Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said she will proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror law. It comes days after activists from the group broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and spray-painted two military planes red – an incident Cooper called “disgraceful”. The move effectively brands the group a terrorist organisation and, if passed in Parliament,…

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Russia on brink of recession, says economy minister

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russia is on the verge of a recession, its economy minister said on Thursday, the first public admission that the country’s war economy is starting to cool three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered the…

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