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  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Regeneron claims Covid antibody drugs might have saved Colin Powell

    Suggestion ex-secretary of state would have benefited from treatment dismissed as ‘highly speculative’

  • Monday, 18 October, 2021
    Obituary
    Colin Powell, US general and statesman, 1937-2021

    Military leader and first black secretary of state regretted UN speech on Iraq weapons intelligence

  • Monday, 18 October, 2021
    Former US secretary of state Colin Powell dies of Covid complications

    Former chair of joint chiefs of staff passes away aged 84

  • Friday, 13 January, 2017
    US politics & policy
    Clash of views in Trump cabinet sets stage for policy confusion

    Differing stances on foreign policy and trade will threaten formation of strategy

  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2016
    US presidential election
    Colin Powell’s leaked emails blast Trump and Clinton

    Republican candidate a ‘national disgrace’ and Democratic rival ‘greedy’, say emails to former aides

  • Wednesday, 21 October, 2015
    US presidential election
    John Brennan suggested Colin Powell as presidential envoy to Iran

    CIA head pushed for engagement before taking role at spy agency, according to WikiLeaks

  • Tuesday, 30 December, 2014
    The FT ViewUS downturn
    Bid farewell to America’s ‘worst Congress ever’

    US Republicans have a chance to show that gridlock is not permanent

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2013
    World
    Rule changes set stiff agenda

    Compliance implies benefits and costs

  • Monday, 20 May, 2013
    Russian politics
    Political backlash blamed for woes at Russia’s ‘Silicon Valley’
  • Monday, 14 January, 2013
    NotebookJurek Martin
    Unleash the funding dogs of political war

    For Obama, aligning disparate US political actors is like herding cats

  • Sunday, 13 January, 2013
    US politics & policy
    US resistance grows to Hagel nomination
  • Friday, 21 December, 2012
    beyondbricsMarkets
    Mexico: the ‘unwinnable’ war
  • Wednesday, 7 November, 2012
    US politics & policy
    Foreign policy team faces shake-up
  • Thursday, 1 November, 2012
    US politics & policy
    Obama gets lift from Republican backers

    Bloomberg follows Powell and Christie in showing support

  • Thursday, 1 November, 2012
    Climate change
    Bloomberg backs Obama over climate change
  • Friday, 26 October, 2012
    US politics & policy
    Romney backer sparks race controversy
  • Friday, 26 October, 2012
    The World blogWorld
    US Election round-up Friday October 26
  • Thursday, 25 October, 2012
    US politics & policy
    Powell delivers Obama endorsement
  • Friday, 5 October, 2012
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The art of peace

    A taut and timely memoir from former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan

  • Wednesday, 7 March, 2012
    Personal & Household Goods
    Glamour partners: Ballet tie-up a positive step for diamond exchange

    Antwerp bourse is aiming to raise international profile, says Claire Adler

  • Friday, 4 November, 2011
    ReviewLife & Arts
    No Higher Honour

    Condoleezza Rice’s memoir of her years serving George W Bush as national security adviser and secretary of state

  • Friday, 7 October, 2011
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Cain surge defies sceptics in Republican race
  • Sunday, 4 September, 2011
    ReviewLife & Arts
    A cold-blooded tale of two conflicts

    In a dogged, dogmatic defence of the war on terror, Dick Cheney fails to quantify the cost of US policies under his watch

  • Friday, 8 July, 2011
    beyondbricsKatrina Manson
    South Sudan’s awkward guest
  • Friday, 11 February, 2011
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘Known and Unknown’
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