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    John Paul Rathbone

    Defence and Security correspondent

    John Paul Rathbone is the defence and security correspondent of the Financial Times. He was previously Latin America editor; Tokyo-based business and markets editor at Nikkei Asia, a sister publication that covers Asian business and politics; and deputy editor of the Lex column.

    Author of the 2010 New York Times best-seller “The Sugar King of Havana: the rise and fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s last tycoon”, John Paul joined the FT in 2008.

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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Indian politics & policy
      Alleged plot to assassinate Sikh separatist complicates US-India ties

      Concerns of New Delhi involvement in attempted killing on US soil come as Washington has been seeking closer relations

      A protester against Sikh separatism holds a banner depicting Gurpatwant Singh Pannun at a rally in New Delhi in September
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Military briefing: has Israel achieved its war aims in Gaza?

      Benjamin Netanyahu remains a long way from his objectives despite the deal to free some of the hostages taken by Hamas

      An Israeli soldier operates in the Gaza Strip
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Money laundering
      UK is a ‘leading enabler’ of central Asian kleptocracies, say MPs

      Failure to prosecute money laundering crimes ‘facilitates’ corrupt regimes

      View of City of London, in London, England
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
      How Israel’s spymasters misread Hamas

      Overconfident intelligence agencies missed multiple warnings before October 7 attacks in a ‘failure of imagination’

      A FT montage of a barbed wire fence on the screen of a laptop with a surveillance camera and satellite dish in the foreground
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
      The battle for Gaza City

      Ground invasion exposes Israeli troops to close combat in an urban environment against dug-in Hamas fighters

      A montage of an Israeli soldier gesturing while manning the machine gun turret atop an armoured personnel carrier and a map of Gaza
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Military briefing: How Hamas fights

      Faced with Israel’s tech superiority, the militant group has turned Gaza into a haven for guerrilla war

      Hamas fighters take part in a military parade
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
      Military briefing: Israel’s devastating bombing campaign in Gaza

      IDF seeks to take out Hamas’s leaders while keeping hostages alive and maintaining international support

      Smoke rises above buildings during an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip (left). People gather amid the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Gaza City (right)
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
      Military briefing: Battle for Mosul points to IDF’s ‘fiendish’ task in Gaza

      Israeli military likely to face houses rigged to explode, fighters wearing civilian clothes and weapons stored in mosques

      Gaza, left, Mosul 2017, right
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
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      The world’s best repair shops

      Mending a stiletto or fixing a stereo? Here’s where the FT find their experts

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    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      OutlookWar in Ukraine
      In the pursuit of small pleasures, Kyiv residents exercise resistance

      Vladimir Putin wants to trash the country, so the fact that daily life continues is a minor triumph

      Kyiv residents sit at tables outside a bar or cafe
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Israel prepares to invade Gaza

      Behind ExxonMobil’s contrarian $60bn oil bet

    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Middle East military briefing
      ‘Everything you can imagine and worse’ awaits Israeli army in Gaza

      Potential ground offensive to root out Hamas militants will test IDF’s urban warfare skills

      Israeli soldier stands between tanks at the Israel-Gaza border
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
      Military briefing: the groups that pose the deadliest threat to Israel

      Several militant organisations and non-state actors have targeted the Jewish state

      A montage showing militants from Hizbollah and the military wing of Hamas along with a Palestinian flag
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      Military briefing: the advance of Ukraine’s ‘mosquito navy’

      Despite an essentially shipless maritime force, Kyiv has pushed back Russia’s Black Sea fleet and hit its bases

      A satellite image shows smoke billowing from the HQ of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol after a missile strike in September
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Donald Trump
      Donald Trump says Russia dossier caused ‘distress’ in London lawsuit

      The former US president is suing Orbis Business Intelligence, co-founded by Christopher Steele, in the High Court

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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      News in-depthIndian politics & policy
      India’s foreign spy agency drawn out of the shadows by Canadian allegations

      R&AW has aided insurgencies in south Asia — but Sikh activist’s slaying in Vancouver would be first in a western country

      A sign outside the temple gate that refers to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and his desire for an independent ‘Khalistan’ state
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Jeremy Fleming
      Former GCHQ chief joins security investment group Gallos as chair

      Jeremy Fleming’s appointment a feather in the cap of fledgling investment company

      Jeremy Fleming
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Ukraine’s crucial Danube ports battle rising costs

      Exporters warn future grain production under threat from expense of avoiding Russia’s navy in Black Sea

      The Marine Terminal building damaged in the Russian drone attack on the port of Izmail situated on the Danube river
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      UK
      ECHR rules UK spy agencies violated privacy of Italian and US nationals

      Two men took their case to Strasbourg after British regulator refused to hear case because they were non-residents

      European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      FT SeriesThe Return of Big Government
      The ‘eye-watering’ cost of ending the peace dividend

      Defence ministers increasingly fear voters will not accept the high price of military deterrence

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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      News in-depthUK foreign policy
      Arrest of alleged spy raises questions around UK’s China policy

      Critics say London is too soft on Beijing as MPs ask whether their safety is at risk

      Montage of parliament building, a figure in silhouette, and a Chinese communist party logo
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Spies — Russia, China and the long intelligence war with the west

      Calder Walton’s engrossing history of a century of rival spookery offers lessons for the present

      A man in a suit arrives at a court building. Behind him a man wearing a hat holds a box of objects and papers
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russian rocket attack on market in eastern Ukraine kills 17

      Zelenskyy speaks out after strike in Kostyantynivka as US secretary of state Blinken pledges ‘unwavering’ support during surprise visit

      Ukrainian police at the site of the rocket attack in Kostyantynivka on Wednesday
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Ukraine doubles down on counteroffensive

      Didier Reynders to take over as EU competition chief

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