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    Roula Khalaf is Editor of the Financial Times. She was previously deputy editor from 2016 to 2020, overseeing a range of newsroom initiatives and award winning editorial projects and leading a global network of over 100 foreign correspondents.

    Before taking up the deputy editor role, Khalaf was the FT's foreign editor and oversaw the FT's operations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Before that, as Middle East editor, she launched a Middle East edition and led coverage of the Arab Spring. Khalaf was named foreign commentator of the year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards in 2016 and her series on Qatar won the Foreign Press Association’s Feature story of the year in 2013. She joined the FT in 1995 as North Africa correspondent and before that was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York.

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      GCHQ’s Jeremy Fleming: ‘Xi doesn’t want to see Putin humiliated’

      The outgoing cyber spy chief on Russia’s appetite for risk, China’s quest for tech supremacy — and the James Bond effect

    • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
      InterviewWar in Ukraine
      Poland calls for Nato security guarantees to postwar Ukraine

      President Andrzej Duda speaks to FT ahead of Biden visit to Warsaw to mark first anniversary of war

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    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
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      Russia’s ‘big’ Ukraine offensive advancing in ‘metres not kilometres’, says UK defence secretary

      Ben Wallace says Russia is suffering heavy losses from ‘meat grinder’ tactics that may be unsustainable

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      FT Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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      Zelenskyy vows Ukraine will withstand Russian attacks on power networks

      ‘We must return all lands,’ Ukrainian president tells the FT

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      Japan cannot survive without Russian oil, warns trading house chief

      Head of Itochu says there are ‘all kinds of ways’ Moscow can continue to export energy despite sanctions

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      Prime minister is reshaping nation’s security strategy to counter China, Russia and North Korea

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    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
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      Volodymyr Zelenskyy: ‘No one is humiliating Ukraine. They are killing us’

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