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• Sexual violence is junta's 'modus operandi', Myanmar activist tells UN
• Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
• Why wretched Lebanese are fleeing across the sea
• A ruling over ownership of the Benin bronzes may delay their return
• How life has changed along China's border with South-East Asia
• Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare
• Investors have reason to fear a strong economy
• Tensions will linger over a Chinese balloon downed by America
• David Cameron's appointment to investment fund 'part engineered by China'
• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• The resistible lure of the family business
• Why Vladimir Putin is not a pariah in China
• Republicans intensify their assault on city governments
• Why Ukraine needs American cluster bombs
• Inflation and rising demands on governments are changing economic policy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Uzbekistan's president clings to power while passing liberal reforms
• To ensure vaccines work properly, men should get a good night's sleep
• Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years
• America faces a debt nightmare
• The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea
• Crypto winter is showing market maturity compared to previous downturns, Electric Capital GP says
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Doctor Who Livestreamed Surgeries on TikTok Has License Yanked, Thank God
• Has the global trade recession already started?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What links Berry Gordy and Herb Alpert? The Saturday quiz
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• How DOES your cellphone work? A new exhibition dials into the science
• Tech Stocks Lead Market Higher After Inflation Falls
• Why is the British media so utterly bonkers? | Arwa Mahdawi
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Scott Snyder's Next Dark Spaces Installment Is a 'Stone-Cold Thriller'
• Emirates Gold suspended from UAE and UK bullion markets
• How We Test Products and Services - CNET
• Who are Russia's supporters?
• A different way to measure the climate impact of food
• Do Britons even like the royal family?
• Russia and Iran are upgrading their transport links
• Judge and staff shortages are leaving Americans in limbo
• Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Communist Party members must study Xi Jinping's thinking
• America's far right is increasingly protesting against LGBT people
• Fran Drescher delivers fiery speech against Hollywood studios as actors strike – video
• Is the global housing slump over?
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey's president
• Israel launched its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
• COP26 ends with a pact that is neither a triumph nor a trainwreck
• Why foreign dignitaries wear red when meeting Xi Jinping
• The world's most, and least, affordable cities are in Asia
• KAL's cartoon
• Can Sweden's two-track economy avoid a recession?
• Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover
• People in France: share your views and experience of protests against police
• Britain's doctors are on strike, again
• 'It's super-important': women take on world's toughest mountain bike track
• China brokers an Iran-Saudi rapprochement
• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
• Miyoo Mini Plus Review: A Reminder That Bigger Isn't Always Better
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• Britain's Public Order Act goes too far
• How Zionism has evolved from a project to an ideology
• 'Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning' Is the Perfect AI Panic Movie
• The Dow and Nasdaq recorded their best weekly gains since March, rising 2.3% and 3.3%, respectively, while the S&P 500 added 2.4% in a broad-based advance.
• EV Sales Hit a Record in the US. Now Their Popularity May Be Waning
• Why Joe Biden's trustbusters have fallen short of their ambitions
• KAL's cartoon
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• Dick Ravitch, New York's fiscal superman
• Tough language from Xi Jinping belies his anxiety
• America's $800bn climate splurge is feeding a new lobbying ecosystem
• Rebuilding Ukraine will require money, but also tough reforms
• Weeks of Extreme Heat Strain Small Businesses and Economy
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• China's public is fed up, but not on the brink of revolt
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Zuckerberg Channeled 'OG Mark' to Fast-Track Effort That Became Threads
• Places with high religious participation have fewer deaths of despair
• Joe Biden attempts to defang the Chinese tiger
• How the Human Genome Project revolutionised biology
• Why commodity-trading scandals are multiplying
• In America, school test results are still lagging behind pre-covid levels
• What does China's reopening mean for Latin America?
• George Orwell's horticultural sensibilities
• Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
• Prince Harry complains again, this time in court
• Big pharma is warming to the potential of AI
• The death of Silvio Berlusconi creates uncertainty for his party
• East Asia's new family portrait
• Nigel Lawson was the economic brain of Thatcherism
• Drought killed 43,000 people in Somalia last year
• Obituary: A.Q. Khan was the world's biggest nuclear proliferator
• Wagner fighters start training soldiers in Belarus
• The best podcasts of 2021
• 29 Best Prime Day Apple Deals (2023): iPad, Apple Watch, and MagSafe Accessories
• KAL's cartoon
• Much of the Earth remains unexplored
• Why short prison sentences in England and Wales are a disaster
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Elon Musk's xAI Might Be Hallucinating Its Chances Against ChatGPT
• Here's How Twitter Could Become Irrelevant
• A New York jury will be asked if Donald Trump is a rapist
• Newfangled coins and mercenaries may have brought about democracy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The best albums of 2021
• Mario Terán was the man sent to kill Che Guevara
• Streaming services are helping Arab producers liven up television
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• Should you send your children to private school?
• The world's most liveable cities in 2023
• Self-Driving Cars: The Complete Guide
• Myanmar's conflict is dividing South-East Asia
• Countries need to pull more carbon dioxide out of the air
• Politics
• AI Could Change How Blind People See the World
• KAL's cartoon
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• Catholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuse
• What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth
• New Human Embryo Models Spark Needless Controversy
• Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap?
• When will China's GDP overtake America's?
• An American-backed foreign force may be sent to Haiti
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Charting Ukraine's soaring exports to the EU
• Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
• Apple, Google, and MOVEit Just Patched Serious Security Flaws
• A geopolitical setback for China in the Pacific
• Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
• Chinese nationalists are up in arms over the treatment of pandas
• 'I was terrified of being known as the girl who was attacked while on The X Factor': Lucy Spraggan on rape, recovery and reality TV
• Spain: severe floods sweep cars away after torrential rain – video report
• Jiang Zemin oversaw a wave of economic change, but not much political reform
• Anoint my caverns with oil
• A winner has emerged in the old rivalry between Singapore and Hong Kong
• 18 Best Prime Day Mattress Deals (2023): Mattresses, Sheets, Weighted Blankets
• Chinese propaganda is surprisingly effective abroad
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• Ukraine War: Botanists Risked Their Lives for a Priceless Collection
• Narendra Modi is rewriting Indian history
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Shane Warne believed that cricket should always be fun
• Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky's Arrest Won't Fix Crypto
• The market for dinosaur fossils is booming
• Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city
• 'Mission: Impossible' is still the geekiest spy franchise
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• Once Russia's best friend in the West, Austria is facing trouble
• British politics is littered with fake taboos
• Acltoolkit - ACL Abuse Swiss-Knife
• Wrightbus bets on hydrogen buses
• The Glasgow summit left a huge hole in the world's plans to curb climate change
• Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law
• Business
• Britons should brace for more travel chaos
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hudson Valley Weekend Trips: Where to Find the Region's Best New Restaurants, Hotels and Kombucha Sorbet
• Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison
• What Is Blockchain? The Complete WIRED Guide
• How one of Britain's oldest youth clubs is trying to stay relevant
• The Best Prime Day Laptop Deals Still Available Aren't From Amazon - CNET
• Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal shortage
• China's latest attempt to rally the world against Western values
• Poor areas suffered 3.5 times more damage in Turkey's earthquake
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• Greece's prime minister wins an election, but lacks a majority
• FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is drawing near
• Hackers Could Use Electric Vehicle Chargers to Attack the Power Grid
• Copper is unexpectedly getting cheaper
• White Gladis and Her Killer Whales Are Getting Revenge—30 Years After 'Free Willy'
• Don't Join Threads—Make Instagram's 'Twitter Killer' Join You
• 'Silo' Beautifully Adapts One of Sci-Fi's Best Books
• Russia's army is learning on the battlefield
• How an east African country became an odd sort of global powerhouse
• Satellite data show Ukraine's forces are testing Russia's defences
• Is doing business in China becoming impossible for foreigners?
• Obituary: Mikis Theodorakis wrote the theme tune of "Zorba the Greek"
• Prescription rules for obesity drugs may unfairly exclude non-whites
• Mike Pence Answers Jan. 6 Question From Iowa Voter
• China's war on financial reality
• How the Brain Creates Your Physical Sense of Self
• How Threads Could Kill Twitter
• The Dominion lawsuit showed the limits of Fox's influence over its audience
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
• Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• People of different opinions process political data differently
• After decades of stagnation, wages in Japan are finally rising
• Arab tourism to Israel is still thwarted by politics and Palestine
• Binyamin Netanyahu has lost his aura of invincibility
• With Hollywood on strike, foreign shows enjoy the limelight
• Birth Control Isn't the Only Thing That Just Went Over-the-Counter
• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
• Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway
• A dictator and his entitled son are holding Uganda captive
• Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
• China is exerting greater power across Asia—and beyond
• Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
• America is courting India in part for its growing economic clout
• Who are the militias raiding Russia's Belgorod region?
• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• The best fast chargers for 2023
• The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
• Over-The-Counter Birth Control Pills Have Been Approved. Let's Make Them Inexpensive and Easily Available
• Even doctors can struggle to diagnose concussions
• How intrepid Victorian surveyors mapped the length and breadth of Britain
• Quebec elects François Legault's fiercely nationalist party
• Our Fave Cookware Deals at All-Clad's Factory Seconds Sale
• Will Hunter Biden damage his father's bid for re-election? – podcast
• America is lavishing attention on Pacific island states
• How India is using digital technology to project power
• Many thousands of Africans have disappeared in conflict
• America's Supreme Court weighs religious accommodations in the workplace
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Retirement has become much longer across the rich world
• A Chinese reality-TV show about farming doubles as propaganda
• The conundrum of Germany's business ties with China
• Turkish property prices are soaring
• Vladimir Putin wants to militarise Russian schools
• Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
• Sucking a carbon-neutral fuel out of thin air
• Carolyn Bryant's was the testimony that doomed Emmett Till
• Climate change is harder on less educated people
• Alcaraz demolishes Medvedev to set up dream Wimbledon final with Djokovic
• The difficulties facing Britain's covid-19 inquiry
• Britain's emergency text alert is a signal of something bigger
• 'Every morning, I curse Putin': Ukrainian village's sole resident defiant amid the ruins
• Firms search for greener supplies of graphite for EV batteries
• How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
• Who is keeping coal alive?
• Turkey sits at the crossroads of tectonic plates as well as civilisations
• ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
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• An anatomy of hard times in the city
• Lester Piggott had only one aim in view
• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
• AI is not yet killing jobs
• Violent crime in America
• Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• The Philippines' proximity to Taiwan makes it central to Western strategy
• The Jan. 6 rioter arrested near Obama's home with guns and ammo is indicted
• The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams
• Passes acquired Fanhouse, but some creators are apprehensive
• F.W. de Klerk had to abandon what his ancestors had believed in
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• US agency loses bid to halt Microsoft's $69bn purchase of Activision Blizzard
• China and Russia compete for Central Asia's favour
• It is time to divert Taiwan's trade and investment from China
• Elon Musk, King of Censorship: 10 Times the 'Free Speech Absolutist' Silenced Twitter Users
• Football clubs' revenues rebound from covid—especially in England
• What the First Republic deal means for America's banks
• How America plans to break China's grip on African minerals
• The rise and rise of e-sports
• Boots Riley Says a 'Gentler Capitalism' Won't Save Society
• A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak
• Who does Olaf Scholz listen to?
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• How a balloon burst Sino-American talks
• America's jobs report is not as strong as it seems
• An inspiring, if frustrating, portrayal of the Williams sisters' coach and dad
• France attacks choice of prominent US economist for EU job
• There is more than one way to make green steel
• The missing ingredient in Britain's new law on tenants' rights
• Is big business really getting too big?
• US sees deadliest six months of mass killings on record since at least 2006
• The Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses
• Lynzy Billing Wins 2023 Michael Kelly Award for ProPublica Investigation
• Business
• Proposed legal reforms could be dire for Israel
• Wanted: a Britain economics writer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track
• A new super-regulator takes aim at rampant corruption in Chinese finance
• Spain's election is a key battle in the Europe-wide struggle against neofascism | Gordon Brown
• Musk claims more trust can be put in his xAI than OpenAI and Google
• Argentina clinch the World Cup after beating France on penalties
• An appeals court denied a last-ditch bid by the FTC to halt Microsoft's planned acquisition of videogame publisher Activision Blizzard.
• New Lawsuit Claims Texas TikTok Ban Violates First Amendment
• Bangladesh's economic miracle is in jeopardy
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• Better than a doughnut? Delia Smith dishes up a deep-fried jam sandwich
• The idea of "holobionts" represents a paradigm shift in biology
• What Happens If UPS Goes on Strike
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• How covid-19 spurred governments to snoop on sewage
• In 2021 our writers considered technology, meritocracy and the trans debate
• A post-Erdogan Turkey would only partly change its foreign policy
• SAG-AFTRA Authorizes Actors' Strike After a Negotiation Breakdown
• In the West, assisted dying is rapidly becoming legal and accepted
• China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• My Balls-Out Quest to Achieve the Perfect Scrotum
• When it comes to a war with Taiwan, many Chinese urge caution
• How white-collar warriors gear up for the day
• British pension funds agree to invest more in private markets
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• What does China want from Latin America and the Caribbean?
• Hollywood is losing the battle for China
• Are Canadian cities better than America's?
• Blacklist3r - Accumulate Secret Keys / Secret Materials Related To Various Web Frameworks
• Cuba's Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
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• Vladimir Putin has rallied the West
• Crazy policies and climate change are hurting Latin American agriculture
• The rise of user-created video games
• Indian rocket blasts into space on historic moon mission
• The Feds Are Investigating ChatGPT's Hallucination Problem
• The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow
• How Taylor Swift's 'Speak Now' Became the 'Scary' Version
• A new book explains the tragic failure of Boeing's 737 MAX
• To understand Labour's shadow cabinet, read its books
• Michael Lipton: The big man of land reform
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• If You Find the Economy Confusing, Don't Worry: It Is
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Best Monitor Deals: Samsung 32-Inch 4K Display on Sale for $270 - CNET
• Politics
• How Europe is spluttering its way to better air quality
• Microsoft Can Close Its $75 Billion Buy of Activision Blizzard, Judge Rules
• Startups, be careful who you sell to
• What makes a good office perk?
• 18 Ways to Think About the Heat
• Picket Lines Get a New Dose of Star Power
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• Asian businesses are being dragged into the chip war
• China wants the world to forget about its crimes in Xinjiang
• Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
• More and more Americans are gaming the deposit-insurance system
• How to Survive a Devastating Earthquake—and Firestorm
• Putin Says Wagner Can Keep Fighting for Russia, but Without Prigozhin
• Stocks have shrugged off the banking turmoil. Haven't they?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
• Huw Edwards: the unanswered questions hovering over presenter's future
• J. Robert Oppenheimer's Defense of Humanity
• Will Xi Jinping outsmart Emmanuel Macron?
• Spanish renewable-energy development is waking from its siesta
• Italy's protected sectors need exposure to more competition
• How 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' De-Aged Harrison Ford
• Tucker Carlson and former White House adviser Neil Patel are seeking to raise funds to start a media company that would potentially use Twitter as its backbone, according to people familiar with the matter.
• Europe will need to fundamentally reset its fiscal policies
• Go First's insolvency tests India's bankruptcy regime
• The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not yet
• A decades-old model of animal (and human) learning is under fire
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine
• Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
• China's new head of government, Li Qiang, has Xi Jinping's ear
• For Western democracies, the price of avoiding a clash with China is rising
• NATO is drafting new plans to defend Europe
• A new way to clean up the steel industry
• Reading the death certificate on Boris Johnson's political career
• What the rise of student consulting clubs means
• Was COP26 in Glasgow a success?
• KAL's cartoon
• Hyundai Ioniq 5 N High-Performance EV Debuts With 641 HP, N Drift Mode - CNET
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• A cartography of human histology is in the making
• The financial system is slipping into state control
• Jair Bolsonaro's challenge to Brazil's election was rejected
• Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts
• Why Lebanon's drivers can't be legal
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• "Aftermath" is a piercing study of Germany after 1945
• Why Tim Scott is such a long shot for the Republican nomination
• Brazil's election is tight ahead of a run-off on October 30th
• A flawed argument for central-bank digital currencies
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• The bad bind bedevilling Mike Pence and Chris Christie
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• Obituary: Graham Vick believed glorious music belonged to everyone
• Microsoft's Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI
• Rebuilding Ukraine Is an Act of Resistance
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan beats his challenger as Turkey votes
• Putin v Prigozhin: is Wagner too valuable to crush? - podcast
• Argentina's slum policy is a rare bright spot in the country
• China simulates precision strikes on Taiwan
• The Sun, the BBC and Huw Edwards: the story of a scandal - podcast
• China's rulers play the law-and-order card, and lose
• What would Europe do if Trump won?
• Rampant jihadists are spreading chaos and misery in the Sahel
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is making mixed progress
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Man whose mother-in-law's blue and black dress went viral charged with trying to kill wife
• Botswana, an African success story, looks ever less exceptional
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• Who will succeed Shia Islam's top man?
• Meta's Threads Now Has to Keep Its Millions of Users Engaged
• How Ukraine's enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
• ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent, reports a record profit
• Despite an explosion, Elon Musk is closer to his new space age
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• Cambodia's autocrat is fixing his succession
• Why Chinese carmakers are eyeing Thailand
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the state could take control of the banking system
• KAL's cartoon
• Fox News shows that not even Tucker Carlson is bigger than the network
• China Doesn't Want to Compete. It Wants to Win.
• US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory
• Micronesia takes on China
• How to Actually Find Good Recipes Online
• Autherine Lucy was an unlikely pioneer
• US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It
• KAL's cartoon
• The age of the grandparent has arrived
• The world divided
• How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?
• msLDAPDump - LDAP Enumeration Tool
• Banks Can't Shortchange Savers Forever
• The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
• Covid-19 has already torn through large swathes of China
• A hit film recalling an ancient poem fuels Chinese nationalist fervour
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• Why Cape Town beats Johannesburg
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• Apple's Vision Pro is a technical marvel. Will anyone buy it?
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Politics
• Spain's prime minister gambles on a snap general election
• Fearing China, Australia rethinks its defence strategy
• What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?
• Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
• A farewell to small cars, the industrial icons that put Europe on wheels
• Ukraine's top guns need new jets to win the war
• Ukraine War: Botanists Risked Their Lives for a Priceless Collection
• Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• What to make of the Supreme Court's tumultuous term
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky's highly methodical madness
• I had no power wand to force people into bed, Kevin Spacey tells UK court
• Bob Dole believed in hard work, not words
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• Obituary: Bernard Tapie, a colourful and controversial French businessman
• How food companies 'sweetened the world' – and increased the risk of disease
• America needs a jab in its corporate backside
• Britain's Conservative Party takes a local-election bruising
• Why EY and its rivals may eventually break up, after all
• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
• Joe Biden fires the starting gun on the presidential race
• After a bungled coup attempt, Peru's president falls
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• Britain's semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
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• Third-Party Streaming Platform Brings a Few NES and PlayStation Properties to Xbox
• Northwestern baseball coach Jim Foster is fired days after football hazing scandal
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• As heat records break, the climate movement has the right answers – but the words are all wrong | Jonathan Freedland
• Japanese workers are seeking higher wages overseas
• The Economist's UK election poll tracker
• How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Meta gets whacked with a €1.2bn penalty
• Appeals court rejects the FTC's last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft from buying Activision
• KAL's cartoon
• Wage growth, inflation and more place Britain's central bank in a spot
• Retail investors are losing billions buying stock options
• As Lula takes over, Brazil's economic prospects are looking up
• Vladimir Putin's courts are stepping up repression
• A Belgian company wants to create woolly-mammoth burgers
• Mexico's president wants to develop the poorer south
• Guatemala's election produces a pleasant surprise
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
• Labour makes striking gains in the heartland of Brexit
• Vast satellite constellations are alarming astronomers
• Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024
• Republican presidential candidates canoodle with Moms for Liberty
• How to ask for a bribe without asking for a bribe
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• Reddit is killing its Gold awards system
• Alexander Lukashenko is the clearest beneficiary of Wagner's mutiny
• Refugee-friendly Canada tightens its border with the United States
• India is getting an eye-wateringly big transport upgrade
• America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies
• There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
• Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
• Rebuilding Ukraine Is an Act of Resistance
• How to Support Your Favorite Bands and Musicians
• Support for the hard-right AfD is surging in Germany
• Economists and investors should pay less attention to consumers
• Brazil's new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
• Pay for bosses in Britain falls far behind America. Tough luck
• Russians have helped make Dubai's property market red hot—again
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• Zimbabwe wants to come in from the cold
• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Sunday brunch is the new Friday night
• Ex-diplomat jailed for 2012 murder of Venezuelan ambassador in Kenya
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• Sudan's war is home-grown, but risks drawing in outsiders
• France moved quickly to evacuate civilians from Sudan
• Elon Musk Launches xAI, His New Artificial-Intelligence Company
• Gina Lollobrigida's ambition was her strength and her weakness
• Is China's attitude to genetically modified crops changing?
• Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain's boarding schools
• Canada's Conservatives pick a brainy brawler as leader
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Trudeau pays tribute to firefighter, 19, killed battling Canada wildfires
• Poland's government may seek to bar opponents from politics
• El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is not paying off
• Executive coaching is useful therapy that you can expense
• Silicon Valley start-ups explore sales as funding runs dry
• European politics has gone from complicated to impenetrable
• Richard Leakey established Kenya as a prime source of hominid fossils
• The battle to control Mexican telecoms
• Costly climate rules are turning Germans away from the Greens
• How oceans became new technological battlefields
• Joe Biden needs Mexico's co-operation on migration
• China is trying to win over Westerners and private firms
• In China, Germany's foreign minister does not hold back—and is still welcomed
• German bosses are depressed
• The Economist's finance and economics internship
• The US Senate Wants to Rein In AI. Good Luck With That
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• A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
• KAL's cartoon
• Gene-editing has created a generation of musical crops
• Can baseball fans be won over by the world's second-biggest sport?
• Silvergate is the latest victim of the crypto meltdown
• Death Valley Could Set a World Record Hot Temperature
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
• Ron DeSantis's six-week abortion ban brings risks to women
• The future of fish farming is on land
• Brazil's new president faces a fiscal crunch and a fickle Congress
• FTC Continues Fight to Block Microsoft's $75 Billion Deal for Activision
• St. Louis Fed President James Bullard Steps Down
• Antarctic rocks can help sort stone tools from natural lookalikes
• Cyberwarfare is all in the mind, says Britain
• Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
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• Why Chairman Mao's victims are denied justice
• Video: insights from the author
• The lessons from the Chinese spy balloon
• A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow
• We're in the pruning phase of tech layoffs
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• Brazil's next president will face a big, tricky in-tray
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• Why vaccine passports are causing chaos
• Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
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• Erotic statues in Peru are challenging taboos
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