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India international Axar Patel is the last IPL 2025 captain to be named as Delhi Capitals make belated announcement.India’s spin-bowling all-rounder Axar Patel has been named Delhi Capitals captain in the run-up to the new Indian Premier League season, the team said. The 31-year-old is the team’s longest-serving player, having joined in 2019. He has scored 967 runs and picked up 62 wickets at an economy rate of 7.09 in 82 appearances with the Capitals. Axar, who was named India’s Twenty20 International vice-captain in January, takes the Delhi captaincy from Rishabh Pant after his move to Lucknow Super Giants. “It…

President Donald Trump is blaming former President Joe Biden for getting the U.S. into “a real mess with Russia,” but said he would get the U.S. out of it. He called on Russia to commit to the U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire that Ukraine agreed to earlier this week.”Millions of people are needlessly dead, never to be seen again… and there will be many more to follow if we don’t get the ceasefire and final agreement with Russia completed and signed,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “There would have been NO WAR if I were president. It just, 100%,…

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The European Union’s foreign policy chief says tariffs between Western countries only serve China’s interests and is calling for higher defence spending to keep Russia in check. “If the United States is having a trade war with Canada, Mexico or the European Union, then who is really benefiting from this is China,” Kaja Kallas said in an interview Thursday with The Canadian Press.Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia, is overseeing the EU’s approach to an alarming new geopolitical climate — one where the U.S. hints at scaling back its commitment to defending NATO allies and pursues a trade war…

Hamas has agreed to release an American-Israeli dual national, believed to be the last living American hostage held in Gaza, after receiving a proposal from mediators to continue negotiations on the second phase of a ceasefire deal.Hamas said in a statement on Friday that it responded “positively” to the proposal that was presented on Thursday to resume negotiations. It will also release the bodies of four other dual nationality hostages, it said without giving further details.There was no immediate comment from Israel.Two Hamas officials told Reuters their agreement to release the American-Israeli hostage and the four bodies was conditional on…

A contracting firm called Leidos took in more than $16 billion in revenue last year, most of it through contracts with federal agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs.So when the Trump administration’s budget cutters took aim at the V.A. last month, it seemed like bad news not just for the department’s employees but also for Leidos and dozens of other private-sector firms.“No more paying consultants to do things like make Power Point slides and write meeting minutes!” the department’s secretary, Doug Collins, wrote on X. Overall, the department said, it was canceling more than 850 contracts worth nearly $2…

Few tales in corporate finance are as audacious, bewildering, or downright entertaining as that of the company formerly known as MicroStrategy. This once-humdrum business-software vendor has transformed into a high-octane bitcoin investment vehicle under the flamboyant leadership of Michael Saylor, its co-founder and executive chair. The company, now called Strategy, holds nearly 500,000 bitcoins, equivalent to 2.38 per cent of the total supply, acquired at an average price of around $66,000.What captivates markets isn’t just the scale of Strategy’s bitcoin accumulation but the relentless financial engineering underpinning it. The latest manoeuvre is the announcement last week of a $21bn “at-the-market”…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Why do banks even exist in a world of burgeoning private credit? Theoretically because cheap customer deposits allow traditional institutions to lend profitably. As the old joke goes: banking is as easy as 1-2-3. Pay depositors 1 per cent, lend at 2, hit the golf course by 3.Maybe, though, that textbook understanding is wrong. The Bank for International Settlements recently examined how the “weighted average cost of capital of banks” has evolved between the pre-financial crisis era and today. It found they’re…

HANOI: Vietnam is reviewing import duties on goods from the United States, the government said, as anxiety mounts in Hanoi over potential tariffs under President Donald Trump’s administration. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told US ambassador Marc Knapper that the review would look to encourage increased imports of liquified natural gas, as well as agricultural and high-tech products, a report on the government’s website said on Thursday (Mar 13). Vietnam represents the United States’s third-highest trade deficit, behind China and Mexico. There is increasing worry that Hanoi could be the next target of Trump’s tariffs, which have sent shockwaves through global…

Emily Soriano was doing laundry this week when a friend rushed into her house with news about their yearslong quest for justice.In December 2016, gunmen stormed into a house in their poor neighborhood north of Manila and started shooting. They killed seven people, including three children and a pregnant woman. Ms. Soriano and her friend, Isabelita Espinosa, each lost a son, both teenagers.To the victims’ families, the massacre seemed senseless, like thousands of other extrajudicial killings carried out during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs. Ms. Soriano and Ms. Espinosa have long held him responsible for the deaths…