White House comes for James Comey for a third time

Also in today’s newsletter, inside the fundraising push against California’s wealth tax

EU’s border agency to boost powers to return irregular migrants

Also in this newsletter: Bloc needs more water for its data centre build-out, warns industry chief

Growth in every postcode? What the UK economy really looks like

Interactive maps give a picture of how economic fortunes in Britain have varied wildly over a stagnant decade

Transcript: Anthropic details ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO filing

Marc Filippino talks to George Hammond, James Shotter and Peter Andringa

Anthropic details ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO filing

Update: Lula pulls off election win in Brazil

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins a historic fourth presidential term

Can Europe find a third way?

A new ‘great game’ is afoot in the Arctic and the continent needs to build its own military capability in the region

Relieving Starlink’s chokehold takes more than good intentions

The EU is making slow progress in building alternative satellite systems

Vučić’s defeat opens door for Serbia to reheat frigid EU ties

Also in this newsletter: Meloni’s electoral overhaul faces legal challenge

Serbia’s strongman leader voted out

Aleksander Vučić admits he was defeated by student protest movement

Transcript: Serbia’s strongman leader voted out

Josh Gabert-Doyon speaks with Eva Xiao and Harry Dempsey

Can Pakistan’s military government make the economy grow?

Islamabad has stopped tailspin but faces deeper reforms to break boom-and-bust cycle and lure investment

Lula is re-elected Brazil’s president in knife-edge vote

Victory of 80-year-old leftist over Flávio Bolsonaro is blow to Trump’s plan for greater US influence in Latin America

Britain needs ‘chainsaw economics’

Shock therapy can liberate the country from a cycle of low growth, rising debt and an expanding state

Hundreds of thousands protest in France in second weekend of mass demonstrations

Government puts 70,000 police officers on the streets to boost security after last weekend’s riots

Students worry AI is about to kill their future

Young people are increasingly anxious — and angry — at a Big Tech revolution and what it means for their job prospects

US voters worried about corruption under Trump — FT poll

Americans link graft to affordability crisis as midterm elections loom

The Black Sea is now the world’s deadliest shipping route

Fatalities of commercial sailors caught in battle between Russia and Ukraine are outstripping deaths in the Gulf

Musk’s bet of the century

The proposed Tesla-SpaceX merger is going all in on AI