who entered politics in 1996 after retiring from international cricket, is on track to become Pakistan’s next prime minister aft...
The Helsinki summit has left both President Trump and President Putin looking weaker as the missed opportunities of their first summit becom...