October 2, 2023
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — After declaring his intention to run for president in late August, Terry Gou, the Taiwanese billionaire founder of Foxconn who some have compared to Donald Trump, is now an officially registered independent candidate. Gou resigned as a board member of Foxconn in early September, citing a need to focus on the election. He
READ MORE
From a distance, the cemetery looks much like any other in Israel, but examine the tombs closely and a startling fact is revealed: Here are buried Jews, Muslims and Christians. The graveyard lies in the Oasis of Peace, a small village off the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and home to some 70
READ MORE
Under the guise of saving refugees, the United Arab Emirates is running an elaborate covert operation to back one side in Sudan’s spiraling war — supplying powerful weapons and drones, treating injured fighters and airlifting the most serious cases to one of its military hospitals, according to a dozen current and former officials from the
READ MORE
Lea Iodice was thrilled to hear that the Peace Corps had accepted her application and was sending her to Senegal as a community health care worker. She shared the good news with her roommates, her family and her favorite professor and daydreamed about her last day at her job, managing a gym called SnapFitness. She
READ MORE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he was glad to hear the optimistic tone from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about ongoing efforts to normalize relations between the two countries. “I was delighted to hear what he had to say,” Netanyahu told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier in an
READ MORE
The fourth day of the United Nations General Assembly meeting kicked off in New York City on Friday, with leaders from countries all over the world speaking about pressing issues, such as climate change and global conflict. More than 100 world leaders spoke during the first three days of speeches. So far the main topics
READ MOREPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday that Middle East peace was not achievable until the Palestinians are granted full rights. He spoke as the United States appeared to make progress in brokering a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. “Whoever thinks peace in the Middle East is possible
READ MORE
A fragile ceasefire held on Friday in Nagorno-Karabakh, as Armenian separatists met with Azerbaijan for peace talks. Although initial talks did not conclude with an agreement, “one of the small achievements of the negotiations is that the Azerbaijani delegation agreed to send petrol and water to villagers in Nagorno-Karabakh who have been reporting a severe
READ MORE
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev declared victory in a televised address to the nation, saying his country had restored its sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh. Representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Azerbaijan government held a first round of talks Thursday on the future of the breakaway region that Azerbaijan now says it fully controls following a military offensive this
READ MORE
Receive free US-China trade dispute updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US-China trade dispute news every morning. Read the headlines and the picture is clear: geopolitical tensions between the US and China have risen alarmingly and the world’s two biggest economies are decoupling fast. US investors have been
READ MORE