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• The jury is still out on Ukraine's big push south
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• America's state lawmakers are passing ineffective anti-porn laws
• Elon Musk's X Rebrand Cues Complications---and Porn Jokes
• The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all | Nesrine Malik
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
• Why Austria Is Struggling to Break Away From Russian Gas
• The fight over working from home goes global
• Business leaders fear that South Africa risks becoming a failed state
• The world's religions face a post-pandemic reckoning
• Communist Party members must study Xi Jinping's thinking
• Ukraine's top guns need new jets to win the war
• How much of a concern are China's overseas police stations?
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• Americans are moving to places besieged by extreme heat
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• Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to try to stop the Vietnam war
• Obituary: A.Q. Khan was the world's biggest nuclear proliferator
• 'People are like, Wow!': the man trying to make condoms sexy – podcast
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• Four charts that highlight this summer's freakish temperatures
• Can Australia break China's monopoly on critical minerals?
• Why people struggle to understand climate risk
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• The dollar's dip will not become a sustained decline
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Ron DeSantis's lurch in Florida hurts his presidential chances
• Weak, small and reckless: how Ron DeSantis, Republican Napoleon, met his Waterloo
• Everything Samsung Announced at Galaxy Unpacked (July 2023): Galaxy Z Flip5, Fold5, Watch6, Tab S9 Series
• Britain's Conservative Party takes a local-election bruising
• The White House Already Knows How to Make AI Safer
• Are cities in Asia becoming better places to live?
• If Venezuela's elections were fair, this would be the front-runner
• Sakamoto Ryuichi heard how the world sounds—and changed it
• Latin America is set to become a major oil producer this decade
• Who is keeping coal alive?
• Western firms are becoming interested in a Soviet medicine
• Wild Donkeys Are on the Vanguard of Ukraine's Ecological Recovery
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• US-German Bond Yield Spread Rewidening Seen Temporary
• African countries are fed up with being marginalised in global institutions
• How China's police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
• A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever
• Israel's Tech Companies Are Fighting Netanyahu—or Leaving the Startup Nation
• PwC has disgraced itself down under
• The Economist's UK election poll tracker
• Montana, climate-change pioneer
• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• A new wave of mass migration has begun
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• As Lula takes over, Brazil's economic prospects are looking up
• Environments can affect language—just not how you think
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• Ideas for finding ET are getting more inventive
• Would Labour turn to the left in office?
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• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• Aaron Beck turned the world of psychiatry upside down
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
• The ticking bomb under Canada's constitution
• Swimmers avoiding the water over fears of raw sewage on UK beaches
• The Philippines's once-proud Maoist insurgents are out of ammo
• Vladimir Putin has rallied the West
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• KAL's cartoon
• Fiddling with Egypt's clocks
• America Is Drowning in Packages
• Japan is nostalgic for a past that was in part worse than its present
• America avoids financial Armageddon but stays in fiscal hell
• New drugs may protect girls having sex with older men from HIV
• Ticks Are Giving Tons of Americans an Allergy to Red Meat
• The death of Silvio Berlusconi creates uncertainty for his party
• After a bungled coup attempt, Peru's president falls
• Folding Phones Are Hot, But Really Only in Korea
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
• The push to bring insulin prices down in America
• Kim Jong Un has no desire to let his country rejoin the world
• Gina Lollobrigida's ambition was her strength and her weakness
• German bosses are depressed
• The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation
• A step towards a contraceptive pill for men?
• Wild Donkeys Are on the Vanguard of Ukraine's Ecological Recovery
• Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
• Labour's green industrial policy will not cure Britain's economic ills
• The world's most, and least, democratic countries in 2022
• China's Economy Stutters Forward as Growth Concerns Linger
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Ukraine gets its F-16s
• 4 dead and 2 injured in separate aircraft accidents in Wisconsin, authorities say
• In Asia data flows are part of a new great game
• India's deadly heatwaves are getting even hotter
• A worm that survived 46,000 years in permafrost wows scientists
• Tensions will linger over a Chinese balloon downed by America
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• The Taliban have launched an impressive new war on drugs
• Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood
• A cartography of human histology is in the making
• The PGA agrees to team up with its golfing arch-enemy
• A High-Water Year for River Rafting
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• Australia has faced down China's trade bans and emerged stronger
• KAL's cartoon
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• Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
• El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is not paying off
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Studying broken chromosomes can illuminate neuroscience
• India, an aspiring digital superpower, keeps shutting down the internet
• Smoke blackens the air in America's north-east
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• Are greedy corporations causing inflation?
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
• Bangladesh's economic miracle is in jeopardy
• Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
• Emmanuel Macron hopes to reinvent himself in 100 days
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• A film about Argentina's history sheds light on its politics today
• Better camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors
• Can we trust automakers to build an EV charging network that rivals Tesla's Supercharger?
• Why Scientists Are Clashing Over the Atlantic's Critical Currents
• Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
• What is The Economist's word of the year for 2021?
• ABBA return—and pretend no time has passed—with "Voyage"
• Business
• Home insurers are insuring less and charging more as they try to claw their way back to profitability after losing money in five of the past six years, analysts and insurance agents say.
• How the U.S. Economy Is Sticking the Soft Landing
• A palatial museum of Edvard Munch's art opens in Oslo
• Sooner or later, America's financial system could seize up
• Thousands march in Liverpool as city hosts Kyiv Pride
• What shipwrecked insects reveal about life at sea in the 17th century
• Argentina could help the world by becoming a big lithium exporter
• After 12 years of blood, Assad's Syria rejoins the Arab League
• Moving towards a multipolar world need not be a bad thing
• Hot rocks: German cities dig deep for green energy
• A short history of Hollywood's poison-pen letters to itself
• How Get the Most out of Your Graphics Card
• Secret Invasion Director Ali Selim Won't Read the Bad Reviews
• The ocean is as important to the climate as the atmosphere
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• What to make of China's military drills around Taiwan
• Saotome Katsumoto insisted that Japan should not forget
• Alexander Lukashenko is the clearest beneficiary of Wagner's mutiny
• This week in food tech: New fund shows food investments are still simmering
• Swimming's ruling on transgender women continues a trend
• A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
• AMLO's austerity has hurt Mexico
• The Real Reason Steph Curry Is So Damn Good
• Why commodity-trading scandals are multiplying
• ScrapPY - A Python Utility For Scraping Manuals, Documents, And Other Sensitive PDFs To Generate Wordlists That Can Be Utilized By Offensive Security Tools
• How Silicon Valley is helping the Pentagon in the AI arms race
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• How a Microbial Evolutionary Accident Changed Earth's Atmosphere
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• Meta's Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race
• The 26 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now
• China's Breach of Microsoft Cloud Email May Expose Deeper Problems
• Why I could not tell my story of domestic abuse in my book – or put my name to this piece | Anonymous
• Why Lebanon's drivers can't be legal
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey's president
• WhatsApp adds Telegram-style video messages
• This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close
• Is America's inflationary fever breaking?
• Seabed watchdog accuses miner of ignoring procedures after spill
• The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
• Sean Baker's films bring sex work into the light
• How digital gaming spreads far and wide
• Soaring temperatures and food prices threaten violent unrest
• PPLcontrol - Controlling Windows PP(L)s
• Perhaps What I Fear Does Not Exist review – an intimate document of family tragedy
• Ron Galella, the original paparazzo, died on April 30th, aged 91
• Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram
• Why Spain's successful prime minister might lose his job
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• Meet the world's most flirtatious sovereign-wealth fund
• The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow
• A new TB vaccine could save 8.5m lives over the next quarter of a century
• A New York jury will be asked if Donald Trump is a rapist
• Uber's Grand Plan to Go All-Electric in London Ran Into Gridlock
• July 2023 Is Hottest Month Ever Recorded on Earth
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Talk to Me's Directors on Their Genuinely Terrifying Horror Debut
• Twitter Users Vote Down a Note Correcting Elon's Bogus Vaccine Tweet
• Au revoir Provence, bonjour Sussex: how art and wine are reviving the quintessentially English county
• Exxon, Chevron Remain Money Gushers
• X Isn't a Super App. It's Just Twitter
• I Gazed Into Worldcoin's Orb and Saw a Boring Dystopia Staring Back
• Erdogan's empire
• Britain's new political sorcerer: the Reform Fairy
• Why are politics in West Bengal so violent?
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• Data on air bases suggest a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may not be imminent
• This week's covers
• Britain's services exports are booming despite Brexit. Why?
• Sports-Focused Private-Equity Firm to Invest in PMY Group
• Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
• Walmart Pays $1.4 Billion to Boost Flipkart Stake
• Lula's foreign-policy ambitions will be tempered by circumstances
• How the war split the mafia
• Another comeback for China's street merchants
• Can 3D-printed tiger teeth help save our rarest animals from extinction?
• The Xbox Series X is $50 off at Dell
• Muddled policies are harming British universities
• A spat over farming bodes ill for Ukraine's future European prospects
• The life and career of Sinéad O'Connor: 'I was really a protest singer' - video obituary
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be Brazil's next president
• Chief executives cannot shut up about AI
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
• Demi Vollering sails through time trial to win Tour de France Femmes
• As NATO's leaders gather in Vilnius, Ukraine will dominate everything
• Homeless Camps Are Being Cleared in California. What Happens Next?
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Tesla and other carmakers can learn from Ford
• Nigeria's new president acts fast
• China's new Great Wall
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• Why These Surfers Want to Restore a Rainforest
• Erotic statues in Peru are challenging taboos
• Why are corporate retreats so extravagant?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Fear of China is pushing India and Japan into each other's arms
• Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
• Vasectomies rose by 29% in the three months after the end of Roe
• The battle to control Mexican telecoms
• Meta Sees Ad Business Rebound but Warns of Higher Spending in Metaverse
• Brazil's next president will face a big, tricky in-tray
• Polaris - Validation Of Best Practices In Your Kubernetes Clusters
• Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down
• The Wagner mutiny has left Putin dangerously exposed
• The hard-right Vox could be in Spain's next government
• Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat, is winning
• Walmart Pays $1.4 Billion to Boost Flipkart Stake
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• Singapore is the world leader in selling cultivated meat
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
• Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing
• A post-Erdogan Turkey would only partly change its foreign policy
• Lore Olympus Creator Rachel Smythe on the Big Wedding—and More
• The Most Surprising Discoveries in Physics
• Is China's recovery about to stall?
• China's Communist Party is tightening its grip in businesses
• An anatomy of hard times in the city
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Costly climate rules are turning Germans away from the Greens
• First Republic Bank is on the edge of a precipice
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• Generative artificial intelligence on our "Babbage" podcast
• The Supreme Court declines to upend American election law
• NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
• Pakistan's leader vows to punish attackers after bomb attack
• What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
• Financial sanctions may not deter China from invading Taiwan
• After years of talks, indebted Arab states and the IMF are at an impasse
• Trump's Legal Turmoil Just Keeps Getting Worse
• LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
• Mexico could elect its first female president next year
• Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro's influence
• Nicki Minaj will be a playable character in Call of Duty
• Twenty years ago, Africa's women's treaty set a path to equality. We must be ready for the next steps
• This week's covers
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is making mixed progress
• Britain needs to embrace road pricing
• Israel's Avalanche
• A federal judge temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing portions of a law challenged by a coalition of plaintiffs that would restrict what books can be made available to children.
• Drone footage shows aftermath of wildfires on 2,500-year-old Sicilian temple – video
• China's guarding of genetic data is a drag on scientific research
• How India is using digital technology to project power
• Thailand's pro-democracy parties trounce the military establishment
• All Soda Is Lemon-Lime Soda
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• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• What MBS wants from Joe Biden
• The Best Personal Safety Devices, Apps, and Wearables (2023)
• How I survived a 'sex-ed shitstorm' – video
• Pet-sitting is popular – except when you have six hens, an early-rising dog and a sex-pest tortoise | Emma Beddington
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Walmart paid $1.4 billion to buy the remaining shares of Flipkart owned by Tiger Global, further cementing its control of the Indian e-commerce giant.
• An SUV strikes 6 migrant workers in Walmart parking lot in North Carolina
• F.W. de Klerk had to abandon what his ancestors had believed in
• Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms
• What is 5G? The Complete Guide to When, Why, and How
• What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth
• Peru has an incompetent president and a discredited Congress
• Australia and Canada are one economy—with one set of flaws
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Botswana, an African success story, looks ever less exceptional
• Are young children in Britain getting smaller?
• China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions
• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• An enormous—and unexpected—lump of granite has been found on the Moon
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• Instant payments finally reach America with FedNow
• 46,000-Year-Old Worm Possibly Revived from Siberian Permafrost
• Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?
• Regime change
• Regulation could disrupt the booming "kidfluencer" business
• Lush paid managers £5m in bonuses after taking £5m in state support
• Final day will define era of Bazball against Australia's Test orthodoxy | Barney Ronay
• The dark and bright sides of power
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's cover
• How China trains its journalists to report "correctly"
• Obituary: George Holliday fortuitously filmed the beating of Rodney King
• The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom
• Streaming services are helping Arab producers liven up television
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Binyamin Netanyahu is exploiting Israel's divisions
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• Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
• If enough people think you're a bad boss, then you are
• Hollywood's Strikes Will Disrupt Podcasts, Games, and TikTok Too
• China's foreign minister goes missing
• Britain's semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
• Nearly all Louisiana's death-row inmates have filed for clemency
• How to escape China's property crisis
• For Giorgia Meloni, supporting Ukraine has some useful benefits
• Surging stockmarkets are powered by artificial intelligence
• Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway
• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• African governments say credit-rating agencies are biased against them
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Taylor Swift's Seattle Tour Stop Clocks in on Seismometers
• Tor's shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it
• It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track
• Investment flows poised for historic shift after 'giant leap' by BoJ
• How, if at all, might Russia be punished for its war crimes in Ukraine?
• Britain's tough asylum plans are held up in court and by the Lords
• Microsoft Faces European Probe Over Bundling of Teams Software
• The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World
• The best films of 2021
• India's G20 presidency will be a win for Narendra Modi
• Dervla Murphy let nothing stand in the way of adventure
• Hollywood's fight is your fight
• 'We have hope for some breakthroughs': can we change the way we treat schizophrenia?
• Best Fast 3D Printers of 2023 - CNET
• The big picture: a luminous Sinéad O'Connor in one of her early shoots
• This week's covers
• The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
• How a balloon burst Sino-American talks
• London's latest effort to clear bad air is contested but necessary
• How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine?
• Firms search for greener supplies of graphite for EV batteries
• Russia's missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective
• Big Beer Is Not So Big Anymore
• An abortion battle causes mayhem in America's military ranks
• A farewell to small cars, the industrial icons that put Europe on wheels
• Spain stalemate drags on as Pedro Sánchez's socialist party loses crucial seat
• Tree-felling is at the centre of disputes across Britain
• Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
• Kenya's population growth is slowing in cities and towns
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• Should every schoolchild eat free?
• Retirement has become much longer across the rich world
• How Taiwan is shaped by its history and identity
• 66 Best Star Wars Gifts for 2023: Top Picks From the Biggest Nerds in the Galaxy - CNET
• The bad bind bedevilling Mike Pence and Chris Christie
• Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
• The Generative AI Battle Has a Fundamental Flaw
• Economists and investors should pay less attention to consumers
• Chinese arms could revive Russia's failing war
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Indian firms are flocking to the United Arab Emirates
• NASA is launching its own streaming service later this year
• Why Chinese carmakers are eyeing Thailand
• China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
• NATO did not give Volodymyr Zelensky everything he wanted
• Bob Dole believed in hard work, not words
• How to predict record-shattering weather events
• Chicago's new mayor has one of the trickiest jobs in politics
• How covid-19 spurred governments to snoop on sewage
• Quantifying the rise of America's far right
• The Viruses That Could Cure Cancer (or Wipe Out Humanity)
• The Baltic states fear that NATO is being complacent
• The 12 Best Games on Xbox Game Pass (August 2023)
• Is the worst now over for America's banks?
• I was a terrorist. Now I run a kindergarten – video
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• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
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• Apple's Vision Pro is a technical marvel. Will anyone buy it?
• Latin America is under authoritarian threat
• NYPD Body Cam Data Shows the Scale of Violence Against Protesters
• Evidence is growing that playing contact sports can lead to long-term brain injuries
• Massachusetts is not the gun-control beacon it once was
• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
• After half a century, there is a commercial market for Moon missions
• Lego, the world's top toymaker, focuses on China
• What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
• Military and financial support to Ukraine hits a record high
• Hollywood's writers go on strike
• Wage-price spirals are far scarier in theory than in practice
• Charles McGee faced adversity at home as much as abroad
• Meta gets whacked with a €1.2bn penalty
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• A Chinese reality-TV show about farming doubles as propaganda
• 'Millennium Falcon' Comet Sprouts Icy Wings as It Loops around the Sun
• The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed
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• The Taliban go big on animal welfare
• Scientists Tickle Rats and Discover Brain's 'Play Spot'
• Seth Rogen Thinks Fear Has Kept Him from Marvel, DC Collabs
• Fears about the reactors at Zaporizhia continue to mount
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's rulers play the law-and-order card, and lose
• What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• West African leaders said they would consider a military intervention to oust coup plotters in Niger and restore democratic rule in a country they worry could become Russia's newest security partner in the region.
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• Looking for Eileen: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
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• Frank Skinner: 'I've always operated near the line. If it moves, I move with it'
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• Fan fiction writers rally fandoms against KOSA, the bill purporting to protect kids online
• Russia's brutal mercenaries probably won't matter much in Ukraine
• America accuses South Africa of sending arms to Russia
• The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter
• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• Europe will need to fundamentally reset its fiscal policies
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• Donald Trump is in his most serious legal trouble yet
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• Why Roger Ebert Wanted You to Go to the Movies
• Chinese bubble tea chains go viral in South-East Asia
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• Weak Chinese factory activity puts pressure on Beijing to support economy
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• Ford expects to reach its EV production goal a year later than planned
• American exceptionalism exists, but other countries also have problems
• NASA's Voyager 2 Is Experiencing an Unplanned 'Communications Pause'
• How Trump Could Wreck Things for Republicans in 2024
• Pablo Milanés, a great musician and a critic of Cuba's regime, has died
• Just how good can China get at generative AI?
• American policing has changed since George Floyd's murder
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• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Dogs Die From Heat-Related Injuries on Their Way to Police Training
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Nigel Farage, NatWest and a political storm
• African leaders leave Russia summit without grain deal or path to peace in Ukraine
• To survive, Britain's NHS must stop fixating on hospital care
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• How to make it big in Xi Jinping's China
• Meta's Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
• America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies
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• A spat in Brussels pits an open vision of Europe against an insular one
• China's local-debt crisis is about to get nasty
• More Battlefield AI Will Make the Fog of War More Deadly
• The Palestinians need new leaders
• 'A Trojan horse'? Taiwanese islands weigh plan for 'peace bridge' to China
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• How Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs are changing Poland
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• South Korea's government and business are over-close
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• After 20 years of trauma, Iraq is struggling to recover
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• What does China's reopening mean for Latin America?
• Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
• Britain leads the world in online gambling
• The 61 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now
• The Trombonist Hillary Simms Is Breaking Barriers
• Desmond Tutu believed that truth was the best weapon
• The world's most, and least, affordable cities are in Asia
• British voters want more immigrants but less immigration
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• February's earthquakes have damaged the Middle East's dams
• Altice fraud arrests throw spotlight on Drahi's elusive right-hand man
• China's economy is on course for a "double dip"
• Sir Tony Blair mesmerises the Labour Party, again
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• Why the EU will not seize Russian state assets to rebuild Ukraine
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• Italy seeking to leave 'atrocious' China Belt and Road plan without harming ties – minister
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• China hits back against Western sanctions
• Europeans: are you being affected by high temperatures?
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• Why the death of Ukraine's grain deal is not moving wheat markets
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• France's foreign-policy revolution
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• Is mining set for a new wave of mega-mergers?
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• Germany's new strategy for dealings with China
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• Britain crowns Charles III its new king
• Why are more British adults still living with their parents?
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• Ukraine's missile cemetery
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• This week's covers
• 5 Ways ChatGPT Can Improve, Not Replace, Your Writing
• Southern Baptists are arguing about the extent of male authority
• Why right-wing Europeans are flocking to an English thinker
• John Hare devoted his life to saving the Gobi's wild camels
• Researchers find a way to make VR headsets more realistic
• How ChatGPT could help teachers and lower the cost of college
• Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
• Why investors can't agree on the financial outlook
• France moved quickly to evacuate civilians from Sudan
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• Mario Terán was the man sent to kill Che Guevara
• Hong Kong puts a price on the heads of democracy activists
• Renard rescues France, Jamaica set up Brazil battle – Women's Football Weekly
• Mantra - A Tool Used To Hunt Down API Key Leaks In JS Files And Pages
• An Abandoned Arctic Military Base Just Spilled a Scientific Secret
• KAL's cartoon
• Are Brazil's pollsters right about the presidential election?
• People of different opinions process political data differently
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
• Milan Kundera believed that truth lay in endless questioning
• Greece's prime minister wins an election, but lacks a majority
• Your employer is (probably) unprepared for artificial intelligence
• Spanish renewable-energy development is waking from its siesta
• The financial system is slipping into state control
• Myanmar's conflict is dividing South-East Asia
• The fun and the fury of a rattlesnake derby
• Transcript: An interview with Sir Keir Starmer
• Chinese propaganda is surprisingly effective abroad
• China's message to the global south
• As living memories of the Korean War fade, its consequences become clearer
• Wi-Fi signals could prove useful for spies
• Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat
• How to win the battle against inflation
• Life under the rule of the Taliban 2.0
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• On defence, America and India edge closer together
• Business
• What America's bike-share schemes tell you about venture capital
• More Battlefield AI Will Make the Fog of War More Deadly
• NASA Launches Its Own Streaming Platform
• Fukushima's Radioactive Water Is Going to Be Pumped Into the Ocean
• Renovation required
• The strange success of the Tories' schools policy
• The scandal at the Confederation of British Industry may be terminal
• How the Human Genome Project revolutionised biology
• China's alleged theft of a pineapple cultivar has Taiwan livid
• At a Comic-Con Without Hollywood, Fans Show Their Allegiances
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity