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    John Reed

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    John Reed is the Financial Times’s South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi and covering business, economies, politics and society in India, Pakistan, and the region.

    He joined the FT in 2000, working as a foreign correspondent and business reporter based in Bangkok, Jerusalem, London, Johannesburg, and Warsaw. John also contributed to the FT’s coverage of the war in Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, and the Israel-Hamas war of 2023. His work has won several awards, including from the New York Financial Writers' Association, the Society of Publishers in Asia, and a Gerald Loeb Award.

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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
    • 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
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Tesla Inc
      India considers slashing EV tariffs to lure Tesla

      Officials are in talks with Elon Musk’s carmaker to set up a plant in the country

      Tesla chief Elon Musk meets Indian prime minister Narendra Modi
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      News in-depthPakistan
      Pakistan’s expulsion order pushes uprooted Afghans into crisis under Taliban

      More than 200,000 people have been told to return to a country in grip of humanitarian crisis

      People and trucks with rocky mountains in the background
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      ‘People are really fearful’: suspicion stalks Israel’s mixed communities

      Palestinian-Israeli citizens claim they are being punished for their views on the Gaza war

      A montage of a silhouette of a woman on a phone and the logos of Facebook, X and Telegram over a background photo of smoke and debris over the Gaza Strip
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Hostage families’ message: ‘pay whatever price’ to bring them home

      Relatives relive their horrors, publicly and frequently, so country and world do not forget

      Relatives of hostages kidnaped and taken to the Gaza Strip hold a demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for the Israeli government to bring them back
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel ‘preparing ground invasion’ of Gaza, says Netanyahu

      PM gives no timing but vows to fight Hamas ‘above ground, underground, in Gaza and outside Gaza’

      Benjamin Netanyahu
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      UN agency in Gaza says it will run out of fuel within hours

      Israeli PM says war cabinet has agreed timing of ground incursion

      A woman carries an infant in a school playground converted by the UNRWA as a shelter
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      American troops at risk across Middle East amid rising tensions, US warns

      Washington sends more air defence systems to the region as Israel continues bombardment of Gaza

    • Sunday, 22 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Benjamin Netanyahu won’t say sorry

      Veteran prime minister has conspicuously avoided shouldering blame for miscalculations that led to October 7 assault

      Benjamin Netanyahu holding back Isaac Herzog while waiting for Joe Biden
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      ‘I have a feeling this is going to last’: Israelis evacuate the border with Lebanon

      Intensifying cross-border fighting with Hizbollah militant group prompts mass displacement in northern Israel

      Israeli soldiers walking between houses in the Israeli town of Metula, as seen from the Lebanese side of the border
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Biden warns Israel to avoid 9/11 ‘mistakes’

      US president says country should not be ‘consumed’ by rage and unveils deal for some aid to enter Gaza from Egypt

      US president Joe Biden during a meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Israel under pressure over hostages as families face Hamas ‘mind games’

      Video of captured woman underscores Jewish state’s dilemma as it prepares for Gaza ground offensive

      The mother of Mia Shem, near photographs of people kidnapped by Hamas militants, at a news conference in Tel Aviv
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      ‘I can’t just sit and do nothing’: Israeli society mobilises after Hamas attack

      Jewish Israelis pull together for war effort in days since devastating assault

      An Israeli military reservist helps residents of Ashkelon evacuate the city as he holds the remains of a rocket
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US warns Iran against escalating Israel-Hamas war into regional conflict

      Washington has privately communicated to Tehran, US national security adviser says

      Palestinian women and children react to an Israeli air strike in Gaza
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Residents flee Gaza City as Israel tells 1.1mn to leave

      PM Netanyahu in address says ‘this is only the beginning’ in war with Hamas

      Smoke billows in Gaza following Israeli air strikes
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      The Big Read
      Israel’s week of infamy: ‘We don’t yet know where it will end’

      How will the state emerge from the shock, trauma and anger at Hamas’s brutal attacks?

    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      News in-depthVisual investigation
      Seventeen hours of terror: how Hamas invaded one Israeli community

      The residents of Be’eri were left to fend for themselves as militants killed, kidnapped and roamed unchallenged

      Photos from surveillance video of Hamas’s attack on Be’eri
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US urges Israel to exercise restraint amid fears of regional war

      Secretary of state says ‘how Israel does this matters’ after meeting with PM Benjamin Netanyahu

      Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu give statements to the media
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      The human toll of a Hamas assault reveals itself in Kibbutz Be’eri

      Soldiers say 110 Israelis died in one of the last communities to be freed from Palestinian gunmen

      An aerial view of the damage caused by Hamas gunmen in Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel pounds Gaza and prepares for ground operation

      IDF say dozens of civilians, including children, ‘butchered’ at kibbutz

      Palestinians among the rubble of an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Wednesday
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Netanyahu’s coalition gives green light to Israel unity government talks

      Discussions on formation of war cabinet follow worst attack within country in its history

      Benjamin Netanyahu pictured in July
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Hamas kidnappings leave Israeli forces with painful hostage dilemma

      Abductions of dozens of civilians present Jewish state with risky options on Gaza retaliation or prisoner swap

      Hamas militants abduct an elderly woman from a kibbutz
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Israel imposes ‘complete siege’ on Gaza

      Israel’s central bank to sell $30bn of foreign reserves to support shekel

    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel imposes ‘complete siege’ on Gaza as Hamas threatens hostages

      Government calls up 300,000 reservists on third day of war

      Photographs from sites in Israel and Gaza
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