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Prospect of complete breakdown increases after tense Raab-Barnier meeting

CSU vote collapses to 36.2% while Greens surge to 18.1%, according to projections

Kingdom vows to use its economic muscle to counter Khashoggi backlash

As the European patent on AbbVie’s Humira expires, biosimilars are ready to target $20bn market

Political extremism is only one response to failing economic systems

Tech leaders at loggerheads over tax to help those sleeping on San Francisco streets

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Analysis Banks

Executives at US lender ‘hunker down’ after missing out on booming M&A market

Recognition of Ukrainian church’s split from Russia is proxy for wider independence battle

Brexit triggers 87 per cent drop in European nurses registering to work in UK

Tie-up combines two of the biggest providers of defence technology in the US

Finance minister’s move to end parallel system leads to dollar shortage and panic buying

Life & Arts

Has the street artist’s most audacious prank shredded the credibility of the art market?

Matthew Weiner’s eight-part series examines what it might feel like to have — or believe you have — imperial blood in your veins

At 71, the singer is part of rock and roll royalty, and she’s just made a raw and mesmerising new album

Europe News

Pact designed to underpin economic stability has often been honoured in the breach

Value of Italian bonds out on loan — a proxy for short selling — hits four-month high

New progressive party set to make debut on national and European stages

French far-right leader seizes on Macron’s falling ratings after her own year of adversity

Opinion

Highlights

Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance has sparked worldwide anger, accusations and boycott threats against Riyadh

The IPCC on 1.5C, a Nobel for climate economics, Iran evades sanctions, and oil faces ‘the red zone’

Why has the actress, model, masters student and chicken-keeper decided to run away with the circus?

Markets News

Will US third-quarter earnings improve sentiment and drive fund managers to buy the dip?

Culprits for the turbulence span algorithmic traders to the Fed’s interest rate rises

Arcane bond market language becomes talk of Italy as populist government battles Brussels

Technology

How to miss the point in 280 characters

The risk is of a digital-era version of the Iron Curtain between the US and China

Imaging technology can reveal cerebral damage in the world’s malnourished children

Life & Arts