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• The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
• Why Taiwanese youth complain of becoming "housing slaves"
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why New Zealanders are emigrating in record numbers
• China has freed an American pastor. Does it want anything in return?
• Business
• The world's worst conference
• How China sees Gaza
• A horrific killing spree shakes Syria
• Tracking ships in the Red Sea
• An FBI sting operation catches Jackson's mayor taking big bribes
• Politics
• Democrats need to understand: Americans think they're worse
• Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud
• Joe Brown died on April 15th
• Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug
• Israel has these four options for attacking Iran
• The Trump tariff saga offers Canada's Liberals a lifeline
• Can America's stockmarket rally last?
• China Signals It Is Open to a Deal Keeping TikTok in U.S.
• Hong Kong's richest man is caught between China and America
• Which shares have done best from the Trump trade?
• A Public Health Researcher and Her Engineer Husband Found How Diseases Can Spread through Air Decades before the COVID Pandemic
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• Argentina's Javier Milei is betting big on an oil gusher
• Why Trump's 'Golden Dome' Won't Shield the U.S. from Nuclear Strikes
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
• The debt barons who are taking on the banks
• Meet Europe's Gaullists, Atlanticists, denialists and Putinists
• Oil traders are flocking to sanctions-free Venezuela
• Germany's urgent need for greater public investment
• Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
• Wild boar hybrids are raising hell on the Canadian prairies
• James Lovelock changed the way human beings look at the Earth
• The sweet story of Peru's blueberry boom
• Anybody in Britain can call themselves a therapist
• Why America keeps building corrupt client states
• China is using archaeology as a weapon
• Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
• Southern Gaza could become more densely populated than Delhi
• Does every business need a cash pile like Warren Buffett's?
• Netflix has big ambitions for live sport
• How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From 'Regulate Us' to 'Unleash Us'
• Willie Levi died on April 23rd
• How bond investors soured on France
• How squid could help people get over their needle phobia
• This Peacock Premium deal ends soon: Get one year for only $25
• The pope's last coded message
• The two types of human laugh
• Sources and acknowledgments
• China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
• Britain's rushed, muddled intervention in the steel industry
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
• The harmony between Labour and Britain's trade unions
• Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The West struggles to respond forcefully to Russia's war in Ukraine
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• One of Assad's mass graves is found, with as many as 100,000 bodies
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• America's elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal
• NATO's race against Russia to rearm
• Why American tech stocks are newly vulnerable
• Business
• Environments can affect language—just not how you think
• Taiwan needs a new defence strategy to deal with China
• Youngsters are fleeing Japan's once-mighty civil service
• SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures
• William Dement died on June 17th
• How will Labour reform Britain's public services?
• China has chilling plans for governing Taiwan
• Volunteers with Down's syndrome could help find Alzheimer's drugs
• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
• Why China's companies are recruiting their own militias
• 7-Eleven is still struggling to fend off its Canadian suitor
• If America bans TikTok, lots of other companies will suffer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Germany's economy stage an unexpected recovery?
• Riots over a dead Muslim ruler put Narendra Modi in a tight spot
• Sir Keir Starmer finds a role
• Will Donald Trump now pardon the January 6th rioters?
• Nikolai Antoshkin died on January 17th
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• Iris Apfel became a fashion icon in her ninth decade
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• Scotland's failure to build homes is mainly due to its government
• The notable obituaries of 2023
• Is Trump Falling Out of Love With Putin?
• Is the opioid epidemic finally burning out?
• Years after acquiring Tile, Life360 has integrated the trackers into its app
• Trouble at home threatens Friedrich Merz's global ambitions
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• Andrés Manuel López Obrador splashes out as elections loom
• Business
• Could Kamikawa Yoko be Japan's next prime minister?
• China hawks are losing influence in Trumpworld, despite the trade war
• Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Three charts show that America's imports are booming
• What's next for Britain and the EU?
• How Donald Trump plans to ramp up deportations
• Africa's oldest surviving Catholic church is under threat
• Why are there so many suicides in rich, stable Uruguay?
• All the Top Features in MacOS Sequoia
• The 23 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (May 2025)
• The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now
• Where British MPs should look before the vote on assisted dying
• The Bay of Bengal should be an economic superpower
• Egypt is again under military rule, but Sisi lacks Nasser's appeal
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• If Nigeria cannot end fuel shortages, disaster beckons
• One island, two worlds
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Bosses beware: the tariff shock is not like covid-19
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
• Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump's return
• Europe's streets are alive with the sound of protests
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• India has quietly transformed its ports
• Why financial markets are so oddly calm
• The secret to taking better penalties
• The beginning of the end of the Trump era
• Gao Yaojie uncovered a scandal that shocked and shamed China
• How dangerous would Asian security be without America?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
• The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass
• Defence tech is blowing up Silicon Valley's beliefs
• Li Wenliang died on February 7th
• Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
• Are big cities overrated?
• Trade tensions help Singapore's prime minister to a big win
• Bolivia's slow-motion economic crisis is accelerating
• This week's cover
• Aid cannot make poor countries rich
• Introducing Analysing Africa, our latest newsletter
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump revives McKinley's imperial legacy
• For Western democracies, the price of avoiding a clash with China is rising
• What makes Australia so liveable?
• Worried about your screen-addicted kids? Sign them up to linear TV summer camp: the Stephen Collins cartoon
• Ireland's government has an unusual problem: too much money
• Despite the rally, Apple still faces a trade-war nightmare
• Donald Trump has a strong foreign-policy hand, but could blow it
• Xi Jinping's plan to overtake America in AI
• How India can compete in labour-intensive manufacturing
• Javier Milei finally lugs key reforms through Argentina's Senate
• Leonardo Drew review – are these towers of debris the ruins of America?
• China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to seize Taiwan
• Why China hates the Panama Canal deal, but still may not block it
• Meet the incels and anti-feminists of Asia
• What next for US Steel?
• Which economy did best in 2024?
• War is not the only reason some Muslims are ditching the Democrats
• What to Expect When You're Convicted
• A thorny debate in Britain around the definition of "Islamophobia"
• I Thought No Robot Vacuum Could Navigate My Tricky Furniture, Then One Surprised Me With Its Ingenious Arms
• Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump's Campaign Trail
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's election and Israel's wars reach a crescendo—together
• The plight of Brazil's indigenous groups worsens
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Will Jamie Dimon build the first trillion-dollar bank?
• Blighty newsletter: Is Britain going cold on America?
• Obituary: Ernst van de Wetering could spot a Rembrandt anywhere
• The hard right takes Germany into dangerous territory
• Canada, China, Mexico and the art of retaliation
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• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• The military draft is making a comeback
• This week's cover
• Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger
• Mexico's government is suing American gun manufacturers
• Where democracy is most at risk
• Latin American society is modernising, mostly for the better
• An alternative use for The Economist's Big Mac index
• Young men in Spain love the hardline Vox
• Donald Trump's plan for American carmaking is full of potholes
• Is the age of American air superiority coming to an end?
• Business
• What a refugee camp reveals about economics
• Japan and South Korea are struggling with old-age poverty
• The weekly cartoon
• Why the hype for hybrid cars will not last
• Britain's experiment with liberal immigration policies is over
• Paying teenagers to go to school was a bad idea
• Why global bond markets are convulsing
• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• The Milky Way Has a Mysterious 'Broken Bone'
• Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky
• A biographer explores Greta Garbo's glamour and vacuity
• Ennio Morricone died on July 6th
• Why Gen X is the real loser generation
• How Mexico and Canada handled Trump's tariff threat
• Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years
• What's wrong with democracy in Europe?
• Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple's march towards $4trn?
• Azerbaijan's government turns on its critics at home
• The war on prices: British edition
• Why is it so hard for Indians to get a visa?
• The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
• Ukraine fears being cut out of talks between America and Russia
• Why Romania cancelled a pro-Russian presidential candidate
• An Ivy League graduate is charged over Brian Thompson's murder
• Swiss franc, Japanese yen Rise as DeepSeek News Boosts Safe Havens
• Alternative fund managers are increasingly mainstream
• Armin Papperger: the German arms boss Russia wants dead
• A pro-doping sporting contest is coming to Las Vegas
• Why 2024 could become the hottest year on record
• Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
• How Brazilian lawmakers won extra powers to waste money
• The nationalism of ideas
• No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada
• Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury
• What will Donald Trump do about legal immigration?
• Near-shoring is turning eastern Europe into the new China
• The bid to make Florida's most famous city a tech hub
• Europe will never agree on Israel – but here's a way it can act to help Gaza | Nathalie Tocci
• Ships crash in the North Sea
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador puts his stamp on Mexico's schools
• American threats push Greenland closer to Denmark
• Will the West betray or save anti-Putin protesters in Georgia?
• Bolsonaro's bid to regain Brazil's presidency may end in prison
• Elon Musk's praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany
• What does China want from Latin America and the Caribbean?
• Donald Trump is testing more than America's constitution
• The British state has a bad case of long covid
• Time to go
• Sources and acknowledgments
• America's other great migration
• Muhammad Amir Muhammad Khan fought India's government for five decades
• Polarisation by education is remaking American politics
• The trouble with MAGA's manufacturing dream
• King's Cross, a miracle in London
• Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast
• Contributors to Scientific American's June 2025 Issue
• MAGA is already rewiring American education
• A tie-up between Honda and Nissan will not fix their problems
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's progressives should love standardised tests
• Charting Ukraine's soaring exports to the EU
• Wagner routinely targets civilians in Africa
• Voters won't thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy
• Bowel cancer is rising among young people
• Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips?
• China unites America and Europe in alarm
• An unfinished election may shape a swing state's future
• Jordan's Islamists have been boosted by the war in Gaza
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs are absurd
• Global temperatures have broken records three times in a week
• Ishiba Shigeru will become Japan's next prime minister
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Don't propose with a diamond
• KAL's cartoon
• This week's covers
• Turkey could soon strike a historic peace deal with the Kurds
• A Library on the Canada-U.S.Border Is Ensnared by Trump's Foreign Policy
• Ukraine can, at last, use its Western missiles inside Russia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why did Mohamed Al Fayed escape scrutiny?
• Trump is driving American scientists into Europe's arms
• Are Ukraine's tactics working?
• North Korea's aid to Russia raises difficult questions in China
• Chinese netizens wonder if their economy is in "garbage time"
• Yahya Sinwar made Hamas his own fief
• Where is it actually cheaper to drive an electric car?
• Why China may be saving its bazooka for Donald Trump
• America is losing South-East Asia to China
• People are splurging like never before on their pets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The MAGA revolution threatens America's most innovative place
• How oceans became new technological battlefields
• Why the Federal Reserve has gambled on a big interest-rate cut
• Gina Lollobrigida's ambition was her strength and her weakness
• Thailand's prime minister is sacked. What next?
• Syrians are still surprisingly upbeat
• UFOs are going mainstream
• A nationalist effort to rebrand the Chinese dragon
• Dr Ruth aimed to shake America out of its puritan ways
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'Grand Theft Auto' Publisher Swaps DEI for 'Diversity of Thought' in Annual Report
• Bond-market convulsions look extremely dangerous
• There's a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk's Broken Promises
• An interview with the military commander of Syria's new masters
• The one thing Israelis agree on: rescuing the hostages
• When central banks face sanctions
• Breast milk's benefits are not limited to babies
• A new crackdown is gathering strength in Turkey
• Comex Gold, Silver Settle Lower
• A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
• Trump's metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly
• This week's cover
• Ron Galella, the original paparazzo, died on April 30th, aged 91
• Retail investors are losing billions buying stock options
• The chimera of private finance for development
• Trump's trade deal with Britain will worry allies and rivals alike
• From Greenland to Panama and Mexico, leaders are in shock
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• Who is supplying Russia's arms industry?
• How to avoid Oval Office humiliation
• The world needs a proper investigation into how covid-19 started
• An anatomy of hard times in the city
• Wall Street and Main Street are split on Trump's chaos
• Can the good ship Europe weather the Trumpnado?
• Why the Trump campaign is spending heavily on ads on trans issues
• Emmanuel Macron loses another prime minister
• Inside Anthropic's First Developer Day, Where AI Agents Took Center Stage
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders
• Here's How to Turn Off Some Annoying iPhone Texting Features, Including Autocorrect
• How Turkey plans to expand its influence in the new Syria
• Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again
• Thailand legalises same-sex marriage
• Hebe de Bonafini lived through the lives of her sons
• Vienna's social housing, lauded by progressives, pushes out the poor
• Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hamas Releases Four Female Israeli Soldiers Under Gaza Cease-Fire Deal
• Do tariffs raise inflation?
• Renault readies itself to take on Chinese rivals
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
• Russ Vought: Donald Trump's holy warrior
• Trump and other populists will haunt NATO's 75th birthday party
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• MAGA: protecting the homeland from Canadian bookworms
• Stockmarkets do not reward firms for investing in Trump's America
• The temptations of deferred removals
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
• Trade unions have their eye on Britain's tech sector
• America's fentanyl epidemic, explained in six charts
• Elon Musk's Starship makes a test flight without exploding
• Experience: I've made the longest chain of chewing-gum wrappers in the world
• Will the trade war capsize shipbuilders?
• Who are Russia's supporters?
• Hamas talks a big game but is in chaos
• RFK junior is half right about American health care
• Will Donald Trump's bros turn out?
• Norway's Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
• Why a drone war in Asia would look different from the one in Ukraine
• The Applause for Jaws despite Flaws
• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• Britain's Poles now earn more than the natives
• Financial markets flail in the face of America's tariffs
• Commercial ties between the Gulf and Asia are deepening
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
• Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America's presidents
• A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
• Can teenagers outwit Australia's social-media ban?
• Poland's ruling coalition divides over women's rights
• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• Lip-Bu Tan, the man trying to save Intel
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump is embracing a shift in Republican priorities
• Instagram Keeps Polishing Its Edits App to Woo Video Creators
• Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Russians have emigrated in huge numbers since the war in Ukraine
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• Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots
• The Omicron variant advances at an incredible rate
• Ukrainian scientists are studying downed Russian missiles
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• Demand for American degrees is sinking
• How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again
• An interview with Javier Milei, Argentina's president
• America and China prepare for an Alpine trade clash
• The world's most improbable smash-hit cooking show
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A surprise new twist in Putin's currency wars
• Ericsson Shares Slump as Earnings Hit by Weakness Outside of Core Networks Business
• Serbia and its neighbours are still far from joining the EU
• Business
• British politics enters the "death zone"
• Ukraine is scrambling to find fresh fighters
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• Can Big Oil run in reverse?
• Why Indonesia's horror films are booming
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• The weekly cartoon
• Want to Buy a New iPhone? Now's Not the Time, and Here's Why
• Britain's last coal-fired power station closes
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• Donald Trump's economic warfare has a new front
• What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan
• Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chemicals magnate turned sports mogul
• Checks and Balance newsletter: America's health-care paradox
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• What is screen time doing to children?
• Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Is Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points
• Israeli aircraft buzz Beirut as the drums of war bang loud
• The high cost of schools closed by covid
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Why do people join the Trump administration?
• Justin Trudeau is paying for solar panels in the cold, dark Arctic
• Covid-19 is fuelling a Zoom-boom in cosmetic surgery
• Why India is annoyed by its ceasefire with Pakistan
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• Singapore's leader of the opposition is convicted of lying
• A social history of America in a warehouse
• Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
• Digital twins are making companies more efficient
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• France's new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
• What is Virtual Reality (VR)? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Too many people want to be social-media influencers
• How Skateboarders Helped Rebuild San Francisco's U.N. Plaza
• Meta is accused of "bullying" the open-source community
• Making nickel is a nightmare. Unless you are Indonesian
• The success of Ivory Coast is Africa's best-kept secret
• Donald Trump bypasses Israel on the path to peace in Gaza
• Assisted dying and the two concepts of liberty
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• Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite
• The Samsung 990 PRO 2TB SSD With Heatsink Is Now 45% Off, Amazon Rapidly Sells Through Its Stock
• Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina
• Big pharma's jumbo profits are under threat in America
• America under Joe Biden plays the pragmatist in Africa
• Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment
• Xi Jinping swings his "assassin's mace" of economic warfare
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• Sources and acknowledgments
• The death of Iran's president will spark a high-stakes power struggle
• Ukrainian refugees may be in Europe for good
• Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
• Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think
• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
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• Russia's friends are a motley—and shrinking—crew
• Why Mexico's largest-ever election matters
• X is 'pausing' encrypted DMs
• The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
• Chinese feminists are rebuilding their movement abroad
• Much of Russia's intellectual elite has fled the country
• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The era of multilateral peacekeeping draws to an unhappy close
• The signal and the noise
• South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
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• Let's Talk About ChatGPT and Cheating in the Classroom
• France's bitter retreat from west Africa
• No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
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• Why have Russia's armed forces been so ineffective in Ukraine?
• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• Delaware attorney general reportedly hires a bank to evaluate OpenAI's restructuring plan
• America is at risk of a Trumpian economic slowdown
• Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it
• Israeli retaliation in Lebanon seems inevitable
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• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• Antonio Bolívar died on April 30th
• The British government fudges its employment-rights bill
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How India's imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
• Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
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• John Conway died on April 11th
• Some Germans think the hostage exchange with Russia was a dirty deal
• The cocaine trade is booming in Europe's Caribbean territories
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• Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot leave Israel's war cabinet
• The rape and murder of a doctor in India is fuelling outrage
• Meet the maharajas of the world's biggest democracy
• ASML's boss has a warning for Europe
• The broken business model of British universities
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• EA cancels Black Panther game and closes studio developing it
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• Michael Collins died on April 28th
• The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
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• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
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• Taiwan's president takes on alleged Chinese infiltration
• American office delinquencies are shooting up
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• Obituary: Robert McClelland died on September 10th
• Can Friedrich Merz get Europe out of its funk?
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• Catherine Hamlin died on March 18th
• The magic and the minefield of confidence
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• Ernesto Cardenal died on March 1st
• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
• Blighty newsletter: Starmer's silence puts the assisted-dying bill at risk
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• How YouTube Star Derek Muller of Veritasium Is Challenging Scientific Misconceptions and Exposing PFAS Contamination
• The trouble with reality in fiction
• Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
• Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary
• Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
• Xi Jinping worries that China's troops are not ready to fight
• For the first time, a CRISPR drug treats a child's unique mutation
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• In Trump Immigration Cases, It's One Thing in Public, Another in Court
• Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging
• The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia's economies
• Elon Musk's xAI goes after OpenAI
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• Stablecoins: the real crypto craze
• Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
• Ageism is rampant in Chinese companies
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• Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26
• Trump's first term coincided with a MAGA baby boom. Will his second?
• Mexico deploys 10,000 troops to the US border
• In praise of flag-shagging
• Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation?
• America's allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal
• Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals
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• Step inside The Economist's summer issue
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• Ex-Royal Marine remanded in custody over Liverpool parade collision
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• America and Ukraine agree on a minerals deal, a good omen for the peace process
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• The fightback against Javier Milei's radical reforms has begun
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• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• Why Women With Type 2 Diabetes Are Diagnosed Later Than Men
• Trump's brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before
• More borrowers turn to private markets for credit
• Protests are soaring, as China's workers demand their wages
• China rounds up Batman, Donald Trump and the Buddha
• Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
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• Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania
• Why Germany's watchmakers are worried about the AfD
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• At least 115 killed in floods in central Nigeria
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• Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme
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