A 48-year-old woman from Arizona has pleaded guilty to charges related to a criminal scheme which saw North Korean IT workers employed remotely by hundreds of US companies. Christian Marie Chapman, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, is said to have helped generate over US $17 million for North Korea after over 300 US companies unwittingly hired … Read more
Călin Georgescu’s dramatic rise in support in the first round of Romania’s presidential election in November 2024 made headlines across the world. Mihaela Mihai and Camil Ungureanu write that Georgescu’s popularity rests on his ability to project three distinct types of authority. In November, Călin Georgescu emerged from obscurity to win the first round of … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters here Good morning and welcome back to FirstFT Asia. Markets are set for turmoil today after Donald Trump launched a global … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. India’s government is under pressure to turn around a slowing economy but with little room to manoeuvre as it prepares to present one of the most consequential budgets since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gautam Adani said that “every attack makes us stronger” in his first public remarks about the US corruption charges he is facing in connection with a bribery scheme. The Department of Justice indicted Adani and … Read more
