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Andrew England

Middle East Editor

Andrew England is the Middle East editor. He was previously MIddle East and Africa news editor. Prior to that, he spent 17 years based in the Middle East and Africa as a foreign correspondent. His posts included Southern Africa bureau chief, Abu Dhabi bureau chief and Middle East and North Africa correspondent.

He joined the Financial Times in 2004 as East Africa correspondent. Before joining the FT, he was East Africa correspondent for the Associated Press.

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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Iran nuclear deal
    Iran has increased enriched uranium by 50%, says UN watchdog

    IAEA findings raise new concerns over country’s capabilities amid nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington

    Members of the Iranian delegation leave the Omani embassy where the fifth round of US-Iran talks took place in Rome on May 23
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia to ‘take stock’ of spending after oil price drop

    Finance minister tells FT the kingdom’s priority is to avoid long-running ‘trap of booms and busts’

    General view of Aramco’s oilfield in the Empty Quarter, Shaybah, Saudi Arabia
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Saudi Arabia seeks to use financial might to muscle into global AI industry

    PIF-backed Humain courts US tech investors and plans $10bn venture fund

    Tareq Amin, chief executive of Humain
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK considers sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers

    Discussions regard travel ban and asset freeze on finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with the finance minister Bezalel Smotrich
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran leader says he does not expect results from US talks

    Comments damp expectations of breakthrough to end long-running crisis over Tehran’s nuclear programme

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Qatar
    Qatar denies its offer of $400mn jet to Trump is bribery

    Country’s prime minister says the US has accepted many gifts from allies in the past

    Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Flatter or confront? How world leaders are dealing with Trump

    Four months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, governments are still agonising over how to approach an erratic, unpredictable American president

  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    News in-depthUS foreign policy
    Jumbo jets, megadeals and flattery: Trump’s Gulf tour

    US president’s visit has been a four-day jamboree of opulent ceremonies and petrodollar-fuelled investment pledges

    US President Donald Trump departs Saudi Arabia from King Khalid airport in Riyadh
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Oil prices fall on Trump’s Iran deal comments

    Drop comes as US president says ‘serious negotiations’ are under way with Tehran

    Oil pumpjacks operate at dusk Willow Springs Park in Long Beach, California
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Qatar orders up to 210 Boeing jets during Trump visit

    Oil-rich Gulf state praised by US president as White House announces $243bn in business deals

    US President Donald Trump and Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani take part in a signing ceremony at the Royal Palace in Doha on May 14 2025
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Syria
    Trump holds warm meeting with ‘tough guy’ Syrian leader

    US president meets with Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia after promising to lift sanctions on war-ravaged country

    US President Donald Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 14 2025
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Trump lauds Saudi Arabia as he unveils AI and defence deals

    US president highlights enduring ‘bonds’ with the kingdom as White House hails pacts worth about $600bn

    US President Donald Trump, left, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
    Trump seeks bromance and billions as he heads to Gulf

    US president expects flurry of deals on first official foreign trip but Israel’s war in Gaza is roiling the region

    US President Donald Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman  and UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Air Force One
    Trump defends gift of 747 jet from Qatar as new Air Force One

    Gulf state’s offer to replace ageing presidential plane raises ethics concerns

    US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he disembarks from Air Force One at Palm Beach International airport in Florida on Sunday
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia launches AI venture Humain ahead of Trump visit

    Riyadh’s latest multibillion-dollar push will bring new focus to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s tech ambitions

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sitting inside a tent in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia in January 2025
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas to release Israeli-American hostage in bid to secure Gaza ceasefire

    Palestinian militant group’s move comes as Donald Trump prepares to visit the Middle East this week

    Varda Ben Baruch holds a picture of her grandson Edan Alexander, who is held hostage in Gaza
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Trump says US will stop bombing Houthis in Yemen

    US says rebel group has agreed to halt its attacks on regional shipping in the Red Sea

    Houthi supporters shout slogans and hold up their weapons during a protest against the US in Sana’a, Yemen on April 25
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Middle East war
    Trump’s bombing campaign against Houthis tests his vow to ‘stop wars’

    The US is conducting its largest bombardment since the war on Isis — with no clear endgame

    A drone view shows charred vehicles standing in the aftermath of what Al Masirah TV said was a US strike on the Ras Isa fuel port, Al Jazirah, Yemen in April 2025
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK in talks with France and Saudi Arabia over recognising a Palestinian state

    European and Arab powers push for resolution to crisis caused by Hamas-Israel war as UN conference nears

    British foreign secretary David Lammy
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    Saudi Arabia
    Neom’s acting chief reviews Saudi mega-project after setbacks

    Aiman al-Mudaifer was appointed last year following increasing scrutiny of futuristic plan

    Neom city scheme
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Rubio says US may accept civilian nuclear programme in Iran

    Secretary of state suggests Tehran must import enriched uranium and halt domestic production

    A group of workers outside the reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK Jewish body launches probe into letter criticising Israeli offensive in Gaza

    Board of Deputies of British Jews suspends vice-chair and investigates signatories to criticism of Netanyahu policy

  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
    Iran nuclear deal
    US and Iran agree to another round of talks to end nuclear stand-off

    Adversaries will meet in Oman next week after ‘forward-looking’ negotiations in Rome

    Residents stroll past an anti-US mural on a street in Tehran ahead of talks in Rome
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Yemen
    US strikes on Yemeni port killed dozens, Houthis claim

    Raids on Friday were deadliest in Trump administration’s bombing campaign against Iran-backed movement

    A fuel tank burns at the Ras Isa fuel port in Yemen following the US air strikes
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi Arabia’s defence minister visits Iran ahead of US talks

    Prince Khalid bin Salman is highest-ranking royal to hold meetings in Tehran in decades

    Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammed Bagheri and Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Tehran
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