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Candidates loyal to imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan have stormed to a shock lead in Pakistan’s election results count defying a military-backed campaign of arrests and harassment
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan, is on track for a strong showing in early results in Pakistan’s election despite a military-backed crackdown
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The judge behind the drive to bury Latin America’s biggest corruption probe
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Mexico’s president calls for parts of US to be renamed ‘Mexican America’
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Opinion: William Ruto is not the first leader whose polished international image fails to reflect his sinking domestic reputation. But he is a stark example of the difficulty of reconciling global obligations with domestic political realities
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China’s J-10 ‘Dragon’ shows teeth in India-Pakistan combat debut
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Pakistan in power vacuum after Imran Khan defies election odds from jail
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Pakistan’s election results have left the country in turmoil, with the success of those loyal to Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf dealing a historic blow to the military’s political influence
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Argentina’s Javier Milei denounces UN’s ‘socialist’ agenda in speech
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Kenya’s populist president has misread the popular mood | opinion.
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‘Pakistan’s most consequential election has altered the national political landscape.’ . Rivals of the jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan, are grappling with the sharp backlash against military-backed, family-run parties.
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Breaking news: Brazil’s former leader Jair Bolsonaro has been formally charged with leading a coup plot intended to keep him in power after losing the 2022 election to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Much of the work to dismantle the results of Brazil's Car Wash corruption probe — which recovered billions of dollars from companies involved — has been at the hands of the country's Supreme Court and, in particular, Justice José Antonio Dias Toffoli.
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Poland must look at acquiring nuclear weapons, says Donald Tusk
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Brazil supreme court overturns ‘Car Wash’ corruption convictions
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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.'
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Robert Shrimsley: 'The world has a new and heroic freedom fighter. De Gaulle, Gandhi, Mandela and now Puigdemont'
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Brazil’s supreme court orders probe of anti-corruption organisation
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The new figure is a warning sign for the libertarian president and his government's austerity programme, as his popularity begins to falter.
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Pakistan’s election results are a rare repudiation of the powerful army’s long-running manipulation of elections in Pakistan, with voters recoiling at the increasingly overt attempts to crush Imran Khan’s party
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Peter Obi’s ‘Obidient’ movement shakes up Nigerian presidential race
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Brazil threatens to regulate social media after clash with Elon Musk
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Opinion: Donald Trump will never win the Nobel Peace prize. But he should be a strong contender for the Charlemagne prize — which is awarded each year to the person who has made the greatest contribution to European unity.
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Pakistan election results delayed after mobile phone service blackout
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Mexico’s leftist president is pushing to completely reshape the judiciary in his final weeks in office, replacing all federal judges, including those on the supreme court. It is an overhaul that threatens judicial independence
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Rich in resources, the world’s largest non-continental island may have only 57,000 inhabitants but it has an outsized role in security matters. Here's why Donald Trump wants Greenland:
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The Kenyan president’s tax-raising efforts have ignited a social movement that should be a warning to other fiscally constrained governments. We explain why Kenyan citizens are rejecting austerity measures:
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As Imran Khan languishes in a Pakistani jail, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party is turning to unconventional methods including artificial intelligence and rallies on TikTok to mobilise millions of supporters ahead of next week’s general election
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People briefed on the matter said the billionaire believed 'western civilisation' was under threat, and that he was interested in building support for parties such as Reform UK to force a change.
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Brazil’s ruling Workers’ party seeks to gag central bank chief
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Chile’s rejection of populism is an example for the world | opinion.
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The detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu has sent the Turkish currency and markets tumbling. The move marks an intensifying crackdown on the country’s opposition party ahead of the 2028 elections
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Inauguration crowd size estimates are in: .-Trump 2017: 250,000.-Obama 2013: 1,000,000.-Obama 2009: 1,800,000.
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Spanish PM Sánchez called to testify over graft allegations against wife
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Breaking news: The US is on track to grow at double the rate of any other G7 country this year, according to IMF forecasts.
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Four of the world’s five richest men were placed more prominently than members of his own cabinet, with some of their spouses occupying seats at the expense of governors and members of congress.
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Prosecutors charged the tycoon over an alleged years-long scheme to bribe Indian officials in exchange for billions of dollars’ worth of solar power contracts and concealing such payments from US banks and investors
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Milei told a Davos audience that western leaders had been 'co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism, and therefore to poverty', and criticised 'radical feminism' and a 'cruel . environmental agenda'
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After imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan shocked observers at Pakistan’s election, the new coalition government now faces high debt, low growth, raging inflation and lacks a public mandate
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The election’s outcome ultimately makes the country even less governable. The coalition will struggle for legitimacy, the FT editorial board writes
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Brazil’s Lula ‘persona non grata’ in Israel as Gaza war angers developing world
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Can people be fooled into thinking authoritarianism is better than democracy? Here is what award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood has to say:
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A file seen by the FT outlines a confidential plan by Brussels to shut off all EU funding to Budapest in order to spark a run on Hungary's currency and drive a collapse in investor confidence
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Breaking news: TikTok told its 170mn US users on Saturday that it will no longer be available ‘temporarily’
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Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China
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In his debut speech to the UN General Assembly, the libertarian leader called on countries to instead join his 'freedom agenda'.
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Breaking news: Donald Trump’s statement in a Truth Social post on Wednesday comes as the new US president tries to ratchet up the pressure on Moscow to launch negotiations with Ukraine.
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Regions with the biggest votes for Leave are also the most economically dependent on the EU
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Confiscating assets of foreign states in response to an unjust war has been normal practice throughout history. Russia’s blatant violations of international laws require a response, and investors should be comforted that rules are enforced.
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Argentina’s Javier Milei says west ‘in danger’ in fiery Davos speech
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Colombia halts coal exports to Israel in protest against war in Gaza
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Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, our Big Read on the libertarian's first year as Argentina's president was our most-read story.
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‘Hamas is more Vietcong than Isis.’. Faced with Israel’s technological and military superiority, Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigade, has turned Gaza into a haven for guerrilla war.
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Senior Indian opposition politician arrested ahead of general election
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China issues warning over Hong Kong court decision to overturn mask ban
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Israel warns troops off social media after Brazil seeks soldier over Gaza
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Internal review backs Business Insider reporting of Oxman plagiarism claims
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CIA says that Covid-19 probably leaked from Chinese laboratory
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A court decision published this week revealed the Indian group has been under investigation in Switzerland since at least December 2021. Adani has denied any wrongdoing
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Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets
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The Catalan president evaded helicopters tracking him by parking under a bridge and swapping cars so he could vote
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Javier Milei’s strategy for reviving Argentina’s stricken economy is widely perceived as high-risk, but the libertarian president waved aside doubts during a confident interview
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EU will defend borders, says French minister in response to Trump’s Greenland threats
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