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• Bob Menendez is found guilty of corruption
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• Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
• Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
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• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukraine launches Moscow drone attack as Kursk offensive continues
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• Kaja Kallas, the plain-talking Estonian tipped to be the EU's top diplomat
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• How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
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• Emmanuel Macron faces heavy losses after a short campaign
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• China mulls a bold test of taxation without representation
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• NATO is drafting new plans to defend Europe
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• Labour's victory is good for Britain's union of four countries
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• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
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• How Ecuador became Latin America's deadliest country
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• Ford Steps Back From EVs—and Says Hybrids Are the Future
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• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
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• The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
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• The Bay of Bengal should be an economic superpower
• Why India's elite loves Narendra Modi
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• KAL's cartoon
• A Russian missile hits a children's hospital in central Kyiv
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• Dengue fever is surging in Latin America
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• China's high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
• A new book celebrates Annie Leibovitz's fashion photography
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• AMD Buys AI Equipment Maker for Nearly $5 Billion, Escalating Battle With Nvidia
• Will Sir Keir Starmer have a mandate to change Britain?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
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• Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald's and KFC
• The attack on Donald Trump unleashes a flood of misinformation
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• The 30 Best Movies on Hulu This Week (July 2024)
• How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China
• Dr Ruth aimed to shake America out of its puritan ways
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• McDonald's to Invest $1.30 Billion in U.K., Ireland Over Next 4 Years
• "Homeland economics" will make the world poorer
• A shock election result in India humbles Narendra Modi
• Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
• New Satellite Will Track Methane Super Emitters
• Pakistan businesses reeling from slow internet blame testing for firewall
• How bosses should play politics: the cautionary tale of Elon Musk
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• Meet a leading Trump vice-presidential contender
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The U.S. Has Its First Plan for Plastic Pollution. This Is What's in It
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Some Germans think the hostage exchange with Russia was a dirty deal
• ExxonMobil rediscovers its swagger
• Which city is the cheapest in the world?
• Alaska Air, Hawaiian Airlines Clear Key Antitrust Hurdle
• Casinos are booming in South-East Asia
• Humiliated by Azerbaijan, Armenia tacks towards the West
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• A court says Google is a monopolist. Now what?
• Midwestern guys: Vance and Walz's opposing views of being from the US heartland
• Japanese Megabank SMFG Got Thrown Out With the Bath Water
• Gulf governments are changing, but not how they talk to citizens
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• A second human case of bird flu in America is raising alarm
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• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
• Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need
• The think-tank shaping Britain's new government
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The 16 Best Labor Day Sleep Deals of 2024: Bedding, Bases, Sleep Tech and More
• Anthropic's Claude surpasses $1M in mobile app revenue
• Ukraine surprises with a high-stakes raid into Russia
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• An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done
• America remains Asia's military-exercise partner of choice
• Pål Enger never quite knew why he had to steal "The Scream"
• How Russian Trolls Are Trying to Go Viral on X
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• A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
• Remembering the Normandy landings
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• Exit polls point to a crushing victory for Narendra Modi
• The Best Hearing Aids of 2024, Reviewed by Experts
• Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico's elections loom
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• Disney named board member James Gorman to lead a committee tasked with finding Chief Executive Bob Iger's successor.
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• This Mpox Outbreak Isn't Like the Last One
• America is educating a nation of investors
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• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• How Camo Hats Became an Instant Meme
• The Vacuum of Space Will Decay Sooner Than Expected
• Why the 2024 Chicago convention is not the 1968 convention
• How Ukraine's new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
• Ten charts compare Joe Biden's record with Donald Trump's
• Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
• The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space
• What is screen time doing to children?
• Thailand's top court tramples over the country's democracy
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
• A war correspondent's intimate portrait of an embattled minority
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• Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
• For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• The revolt against Binyamin Netanyahu
• How to Plan for Retirement if You're Behind on Saving in Middle Age
• This week's covers
• A strange snafu and a cross-ideological coalition at America's Supreme Court
• These are the most expensive cities in North America
• Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico's embassy
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• The 25 best Nintendo Switch games in 2024
• AMD explains its AI PC strategy
• The Australian Breaker Who Broke the Internet
• What The Economist thought about solar power
• How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
• Could there be a US-Mexico trade war?
• China unites America and Europe in alarm
• All eyes on America's 'blue wall' as Harris scrambles to woo key voters
• How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
• Alibaba, Tencent Cast Wide Net for AI Upstarts
• A new play stages excerpts from the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry
• As seas rise, the relocation of Caribbean islanders has begun
• KAL's cartoon
• She's the New Face of Climate Activism—and She's Carrying a Pickax
• NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
• After Nayib Bukele's crushing, unconstitutional victory, what next?
• Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
• Love story: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour at Wembley – photo essay
• How to Watch Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg at the Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony
• Flush With Cash, Tether Has Got Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in Its Crosshairs
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• Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
• People Are Overdosing on Semaglutide Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy
• The West Coast's Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico
• The Walking Dead: Dead City review – this hugely fun spin-off rattles along like a disreputable B-movie
• The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
• Latin America's new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
• What Is Gemini Live and How Do You Use It?
• A riot in Southport shows how the British far right is changing
• Why 2024 could become the hottest year on record
• Geofence Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional—but That's Not the End of It
• How not to name a new car
• YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
• A short history of Russia and Ukraine
• The 42 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (August 2024)
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Lula's gaffes are dulling Brazil's G20 shine
• China Says 'Please Stop Buying Our Bonds'
• The Uncertain Path Forward for Psychedelic Medicine
• On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
• U.K. Authority Closes Competition Probes Into Google, Apple App Stores
• Peak Europe turns 25: why June 1999 marked the continent's zenith
• Taylor Swift Gives First Statement on Canceled Vienna Shows and Terror Plot
• The ubiquitous J.B. Pritzker, the man behind the Democrats' party
• Japan is still reeling 100 days after the Noto earthquake
• Blighty newsletter: Labour is demolishing the Tories' pet projects
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• Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole
• Why you have an accent in a foreign language
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• Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
• Chinese firms are expanding in South-East Asia
• Lawmakers Seek Answers From Meta About Ads for Illicit Drugs
• The EU should be the world's heat-pump pioneer
• Britain's Conservatives rule the Thames Estuary. Not for long
• Ford Steps Back From EVs—and Says Hybrids Are the Future
• When party propaganda falls flat
• UAW Files Federal Labor Charges Against Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Alleging They Tried to 'Threaten and Intimidate Workers'
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
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• Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
• Vuelta a España debutant Pavel Bittner sprints to stage five win in Seville
• A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
• Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
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• The pandemic's toll on schooling emerges in awful new exam results
• Is America's economy heading for a consumer crunch?
• Why is Brazil a hotspot for financial crime?
• This week's covers
• How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People's Fridges
• Next-Generation Biotech Is Rendering Some Lab Animals Obsolete
• Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer
• The family feud that holds the Philippines back
• The growing global movement to restrain house prices
• Why are so many of the victims in Gaza children?
• China is using archaeology as a weapon
• A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
• Britain's Conservative Party faces up to its own mortality
• Cashless talk
• Why fake research is rampant in China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Run of Record-Breaking Heat Has Ended, for Now
• Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo
• The Maldives is cosying up to China
• Hamas talks up a truce, but Israel may still invade Rafah
• Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
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• CloudBrute - Awesome Cloud Enumerator
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• The world's most violent region needs a new approach to crime
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• The clues in Kamala Harris's championing of reproductive rights
• How King Charles III counts his swans
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
• China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
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• In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own
• The evolution of Britain's extreme right
• Imran Khan comes under further pressure in Pakistan
• The plight of Brazil's indigenous groups worsens
• Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China's exports
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• The deal that freed Evan Gershkovich was more than a prisoner swap
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• Sources and acknowledgments
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• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• Our presidential election prediction shows Democrats back in the race
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• Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza
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• Must try harder
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A shock election result in France puts the left in the lead
• Even China's own state media sometimes resent state control
• Jonathan Braun, Whose Sentence Was Commuted by Trump, Is Charged With Assault
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
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• What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India's electronics industry is surging
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• Why Britain's Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
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• Why Latin America is the world's trade pipsqueak
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• Row at Royal Society over bid to re-elect former president to head 'boys' club'
• Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
• Joe cried, Kamala cried and so did I. Can this be the Democrats putting on a better show than Trump ever did? | Emma Brockes
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China is going crazy for durians
• KAL's cartoon
• The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
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• The Democrats Hone Their Trump Narrative
• In South-East Asia, the war in Gaza is roiling emotions
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• Tim Walz, Accepting VP Nomination, Gives Democrats a Pep Rally at DNC
• I'm obsessed with sea worms: 'Thankfully, in 25 years of working with them, I've never been bitten'
• Can America afford its debts?
• Kenya's deadly Gen-Z protests could change the country
• Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
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• Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
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• The best films of 2021
• The disorganisation of the Democratic rebels against Joe Biden
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• Israel's ground assault hits Gaza's communication network
• Epic Games Challenges Apple's Dominance With New iOS App Store
• How paddleboarding conquered Britain: the delights and dangers of the nation's fastest-growing sport
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• This week's covers
• Why China's confidence crisis goes unfixed
• Starfield update offers a new vehicle and improved framerates for Xbox Series S
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• What a Survey On Anal Sex and Masturbation Reveals About Prostates and Pleasure
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• Who was behind the arson attacks on railways before the Olympics?
• Kishida Fumio, Japan's prime minister, stands down
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• How Ukraine's enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
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• The global power of Big Agriculture's lobbying
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• Tanzania's opposition, once flat on its back, is now on its knees
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• Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs
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