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• UK antitrust body probes Google's ties with AI rival Anthropic
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• How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China
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• Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
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• Why caste still matters in Indian politics
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• How a Russia-linked mine may keep the ANC in power
• The property firm that could break China's back
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• Rohingya are being forced to fight in Myanmar's civil war
• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
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• The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway
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• Meet the victors in Africa's coup belt
• Blighty newsletter: Could the Labour Party fix lawmaking?
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• The race to prevent satellite Armageddon
• Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
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• What to make of China's massive cyber-espionage campaign
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• Demand for uranium is booming. Who is benefiting?
• A crisis in prisons gives Britain's new government its first test
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• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
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• Iran's supreme leader is terrified of people power
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• Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
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• Viktor Orban solidifies his credentials as the EU's pantomime villain
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• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
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• Donald Trump tries to be both unifier and pugilist in his convention speech
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• These charts show how Britain's Tory party lost its way
• How India's imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
• China is itching to mine the ocean floor
• Comic-Con leak sparks rumors of two remastered Soul Reaver games
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• Komodo Dragons' Nightmare Iron-Tipped Teeth Are a Reptilian First
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• Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach
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• A short history of India in eight maps
• How Gen Zs rebel against Asia's rigid corporate culture
• Google DeepMind's Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind Spot
• Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
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• Venezuela's autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
• Xi Jinping looks abroad for confidence
• Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
• Vietnam's ruling communists rush to fill the country's top jobs
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• How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
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• Our constituency poll has awful news for Britain's Tories
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• Ackman postpones Pershing Square IPO after scaling back expectations
• Many small islands have no room for manoeuvre at COP28
• The attack on Donald Trump unleashes a flood of misinformation
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• Australia joins the industrial arms race
• China's fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa's coasts
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• Why France's president called a snap election
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• McDonald's sales fall worldwide for first time in four years as cost of living bites
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• Why fake research is rampant in China
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• Blighty newsletter: Three (early) observations about Britain's new government
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• The Highly Infectious FLiRT Variants Behind the Summer Covid Wave
• After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
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• NASA's PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
• The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes
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• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• Hard times for China's micro-industrialists
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
• The world's rules-based order is cracking
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• Glenda Jackson left acting for politics—and then returned
• The Economist's agony uncle returns
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• OPEC heavyweights are cheating on their targets
• Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
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• Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself
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• Once high-flying Boeing is now a corporate criminal
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• From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
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• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• The meaning of Donald Trump's Supreme Court victory
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• America's banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
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• Iran's new leaders stand at a nuclear precipice
• Germany's debt brake and the art of fantasy budgeting
• Stellantis Mulls Price Cuts As Bottom Line Misses Forecasts
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• European airlines are on a shopping spree
• Anguish about Joe Biden's candidacy is rational, polls suggest
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• Ukraine's death-defying art rescuers
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
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• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
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• The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
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• Labour's landslide victory will turn politics on its head
• Why is Thai health care so good?
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• French audit cautions Élysée over €475k cost of King Charles dinner
• Black baseball players of yore get their due, at last
• Severe drought is constraining the Panama Canal
• Introducing El Boletín, our new weekly newsletter on Latin America
• SearchGPT Is OpenAI's Direct Assault on Google
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
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• A Case for Backing Up Your Precious Photos and Files at Home
• Nissan Motor Cuts Sales, Profit Forecasts After Weak Quarter
• Romania's hard right looks strong in a year of four elections
• Donald Trump has a three in four chance of winning the election
• EU calls for help with shaping rules for general purpose AIs
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• The alarming foreign policies of France's hard right and hard left
• Why the next Westminster scandal is already here
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• The revolt against Binyamin Netanyahu
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• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
• KAL's cartoon
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Why China's companies are recruiting their own militias
• The builder of the Titanic is struggling to stay afloat
• The world is bracing for Donald Trump's possible return
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• Big tech's great AI power grab
• How crises reshaped the world financial system
• How Did Venezuela Get Here?
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• What campus protesters get wrong about divestment
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• There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine
• What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China's economy
• At what age do you hit the peak of your career?
• Turkish women should soon be allowed to keep their maiden names
• Europe Is Pumping Billions Into New Military Tech
• China Cleared Swimmers in Doping Dispute, Citing Tainted Burgers
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• Extreme Heat Kills Hundreds of Thousands Worldwide Each Year
• More than 500 Mexicans flee to Guatemala to escape cartel violence in Chiapas
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• G42, an Emirati AI hopeful, has big plans
• The cautionary tale of Huy Fong's hot sauce
• Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
• Russia Seizes Urozhaine and Staromaiorske From Ukraine After Furious Battles
• Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why skipping ropes are so expensive in China
• Lawrence Wong in his own words
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• The EU's best-laid plans for expansion are clashing with reality
• What the cases of Robert Menendez and Henry Cuellar have in common
• In New York, the Democratic establishment strikes back
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• Olympics Photo of the Day: A Moment of Victory
• Donald Tusk mulls which of the previous government's plans to axe
• When is a non-alcoholic drink alcohol-free?
• Is the revival of Paris in peril?
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• Peak Europe turns 25: why June 1999 marked the continent's zenith
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
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• Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again
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• Steve Jobs Knew the Moment the Future Had Arrived. It's Calling Again
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• China's revealing struggle with childhood myopia
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• Japan and South Korea are struggling with old-age poverty
• Sheikh Hasina faces her biggest crisis in years
• France is desperately searching for a government
• Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
• Samsung Galaxy Ring review: A bit basic, a bit pricey
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• Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo
• UFOs are going mainstream
• Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby
• Why Eurovision won't boot out Israel
• Is America Inc's war for talent over?
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