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  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
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    Plus, inflation updates from the US and Germany while the ECB is expected to lower borrowing costs by a quarter-point

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  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
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    Keir Starmer sets out his foreign policy agenda

    Plus, Romania’s chaotic presidential run-off election, US jobs report and Notre-Dame reopens to the public

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  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
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  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
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    G20 leaders gather in Rio while COP29 delegates seek deal in Baku

    Plus, Ukraine war passes 1,000th day milestone

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  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
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    COP29 begins in Baku, Biden visits Peru and Reeves makes first Mansion House speech

    Plus, US reports inflation figures while Japan, the UK and the EU publish first estimates of third-quarter GDP

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  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
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    Americans go to the polls

    Plus, Fed and BoE rate-setting meetings, Hungary’s informal EU summit and the Berlin Wall anniversary

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  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
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    Plus, tech, pharma and oil lead the earnings run, Bank of Japan makes a rate call and Britain’s opposition party picks a new leader

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    Samoa hosts Commonwealth heads of government meeting, IMF reports on global growth and Japan holds snap election

  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
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  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
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    Plus, earnings season steps up a gear as Wall Street banks report, Nobel Prizes are announced and Tesla launches Robotaxi

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  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
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    A changing of the guard

    Mexico’s first female president takes office, Nato gets a new secretary-general and US vice-presidential candidates debate

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  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
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    Keir Starmer addresses first Labour conference as PM

    Plus, Japan’s Liberal Democrats pick new prime minister and UK tech group Raspberry Pi reports its first figures since IPO

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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
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    Jay Powell’s big week

    Plus, court hearing begins in Murdoch succession saga and the FT Business Book of the Year shortlist is announced

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  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
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    Harris and Trump set for debate

    Plus, inflation data from the US and the European Central Bank interest rate decision

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  • Sunday, 1 September, 2024
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    All eyes on US jobs data

    Plus, phase 2 of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire

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  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
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    Private astronauts in space

    Plus, results from CrowdStrike following the outage caused by its software update in July

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  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
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    The Democratic National Convention hits Chicago

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  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
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    Plus, exam results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Singapore’s new PM makes an inaugural address

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  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
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    Kamala Harris set to name her running mate

    Plus, the Olympics draw to a close, earnings season rolls on and the UK celebrates the precious gift of childhood fun

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  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
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    Kamala Harris builds her campaign and Labour reveals all

    Plus, US, UK and Japan’s central banks set interest rates and an overhaul of UK listing rules comes into force

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  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
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    Plus, financial results from the worlds of Big Tech and banking

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  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
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    Trump’s post-shooting coronation in Milwaukee and China’s Third Plenum

    Plus, Labour sets out its legislative agenda, Beijing hosts the Third Plenum and the ECB sets interest rates

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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
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    People vote in the second round of the early French parliamentary elections, at a polling station in Paris
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
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    Also, Hungary takes over the EU presidency and data due on US jobs

    Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
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    Week Ahead: Round one for Biden vs Trump and France’s snap election

    Plus, Jimmy Lai faces the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and a big week for corporate earnings

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