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This article is an on-site version of our Europe Express newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday and fortnightly on Saturday morning. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersGood morning. Nato leaders are meeting in Ankara at a summit designed to please Donald Trump with defence investment pledges — but today’s talks have been overshadowed by his threat to “remove all of our soldiers” from Europe and overnight strikes on Iran. Follow the summit live with my colleagues and I on the ground.Here, Ukraine’s president tells our correspondent his…
Birds fly over houses overshadowed by the mountain in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 10, 2026.Florent Vergnes | Afp | Getty ImagesDanish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday delivered a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s latest push for U.S. control of Greenland, saying the Scandinavian country is ready to defend “every inch” of its territory. Speaking to reporters on the second day of the NATO summit in Turkey’s capital Ankara, Denmark’s Frederiksen underscored the message that Greenland is not for sale.Her comments come shortly after the U.S. president renewed his threat to seek to acquire the self-governing Danish territory, suggesting that…
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Following that relatively late peak, annual Switch sales fell off much more slowly than those for other Nintendo consoles. By its ninth full fiscal year (which ended in March), for instance, the Wii was barely hanging on, selling new hardware at a rate less than 1 percent of its annual peak years earlier. But the Switch was still selling at about 13 percent of its peak annual sales in its ninth full fiscal year, shipping a significant 3.8 million units. Things look even better for the Switch when you look at software sales. Nintendo sold nearly 137 million pieces of…
At the summit, Sir Keir is expected to underline the threat posed by Russia to the UK and Nato. The government said Nato had scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian aircraft approaching allied airspace more than 700 times and that Russian military activity around UK waters had surged 30%.Sir Keir is expected to stress that whilst Nato did not seek confrontation with Russia, it must be ready to defend every ally.Cooper said: “With deep precision strike capability, the UK and our allies will be able to hit high value military targets and the logistical engines that drive armies, deterring any…
This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The dispatchAlthough yet to submit himself to proper media questioning, Andy Burnham, Britain’s incoming — and unelected — prime minister, is fleshing out his policy aims.One of his big ideas, announced last week in Manchester, is a “No. 10 North” in which swathes of civil servants currently working in the prime minister’s iconic London office would relocate to a new operation in the north-western city.Burnham, who was Greater Manchester’s mayor from 2017, sees it as a genuine step towards “rewiring” Britain and devolving power from London’s Whitehall —…
Humanoid robots are on display at the booth of U.S. chipmaker Nvidia during the 4th Supply Chain Expo in China.Johannes Neudecker | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesIs tech’s biggest sleeping giant about to wake up?Shares of Nvidia fought into the green despite a 5% sell-off in chip stocks tracked by the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH), a notable outperformance a day after a research report claiming the AI leader was at least a year behind on manufacturing of its next line of server racks.The stock’s trading just under $200, a level it’s flirted with since late last month, down 17% from…
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CANADA – 2026/05/23: In this photo illustration, the CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesApple has begun testing DRAM chips from China’s state-backed ChangXin Memory Technologies for devices sold within China and is lobbying the U.S government to permit broader use of CXMT’s products, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.The company’s decision comes as its involvement with Chinese suppliers becomes a sensitive geopolitical issue amid growing U.S. efforts to contain China’s tech ambitions. CXMT is…
The country needs to be “woken up” to the threat of war, a former Nato secretary general has said, as he urged the next prime minister to look again at the level of spending on defence.Lord Robertson told MPs that Britain’s Nato allies were “disturbed” by the delay to the UK government’s plan to invest in defence, which he described as “unconvincing”.Last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer set out plans to increase military spending by £15bn over the next four years, following a bitter row over defence funding.Sir Keir is expected to face pressure to ramp up defence spending…