Also in today’s newsletter: Venezuela’s opposition leader returns from exile and Kim Jong Un visits Chinese border city

Nobel laureate’s arrival poses a challenge to the country’s Trump-backed interim government

Lack of buses and ferries adds to tense contest as rightwing challenger seeks to oust leftist president and bring country closer to Trump

Slowdown in China and cooling global stock markets are exacerbating a downturn for European sector

Chinese start-up XAG believes pilotless crop sprayers are the answer to a dwindling workforce and rising temperatures

Beijing is concerned that Pyongyang and Moscow are forging a stronger relationship, say analysts

Power broker behind kingdom’s flagship investment conference has weathered scandal and setbacks. Now he must contend with war and spending cuts

A conservative identity with heavy American influence has developed in Brazilian politics over the past decade

Investors are questioning whether appeal of homegrown Chinese luxury is a durable shift or a shortlived trend

An American lawyer, a banker and a former spy hatched a plan to prevent nuclear Armageddon. They just needed to tell the Russian president

Novelist Susan Elderkin on buying a fifth share in a boat — and the new life it opened up sailing around Greece’s Ionian Islands

Former CEO of Polar Train LNG tells FT that energy giant Novatek financed and held reins of strategic Alaska project without Washington’s approval

Central committee meeting to be closely watched ahead of party congress next year and leader’s expected fourth term

Movement that began as an online satirical movement but has become a thorn in the side of the prime minister

Vienna steps up crackdown on Moscow’s spies after years of leniency that frustrated Kyiv and other European capitals

Green light comes ahead of expected meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping next month

Swedish carmaker to cut another 2,500 jobs and warns that the market ‘has not reached the bottom’

Also in this newsletter: How to defend Europe’s position in quantum technology

Javier Milei’s sweeping free-market reforms have proved painful and the mood in Argentina is growing gloomy. With presidential elections next year, can the political outsider secure enough time to complete his transformation of the chronically troubled economy?

The belief that books are more than just inanimate objects is explored in a new memoir by Brazilian publisher Luiz Schwarcz — but it’s an idea that has ancient roots