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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Russia's missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective
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• Iran and its Arab neighbours are divided over a name
• Jiang Zemin oversaw a wave of economic change, but not much political reform
• KAL's cartoon
• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• After Credit Suisse's demise, attention turns to Deutsche Bank
• Rocket Internet's Oliver Samwer to earn €260mn dividend payout
• TechCrunch Disrupt's Security Stage highlights the risks of spyware, government surveillance
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• Robots learn to perform chores by watching YouTube
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• The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing
• Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets
• Turkey eyes reconciliation with a Syrian regime it tried to topple
• How long will the travel boom last?
• Despite an explosion, Elon Musk is closer to his new space age
• Jihadists in Congo linked are extending their reach in the region
• Missing Titanic Sub: What Could Have Gone Wrong?
• India leads a boom in orders for passenger jets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The view from the front line between Taiwan and China
• Business
• Development finance needs to be bolder
• Proposed legal reforms could be dire for Israel
• Fearing China, Australia rethinks its defence strategy
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• Bernard Haitink believed that genius should speak for itself
• Rightwing war on 'woke capitalism' partly driven by fossil fuel interests and allies
• Proving a photo is fake is one thing. Proving it isn't is another
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• Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat, is winning
• Apple's 10.2-inch iPad drops back to a record low of $250
• COP26 ends with a pact that is neither a triumph nor a trainwreck
• Republicans intensify their assault on city governments
• Investors brace for a painful crash into America's debt ceiling
• Why foreign dignitaries wear red when meeting Xi Jinping
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
• Why self-storage is turning into hot property
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• IOC expels International Boxing Association from Olympic movement
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• April Ashley campaigned for rights hardly considered before
• Catholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuse
• Brazil's new president may soon face another threat: his predecessor
• The Glasgow summit left a huge hole in the world's plans to curb climate change
• Commercial-property losses will add to banks' woes
• Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city
• U.S. Stocks Pull Back Tuesday as Market Rally Pauses
• Why bicycles are crucial to Congo's cross-border trade
• Oversight Board criticizes Meta for refusing to take down Brazilian pro-insurrection video
• India's G20 presidency will be a win for Narendra Modi
• Ukraine's gay soldiers fight Russia—and for their rights
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• More strikes and demonstrations against French pension reform
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• Who are Russia's supporters?
• Could the war in Ukraine go nuclear?
• Pixar Used AI to Stoke the Flames in 'Elemental'
• America's culture wars threaten its single market
• The rich world's housing crunch is far from over
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• How India is using digital technology to project power
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• Chris Whitty: UK should have focused more on stopping Covid-type pandemic
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• NTSB Holds East Palestine Train Derailment Hearings
• The strange tale of a prominent North Korean defector
• Indian stock market surges as foreign funds buy into national growth story
• Donald Trump is losing ground to Ron DeSantis ahead of 2024
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• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
• Trump's rivals vie for piece of evangelical 'love fest'
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• The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
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• The machine that runs Britain's state needs an overhaul
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• Stocks have shrugged off the banking turmoil. Haven't they?
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• San Francisco's "woke maths" experiment
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• Why Not Whitmer?
• There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
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• Mukesh Ambani returns to the spotlight
• China's influence in South-East Asia has grown. America's has waned
• Fording Rivers and Forging Bonds on the Oregon Trail
• Is the global investment boom turning to bust?
• US overtakes China as market for South Korean goods
• The rift in Singapore's first family turns even nastier
• KAL's cartoon
• How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race
• An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done
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• Why Britain is updating its laws on surrogacy and gamete donation
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• Bernie Sanders Opens Investigation Into Amazon's 'Uniquely Dangerous' Warehouses
• Britain's semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in
• Music Companies Sue Twitter Over Alleged Copyright Violations
• The 2024 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
• Switzerland's new megabank is bad news for Swiss bankers
• Criticizing LGBTQ+ Pride Merch Just Got More Complicated
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
• Family members backed the $500,000 bond that freed Rep. Santos from jail
• Shane Warne believed that cricket should always be fun
• Elderly populations mean more government spending
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China hopes Mazu, a sea goddess, can help it win over Taiwan
• English schoolchildren are still missing months of classes
• KAL's cartoon
• Review: Modern Barrel Co. Moba Smart Barrel
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a "soup" of language
• Israel's Netanyahu Touts Expanded Investment by Intel
• Russians have helped make Dubai's property market red hot—again
• Anne Saxelby was a champion of artisan farmers and their wares
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• After a bungled coup attempt, Peru's president falls
• Military and financial support to Ukraine hits a record high
• The novel ways old people try to find love in China
• The death of Silvio Berlusconi creates uncertainty for his party
• UK banks: interest rate benefits for banks drawing to an end
• Indian Dissidents Have Had It With America Praising Modi
• The best books of 2021
• SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack
• Should every schoolchild eat free?
• The Taliban are digging an enormous canal
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Politics
• China's ChatGPT Opportunists—and Grifters—Are Hard at Work
• A golden sandwich that demists your windscreen
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's data-security laws rattle Western business executives
• The Taliban go big on animal welfare
• Every setback is an opportunity for Ryanair
• Why South Africa is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit
• With Hollywood on strike, foreign shows enjoy the limelight
• Russia's army is learning on the battlefield
• Spanish renewable-energy development is waking from its siesta
• How an English miner's daughter rose to work in the White House
• Britain's economy may grow by more than expected, but inflation is stickier
• Switching to Electric Cars Could Prevent 89,000 Deaths in the U.S.
• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
• What the First Republic deal means for America's banks
• Reddit Gave Its Moderators Freedom—And Power
• Russia gas flows through Ukraine could stop next year, Kyiv says
• Obituary: Frenchy Cannoli, who treated hashish like fine wine
• Microsoft's Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI
• States With Abortion Bans Are Losing a Generation of Ob-Gyns
• Why have Russia's armed forces been so ineffective in Ukraine?
• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• How to Cool Down Fast in Summer Heat
• Swiss central bank calls for overhaul of banking regulations after Credit Suisse rescue
• Plaid unveils new collaboration network aimed at giving fintechs a way to share fraud intelligence
• Editing Roald Dahl for sensitivity was silly
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• Can British seaweed farms bloom?
• What is The Economist's word of the year for 2021?
• The world's oil-price benchmark is being radically reformed
• Looking for the African middle class? Head to the bus park
• Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
• Acidifying the air may protect against covid
• Inside the shared studio of Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
• Italy's new government needs to make deep economic reforms
• After 20 years of trauma, Iraq is struggling to recover
• How left-wing on economics is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
• How Campbeltown has responded to the boom in Scottish whisky
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Getting Off (With a Partner) Helps You Doze Off, Study Finds
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• Sam Bankman-Fried is charged with defrauding investors
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
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• Jean-Jacques Sempé was an unparalleled observer of the human condition
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• KAL's cartoon
• The Morning After: Popular subreddits welcomed adult content to protest Reddit changes
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• How, if at all, might Russia be punished for its war crimes in Ukraine?
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• The 2023 Audubon Photography Awards
• In conversation with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Indian firms are flocking to the United Arab Emirates
• The four women who shook up philosophy
• The 50 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now
• American religion is becoming less exceptional
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• The politics of Xi Jinping's covid retreat
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• Jair Bolsonaro's challenge to Brazil's election was rejected
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• South Korea has a plan to end its forced-labour feud with Japan
• How covid-19 spurred governments to snoop on sewage
• China's state capitalists celebrate their soaring shares
• You'll Have to Wait for Superman: Legacy Before You Get More Peacemaker
• In America, school test results are still lagging behind pre-covid levels
• Bahrain tightens grip on McLaren with purchase of Saudi stake
• Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their children
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A huge Norwegian phosphate rock find is a boon for Europe
• China's rulers play the law-and-order card, and lose
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• Turkey's Kurds are joining the coalition to oust Erdogan
• The resistible lure of the family business
• America's chance to become a clean-energy superpower
• Politics
• Disney will cut 7,000 jobs as it restructures its business
• Obituary: Gino Strada believed health care was a human right
• America's Supreme Court weighs religious accommodations in the workplace
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's deep-water fishing fleet is the world's most rapacious
• Vice Media to be acquired by buyers from Fortress Investment Group – report
• Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
• Self-Driving Cars: The Complete Guide
• Migration to Britain hits a record high
• Foreign airlines in Nigeria are frustrated by the blocking of their funds
• Britain's mortgage timebomb - podcast
• This Is the Worst Part of the AI Hype Cycle
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A sweeping campaign against corruption in Chinese football
• Sources and acknowledgments
• How a balloon burst Sino-American talks
• South Korea has America in its face and China breathing down its neck
• The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed
• Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape
• Chinese arms could revive Russia's failing war
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
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• Brian Kemp Does the Climate Policy Tap Dance
• A planned spaceport in Djibouti may give China a boost
• Reading the death certificate on Boris Johnson's political career
• Business
• Is China's recovery about to stall?
• El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is not paying off
• Why Tim Scott is such a long shot for the Republican nomination
• Anoint my caverns with oil
• Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms
• DARPA, lasers and an internet in orbit
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• Hope for Ending Gun Violence Is Not Enough--We Need Fury
• Israel's government is still in a bind
• When it comes to a war with Taiwan, many Chinese urge caution
• Romania's hot economy is attracting foreign workers
• What next for Sudan's most notorious rebel leader, known as Hemedti?
• If the world loves forests, it should put a price on their carbon
• Secret Invasion Uses AI for Its Opening Credits, and the Excuse Is Meaningless
• KAL's cartoon
• Why America and Europe fret about China turning inwards
• Why do Democrats keep helping Trump?
• KAL's cartoon
• What to make of China's military drills around Taiwan
• USAID is changing the way it tries to do good in the world
• Millions are travelling across China for lunar new year
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• Ukraine is counter-attacking in multiple directions, with mixed results
• America's banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars
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• Why the Story of an AI Drone Trying to Kill Its Operator Seems So True
• Bulgaria's fight with corruption brings its fifth election in two years
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• The battle to keep "Portrait of Omai" in Britain
• Questions surround a gun attack on Argentina's vice-president
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
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• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'If I didn't say something, nobody else was going to': Zinzi Minott on making art about the Windrush scandal
• 'Send Me Location:' Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Down to Fight Elon Musk in a Cage Match
• South-East Asia is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave
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• 'Midjourney Magazine' Is Here—and It's Soulless
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• Sudan's spiralling war, in maps
• Greece's prime minister wins an election, but lacks a majority
• China throws the book at two prominent human-rights lawyers
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• Why You Shouldn't Always Tell Your Bank How Much You Make
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• Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president, wants to smother the gig economy
• Wow, Turns Out People Still Want More Walking Dead
• Warren Buffett is shaking Japan's magic money tree
• China brokers an Iran-Saudi rapprochement
• Australia has faced down China's trade bans and emerged stronger
• The Dominion lawsuit showed the limits of Fox's influence over its audience
• New Drug for Cannabis Use Disorder Shows Promise in Early Trials in Humans
• How to measure how stress affects athletes' performance
• Chrome can soon convert PDFs into text it can read aloud
• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
• Ukrainian ingenuity is ushering in a new form of warfare at sea
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence
• Sky UK releases a motion-tracking webcam for TV watch parties
• Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
• California may punt on paying reparations to the descendants of slaves
• Kenya's population growth is slowing in cities and towns
• A generation after Germany reunited, deep divisions remain
• Rishi Sunak, a very Tory kind of technocrat
• Best MacBooks (2023): Which Model Should You Buy?
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is found guilty of corruption
• The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood
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• Narendra Modi is rewriting Indian history
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• The energy transition will be expensive
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• Tell us: how has the housing crisis affected your dating life or relationship?
• It's a Padam-ic! Kylie's sex-positive hit is brilliantly upending the mainstream
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• The 'Joan Is Awful' Episode of 'Black Mirror' Asks You to Please Click Here
• Italy is trying to deal with its demographic decline
• France's top general on lessons from the battlefield
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• A decades-old model of animal (and human) learning is under fire
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
• How America plans to break China's grip on African minerals
• Retirement has become much longer across the rich world
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Haiti came to be run by armed gangs – video
• DuckDuckGo's privacy-focused browser is now available for Windows
• FDA approves Owlet's baby-monitoring sock two years after halting sales
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• Indian investors pile in to women's cricket
• Adding up the fiscal drag from ageing, energy and defence
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• A hit film recalling an ancient poem fuels Chinese nationalist fervour
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• Powell Says Interest Rates Likely to Rise Further
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• Vaccines based on mRNA need to get out of the freezer
• What properties would Sam Zell invest in next?
• Australia and Canada are one economy—with one set of flaws
• Business
• What walking from Washington to New York reveals about America
• Half of Americans have faced 'extreme' weather in the last six weeks
• Fox News shows that not even Tucker Carlson is bigger than the network
• Ukraine's counter-offensive appears to have begun
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• How to Live Well, Love AI, and Party Like a 6-Year-Old
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• Why activist investors are going to have a busy year
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• Why economics does not understand business
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• Ann Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelics in therapy
• America avoids financial Armageddon but stays in fiscal hell
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• Why China's government might struggle to revive its economy
• Business
• The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
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• Where did woke ideas start to spread?
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• Russia tightens persecution of a crucial human-rights group
• KAL's cartoon
• A renewed push on Bakhmut fuels rumours of a Ukrainian counter-offensive
• Fixing Britain's national water supply will be a marathon
• Can downtown densification rescue Cleveland?
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• KAL's cartoon
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• KAL's cartoon
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• The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not yet
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