Israeli court deals blow to Netanyahu in ruling on religious students

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s supreme court dealt a blow to Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition on Thursday by ordering it to suspend state subsidies for many ultraorthodox Jews who attend religious schools instead of …

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Caught Up In Concert Shooting, A Russian Woman Said Goodbye To World

Returning home, Alyona Kazinskaya says she just “hugged everyone”. Moscow:  Russian artist Alyona Kazinskaya likes to fill her social media feed with cheerful messages and vivid floral paintings. For 30 minutes last Friday night, it turned into a timeline of terror. Kazinskaya and a friend had bought last-minute tickets to …

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Virginia governor vetoes bill that would have boosted minimum wage from $12 to $15 over two years, saying it wasn’t needed

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase. The development did not come as a surprise. While Youngkin had not explicitly threatened to veto either set of …

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Thames Water enters its end game

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shouting matches between utility companies and regulators are common in the UK. There is always brinkmanship before regulators rubber-stamp multiyear business plans as investors try to juice their returns. Thames …

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Russian Military Jet Crashes Into Sea Off Crimea, Says Governor

Footage on social media showed a plane in flames falling out of the sky. (Representational) A Russian military plane crashed Thursday into the sea off Ukraine’s annexed Crimean peninsula, the Moscow-installed governor of the city of Sevastopol said. “A military plane has fallen into the sea,” Mikhail Razvozhayev said in …

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