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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Barry Callebaut’s stock tumbled almost 20 per cent to a 12-year low on Thursday after the Swiss chocolatier revised down its sales forecast for the year, citing “unprecedented volatility” in the cocoa market. The world’s largest cocoa processor now expects a mid-single-digit percentage fall in its cocoa sales volumes for the financial year ending in August, compared with its earlier forecast of a low single-digit percentage decline.The company, which supplies cocoa to global food companies including Nestlé, has been hit hard by what…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Near the grand facade of the Bank of England, in front of the Royal Exchange shopping arcade, it is plain to see the new balance of forces in the City of London. Office buildings reach low around the London Stock Exchange, while tall towers loom to the east along Fenchurch Street and in the insurance district.Richard Rogers’ shiny Lloyd’s of London building sits amid the skyscrapers, dwarfed in scale but the reason that so many insurers are packed into a small area.…

George Hornedo, a liberal activist and Democratic Party strategist in Indianapolis, had already been weighing a primary challenge to the local congressman when he was confronted last month by a senior Indiana Democrat.Asked whether he was planning a run, Mr. Hornedo, 34, acknowledged he was considering it. The woman, he recalled, told him he was “going to get hurt.” He posted his recounting of the interaction on TikTok, where it quickly went viral. “Don’t let them scare you off,” one commenter wrote.On Wednesday, Mr. Hornedo announced his campaign against the nine-term incumbent, Representative André Carson, while deriding him and those…

In the heat of an argument last spring, Khyla Mason raised a handgun into the air on a neighbor’s porch. She was acting in self-defense, she said, and never fired, but the confrontation was captured on video, and some children were nearby. Ms. Mason wound up in a St. Louis jail charged with unlawful use of a weapon.Just a few years ago, someone facing the same charge in St. Louis was likely to pay a small bond and resume life as usual until trial, local attorneys said. But Ms. Mason, who was then 21, was released from jail with a…

If West Coast coach Andrew McQualter is to finally get the club’s rebuild running in earnest, there are some young guns Champion Data numbers suggest must be backed in for as many games as possible.

SENDING A SIGNAL THROUGH ASEAN Xi’s selection of the three Southeast Asian countries – Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia – reflects a mutual alignment of interests, analysts say. Cambodia has long been one of China’s staunchest allies in the region. Both countries have maintained a strong alliance for decades, strengthened by lucrative infrastructure investment deals and military support.  Xi has not visited Cambodia since 2016 and his upcoming trip will be his first since Hun Manet assumed office, observers say, adding that the visit in April will aim to strengthen ties with the country’s new leadership. Relations between Vietnam and China have…

A BYD Denza Z9 GT electric car on display in Hong Kong in February 2025.Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese electric car giant BYD is pushing ahead into Europe, launching its premium Denza brand in the region despite rising trade tensions.The first model, the Z9GT, is set to arrive in European showrooms in the fourth quarter of 2025, BYD said Wednesday during Brera Design Week in Milan. The company did not specify prices or a delivery date for the station wagon-type car.The Z9GT for Europe will come in both battery-only and plug-in hybrid versions, BYD said.BYD…

The Americans were in a hurry.Adam Boehler, a senior U.S. official, wanted Hamas to agree to the release of the last living American Israeli hostage in Gaza so that President Trump could announce his freedom during a speech to Congress.The two sides were still haggling as Mr. Trump arrived at the Capitol, and they failed to meet the deadline, according to four people familiar with the discussion, leaving the president to make only a passing reference to hostages in Gaza.Still, the talks, which eschewed decades of entrenched animosity, carried on the next day, demonstrating how eager the two sides were…

Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina, who has been wrongfully detained in Russia for more than a year, is on her way back to the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed early Thursday. Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina, who has been wrongfully detained in Russia for more than a year, is on her way back to the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed early Thursday. (Eleonora Srebroski/Handout/Reuters)”American Ksenia Karelina is on a plane back home to the United States. She was wrongfully detained by Russia for over a year and President Trump secured her release. @POTUS will continue to work…

Edgar Vasquez Silva is a sheriff’s deputy with a thick Southern accent and an American dream that’s been years in the making. But he isn’t a U.S. citizen, not yet.”I’m Edgar Vasquez Silva. I’m a deputy for Stone County Sheriff’s Office,” Silva said, speaking proudly of his service to the Wiggins, Mississippi, law enforcement agency in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.As a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient – an Obama-era policy that aimed to provide amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for people who entered the U.S. illegally as children but now only offers temporary protection…