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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria

    Satellite imagery shows no signs of withdrawal from air and naval facilities

    A satellite image of Russia-operated Hmeimim air base in Latakia, Syria, on Sunday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Reckoning with an era of slow growth

    Opportunities exist for the UK and its European neighbours, but they must grasp the nettle of economic reform

    James Ferguson illustration of John Bull riding a penny farthing bicycle with a square-shaped back wheel up a climbing red chart line, as a British bulldog looks on
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Financial services
    FCA chair warns UK against regulatory ‘race to the bottom’ with Trump

    Ashley Alder underlines danger of pursuing a US-led ‘deregulation agenda’

    Ashley Alder
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK local government finance
    Birmingham equal pay deal raises doubt over council’s bankruptcy

    Authority to pay about £250mn to settle historic dispute, far less than previously expected

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    The Assads’ Syrian heartland casts them aside

    Allies of the ruling family have fled while coastal areas from which the regime drew support are celebrating its downfall

    Destroyed naval vessels
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Katie Martin
    Investors need to keep an eye on Ukraine

    Now is the time for money managers to at least think about how they would respond if peace broke out

    Local residents attend a memorial ceremony under a destroyed bridge in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Financial Conduct Authority UK
    UK regulator behaved ‘unfairly’ over mis-selling scandal redress scheme, court told

    FCA ‘shut out’ businesses wrongly sold products designed to protect against interest rate changes, High Court hears

    The FCA logo
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK government spending
    Review of £1.2tn in UK public spending will ‘be tight’, minister warns

    Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones launches line-by-line assessment to find 5% savings

    Darren Jones and Rachel Reeves during a visit to Maidstone hospital on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone’s purchase of London’s ‘Can of Ham’ skyscraper falls through

    US investment group had been in exclusive talks to buy office building for about £300mn

    Can of Ham office tower
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK energy
    EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market

    Brussels says its ‘no cherry picking’ rule should apply to co-operation on electricity trading

    Wind turbines off the coast of Scotland
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell and Greenpeace settle ‘Cousin Greg’ lawsuit over protesters boarding vessel

    Environmental group to give £300,000 to charity and stay away from four North Sea platforms for at least five years

    Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat, carrying a flag that says “Stop drilling, start paying”, approaching a Shell platform
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Ashtead Group PLC
    Ashtead plans to move listing to New York in fresh blow to London

    Construction equipment group generates most of its profits in North America

    A Sunbelt digger
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why EU countries are freezing Syrian asylum applications Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How Rachel Reeves’ pitch to Brussels went down

    A cyclist passes containers used as houses for refugees at former Berlin Tempelhof airport
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Sarah O'Connor
    Economists need to get their story straight on immigration

    Focusing on the impact on the wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow

    Farm workers in overalls and hairnets sort through freshly cut asparagus
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    MPs should quiz ‘finfluencers’, says Treasury select committee chair

    Meg Hillier highlights concern over people turning to ‘some random on TikTok’ for financial guidance

    Dame Meg Hillier
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    News in-depthUkraine military briefing
    Ukraine’s patchy fortifications help Russia advance

    Invading troops capture more territory in Donetsk and move closer to region’s western border

    Montage of a map and a tank
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    AllianceBernstein LP
    AllianceBernstein to sue Switzerland over $17bn Credit Suisse debt wipeout

    US asset manager will join case over decision when UBS took over struggling rival

    A Swiss flag above a Credit Suisse sign in Bern, Switzerland, in 2023
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Agricultural production
    EU’s new agriculture chief seeks more funds for small farmers

    Christophe Hansen seeks changes to bloc’s multibillion-euro farm subsidy scheme

    Farmers protesting in Carcassonne, southern France
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    John Gapper
    Christie’s has brought the dinosaur auction show to London

    Scientists have been priced out by billionaires in the global market for prehistoric fossils

    Three dinosaur skeletons
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Renewable electricity to overtake fossil fuels in UK this year

    Wind closes in on gas as largest single generation source, study finds

    An aerial view of a solar park
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK universities
    Students priced out of London as rents rise faster than loans

    Pressure on government to take action over the ‘cost of learning crisis’ in the UK capital

    London Metropolitan University
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    German union boss urges Berlin to scrap borrowing cap to safeguard economy

    IG Metall chair Christiane Benner addresses thousands of VW workers striking over planned closure of several plants

    IG Metall chair Christiane Benner
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK local government finance
    Birmingham to settle equal pay claim that tipped council into bankruptcy

    Payout likely to be lower than original top-end estimate of £760mn which has led to steep service cuts and asset sales

    Council House in Victoria Square, Birmingham
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syrian rebels seek to consolidate control

    HTS issues amnesty for conscripted military but Israel grabs territory on border

    Crowds on Umayyad Square in Damascus celebrate the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Several EU nations and the UK pause asylum claims from Syrians

    Fall of Assad regime prompts immigration rethink in Europe

    Expatriate Syrians gather with flags in Berlin on Sunday to celebrate the fall of the Assad regime
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