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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Thursday, April 11th, and this... Good morning from the Newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Thursday, April 11th, and this is your FT news briefing.

EU leaders offer the UK a Brexit extension until the end of October,

with a review in June.

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And the Federal Reserve puts investors on notice,

with minutes from the U.S US Central Bank's March meeting saying

interest rates could move in either direction.

Then the FT's South Asia Bureau Chief Amy Kasmin tells us what's at stake in India's

general election that kicks off today.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

This is George Parker, the political editor of the Financial Times, coming to you from Brussels.

The European Council meeting has just finished considering the subject of Brexit, which is occupying many minds across the continent at the moment of course and the

Councillors concluded by deciding to give Theresa May a reprieve on Brexit a delay on the A bit of a gift to the headline writers of course because it's Halloween day and that will be appearing in many of the front pages tomorrow morning.

A bit of a setback for Emmanuel Macron, the French president who was pushing for a much shorter extension of Article 50.

His point was that Britain needed to have the pressure applied to it to finally come to an agreement

in Parliament to get itself out of its Brexit and pass.

Nevertheless, majority of the EU member states decided it was more sensible to offer Theresa May

a longer extension to give a more time to sort this out. But what it really means of course in

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