Concessions to the Japan Innovation Party

European governments have rallied behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and are rushing to secure a deal on the use of Russia’s frozen assets, a coalition deal in Japan paves the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country’s first female prime minister, and Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage on Monday. Plus, Marc Rowan, chief executive of Apollo Global Management, has said Europe is “at war with itself” over financial regulation. 

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Europeans rush to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s defence after tense Donald Trump meeting

Apollo’s Marc Rowan says ‘at war with itself’ over finance regulation

Amazon says cloud services recovering from widespread outage

Japan coalition deal paves way for Sanae Takaichi to become first female PM

Today’s FT News Briefing was produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, and Marc Filippino. Our show was mixed by Kent Militzer. Additional help from Michela Tindera, Gavin Kallmann and David da Silva. The FT’s acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. The show’s theme music is by Metaphor Music.

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