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  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    African politics
    Niger president Issoufou wins $5m leadership prize

    Praise from Ibrahim award’s judges for adherence to constitutional two-term limit

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  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Financial services
    Japan’s SBI plans Hong Kong pullout on concerns over security law

    Owner of online brokerage also looking at Europe instead of London for expansion

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  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    US foreign policy
    US reaches deal with South Korea to share troop costs

    Financial support deal follows tense impasse under Trump administration

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  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Biden orders voter registration effort as ballot battle heats up

    Democrats move to counter Republican state clampdown on early and mail-in voting

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    German politics
    Germany’s CDU rocked by pandemic procurement scandal

    Two MPs announced they were resigning, risking damage to Angela Merkel's party a week before regional elections

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Biden on brink of passing historic $1.9tn boost to US economy

    Stimulus bill is bet that massive fiscal intervention will speed recovery without fuelling inflation

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    UK immigration
    Visa-holders entering UK for invalid travel reasons, unions warn

    Officers confronted with arriving air passengers who intend to go shopping or visit friends

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Rana Foroohar
    Wishful thinking on China will not serve American interests

    Beijing’s foreign policy stance towards the US can help inform Washington’s strategy

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new court case despite release from house arrest

    Raab urges Iran to end the dual national charity worker’s ‘cruel and intolerable ordeal’

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  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    UK minister plans post-pandemic schools shake-up

    Williamson says attempts to help children catch up could be opportunity to galvanise system

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Mary Portas
    The high street needs a long-term health plan

    Saving the UK’s retail sector is crucial to rebuilding our communities in the wake of Covid

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    China set to cut proportion of directly elected lawmakers in Hong Kong

    Sweeping changes to electoral laws would signal end of territory’s democratic experiment

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Ecuador
    Ecuador’s Yaku Pérez: ‘A triumph even if we don’t get to the second round’

    Indigenous candidate’s party will wield influence in congress despite likely disappointment in presidential run-off

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The politics of the levelling-up agenda

    Policy should be aimed at poorer towns and not Conservative electoral prospects

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    US-China relations
    Joe Biden enlists ‘Quad’ allies to counter China

    US expected to hold first summit with India, Japan and Australia next week in show of unity against Beijing

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    German politics
    German Greens hope regional win will bolster claim to national power

    A second electoral triumph in Baden-Württemberg would help reassure voters the party is capable of pragmatic government

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    The Big Read
    Militias, corruption and Covid: Rio de Janeiro’s deepening crisis

    In a country that has barely grown for a decade, Brazil’s most famous city is mired in heavy debt and violent crime

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
    Teachers grapple with how to help students scarred by pandemic

    Getting pupils back into the classroom is just start of push to close ‘learning gap’

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    News in-depthCovid-19 vaccines
    Mario Draghi makes his mark with vaccine embargo

    Italian PM’s robust stance on export controls shows impatience with EU procurement approach

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Global InsightNeil Munshi
    Democracy erodes in central and west Africa

    Fresh signs of regression in countries, including Niger and Chad, that help the west to fight jihadis

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Hong Kong politics
    China turns its back on Hong Kong loyalists

    Beijing is putting its faith in its own mainland officials as it clamps down on the territory

  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Senate approves Biden’s $1.9tn stimulus plan

    Green light brings president’s goal of a large-scale federal boost to US economy a step nearer

  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    Martin Wolf
    Rishi Sunak takes an axe to Thatcher’s low-tax ideology

    Planned increases are a move away from Conservative orthodoxy but may deter business investment

  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    Turkish politics
    Chief executive of Istanbul exchange takes leave ahead of AGM

    Decision fuels speculation Hakan Atilla may be replaced to smooth US-Turkey relations under Biden

  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    Jill Biden
    Jill Biden gives early glimpse of how she will play role of first lady

    Former teacher becomes face of push to reopen schools but wields her real power behind the scenes

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