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• Bolstering our sense of smell may reduce the risk of dementia
• Italy needs more migrants, but has trouble admitting it
• 'You better pray': Christian nationalist groups are mobilizing before the 2024 elections
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Will a fiscal mess thwart Japan's nascent economic growth?
• American states wrestle with how to treat severe mental illness
• Britain's probation service is in deep trouble
• Sony won't take away your PlayStation-bought Discovery shows after all
• Xi Jinping wants China to have better toilets
• Israel's offensive against Hamas enters its crucial stage
• 30 Best Online Co-Op Games (2023): Playstation, Xbox, PC, Switch
• Britain's chancellor offers tax cuts and fiscal trickery
• A wave of international rule-making threatens Caribbean tax havens
• Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become
• Narendra Modi's party sweeps in north and central India
• Inside the Schools Where Boys Can Be Boys
• The Chinese yuan is losing value, yet gaining ground
• America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence
• Good evening, Ms Bond. We've been expecting you
• Sticking together makes bacteria nearly invincible
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• How a 31-year-old hopes to fix Ukraine's state-owned defence giant
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• China's slowing economy, seen from ground level
• Why Kentucky's Democratic governor is heading for re-election
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Joe Biden will host Japan and South Korea's leaders at Camp David
• Why French women no longer wear high heels
• KAL's cartoon
• After a brutal campaign, Poland gets ready to vote
• American and Chinese scientists are decoupling, too
• 'Let's have a Sunderland Barbie': Leo Pearlman on his plan to build a new Hollywood on Wearside
• A Nobel prize for quantum dottiness
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
• Amazon, Starbucks worker unions are in limbo, even as UAW and others triumph
• The Belt and Road, as seen from China
• Step inside The Economist's summer issue
• Six-year-old boy put on wrong flight from Philadelphia to Florida
• How to inspire climate hope in kids? Get their hands dirty
• OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check
• The world's least liveable cities are starting to improve
• How the Gaza war affects Israel's minorities in different ways
• The best Nintendo Switch controllers for 2024
• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An unusual museum in China is dedicated to Vinegar Joe
• Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan, again
• Why African businesses take a DIY approach to selling online
• A clue to China's true covid-19 death toll
• The path ahead for China's Belt and Road Initiative
• Israel is pushing into southern Gaza as the clock ticks down
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• Jean-Jacques Sempé was an unparalleled observer of the human condition
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Is Japan's economy at a turning point?
• Reindeer Chew Their Food While Napping
• You Know It's a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
• Ukraine inches closer to joining the EU
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• A new book explains the tragic failure of Boeing's 737 MAX
• Business
• Finally, a Telescope Named 'Einstein' Is Heading to Space
• Haley Endorsement Marks Presidential Return of Koch Donor Network
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• Why rail electrification is so slow in Britain
• China's "demographic dividend" appears to be a myth
• OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check
• Rumours swirl after China's defence minister, Li Shangfu, is sacked
• Brazil's biggest drug gang has gone global
• How China's delivery drivers quietly fight to improve their lot
• What markets are trying to tell Europe—and why it should listen
• Undersea-Aged Champagne Is Starting to Surface
• China's claim to the South China Sea gets even odder
• Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
• Cashless talk
• Home Office Setup Guide (2023): Webcams, Desks, Chairs, and More
• U.S. Strikes Iran-Backed Groups in Iraq After Attack on Base Injures 3 Americans
• Does America have enough weapons to support its allies?
• America's next government shutdown could be the strangest yet
• Ray Dalio is a monster, suggests a new book. Is it fair?
• The Supreme Court's code of conduct is a good first step
• Tuvalu plans for its own disappearance
• SpaceX dominated private spaceflight in 2023, but its competitors (mostly) aren't quitting
• Teenager arrested after woman stabbed to death in south London
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
• A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science
• Xi Jinping's grip on Chinese enterprise gets uncomfortably tight
• North Korea is getting new ships
• Biden pleads the case for Israel, Ukraine—and American leadership
• America's states are trying to set rules for the internet
• Here's Scientific Proof Your Cat Will Eat Almost Anything
• NASA beamed a video of a cat named Taters from deep space to Earth
• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reduced poverty in Mexico
• It's Time to Take Another Look at Parole
• The Toxic Truth About Your Christmas Tree
• Personal Data Collection: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• How to avoid a common investment mistake
• A $3.8bn deal points to the future of car-parts suppliers
• Arturia just released a free unison-based multi-fx plugin
• Hebe de Bonafini lived through the lives of her sons
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• In Xi Jinping's China, central planners rule
• After 12 years of blood, Assad's Syria rejoins the Arab League
• Ron Galella, the original paparazzo, died on April 30th, aged 91
• China and the EU risk a trade war
• Latin America could become this century's commodity superpower
• New industrial policies will make the world more unequal
• The Dark Hedges are dying
• How to think about the Google anti-monopoly trial
• What's an Influencer? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Linpmem - A Physical Memory Acquisition Tool For Linux
• Can Israeli-Emirati business ties survive the Gaza war?
• Europe's economy is in a bad way. Policymakers need to react
• 'It feels very fun and freeing': US sees ebike boom after years of false starts
• Part of Donald Trump's base thinks he is fighting a spiritual war
• The FTC wants to strengthen COPPA to make it harder for companies to monetize kids' data
• Insomniac says it's 'saddened and angered' by massive leak of 1.3 million files
• Corporate America faces a trillion-dollar debt reckoning
• David Squires on … 23 people who defined football in 2023
• Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise
• A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine
• The invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war, but it is the most viral
• Lamborghini Revuelto 2024 Review, Specs, Price, Availability
• Britain must overhaul the way it approves infrastructure
• Mexico could elect its first female president next year
• How science will be transformed by AI
• ILPA's Jennifer Choi Predicts Greater Focus on Fund Terms, Debt Use in 2024
• Here's How to Create an Online IRS Account - CNET
• Israel's truce with Hamas is drawing to a close
• The Crypto Queen Pulling the Strings at Binance
• Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer's?
• Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement
• Energy Drinks Are Out of Control
• German judges toss a spanner into the government's spending plans
• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• Conservative towns in liberal American states want to ban abortion
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Brazil's hinterland now resembles Texas
• Meet the Japanese Kurds
• Which city is the cheapest in the world?
• China is obsessed with food security. Climate change will challenge it
• Americans Changed How They Invested in 2023. Here's How in Six Charts.
• The fading legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor, a trailblazing justice
• How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Ten Hag's fate may depend on ability to re-energise struggling Rashford | Ed Aarons
• 'A wild swimmer's paradise': the beach on top of a Yorkshire moor
• How to get African oil out of the ground without Western lenders
• A glimpse of the Conservative Party after Rishi Sunak
• The false promise of green jobs
• KAL's cartoon
• Kanye West apologises to Jewish community for 2022 antisemitic remarks
• The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
• England's NHS is trying once again to collate patients' data
• Banks shed 60,000 jobs in one of worst years for cuts since financial crisis
• 11 of the Best Walking Shoes for Women in 2023 - CNET
• Why China's rulers fear Genghis Khan
• Some forms of chronic pain are particularly mysterious
• North Korea's borders are creaking open
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
• Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive?
• From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
• Rohingya refugees return to the sea
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals
• Bibi Netanyahu is the wrong man in the wrong place
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Could Voters Conclude That Biden Is the Riskier Bet to Restore Order?
• America's Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch
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• What to make of a surprise shake-up in China's nuclear force
• Ukraine prepares for winter again as Russia targets its power grid
• Why India hopes to make it into more big financial indices
• The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people's hearts
• Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
• The lethal negligence of politicians in Morocco and Libya
• Best Internet Providers in Columbus, Ohio - CNET
• The next threat to commodity supplies will be El Niño
• The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
• Why US double standards on Israel and Russia play into a dangerous game
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• Cheer up, Sir Keir! It might never happen
• New Zealand tires of its cuddly liberal government
• End-to-End Encrypted Instagram and Messenger Chats: Why It Took Meta 7 Years
• A mercurial billionaire, Terry Gou, shakes up Taiwan's presidential race
• 6 Amazon Alexa Settings to Change for a Personalized Smart Home Experience - CNET
• He Stole Hundreds of iPhones and Looted People's Life Savings. He Told Us How.
• Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?
• Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
• Why the market for superyachts is booming
• Video games, power and diplomacy
• China's ties with America are warming, a bit
• Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?
• Elizabeth II never laid down the heavy weight of the crown
• Gina Lollobrigida's ambition was her strength and her weakness
• The best memes of 2021
• Google Just Denied Cops a Key Surveillance Tool
• Politics
• New industrial policies will not help economic stability
• What TikTok Is Showing America's Youth About the War in Gaza
• Best 4K Blu-Ray Players (2023): Sony, Panasonic and More
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• AMLO's austerity has hurt Mexico
• Argentina could get its first libertarian president
• Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are a blow to global trade
• Charlie Munger was a lot more than Warren Buffett's sidekick
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• How to master the art of delegation
• Are Canadian cities better than America's?
• Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial
• A risky cancer treatment can be modified to treat immune diseases
• India is seeing a massive aviation boom
• An FBI investigation raises questions about Eric Adams
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• The challenge of the age
• Italy's new government needs to make deep economic reforms
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom
• Franz Mohr was the man who made great concerts possible
• Is China understating its own export success?
• What Is Blockchain? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Mario Terán was the man sent to kill Che Guevara
• Gazans are rapidly losing access to the internet
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukraine's allies are scrambling to bolster its air defences
• Senegal's president asks if democracy can work in Africa's coup-belt
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Amid the grief and chaos of war, Ukraine's young women fill my soul with hope | Charlotte Higgins
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• The Morning After: Pornhub faces the same strict EU rules as social media platforms
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• Best Internet Providers for Unlimited Data - CNET
• Does Hamas want to keep fighting Israel or start talking peace?
• Journalists Had 'No Idea' About OpenAI's Deal to Use Their Stories
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky's highly methodical madness
• Germany's Christian Democrats are unsure whom to hug
• Joe Biden steers a risky course after a Gaza hospital blast
• These are the most liveable cities in Europe
• Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
• Are America's CEOs overpaid?
• Politics
• Far-right ideas are gaining a renewed respectability in France
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• Supply chains are back to normal. Why is inflation still so high?
• Tinder's $500 a Month Membership Tier Has Me Embracing Loneliness
• How confusing fetal-personhood laws in America affect hospitals
• Could AI help find valuable mineral deposits?
• Inside Hamas's sprawling financial empire
• Myanmar's junta suffers startling defeats
• The Senate blocked aid for Ukraine. Now what?
• KAL's cartoon
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• The Hollywood Strikes Stopped AI From Taking Your Job. But for How Long?
• Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping
• EU Investigates Elon Musk's X for Spreading Illegal Content
• The spat with India only adds to Justin Trudeau's woes
• Everything about carmaking is changing at once
• Abu Dhabi throws a surprise challenger into the AI race
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Ukraine's bloody battlefield is teaching medics
• SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
• Kevin McCarthy's sacking deepens the chaos in American government
• Could AI transform science itself?
• Chinese apps are a mixed blessing for American big tech
• It's OK to gerrymander, as long you discriminate by politics
• Minimum-wage workers in 22 states will be getting raises on Jan. 1
• Apple to Halt Watch Sales as It Prepares to Comply With U.S. Import Ban
• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
• The costs of Russia's war are about to hit home
• The future lies with electric vehicles
• New Yelp Has Earned Its Extra Stars
• A national milk-carton shortage sours America's dairy industry
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Big pharma can't get enough of one class of cancer drugs
• McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the 'Smoking Gun' That Killed Their Startup
• How Taiwan is shaped by its history and identity
• The Indian business of blowing things up is booming
• Bowel cancer is rising among young people
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• London's riotous pedicabs are about to be regulated
• Does a civil-war-era ban on insurrectionists apply to Donald Trump?
• Is there a genetic link between endometriosis and the brain?
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• Attacks on shipping threaten to upend peace talks in Yemen
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• A mysterious attack in northern Kosovo rattles everyone
• Is Argentina's new president too divisive to fix a broken economy?
• Mint Mobile says hackers accessed customer information during a security breach
• The culture wars have come to Canada
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Pornhub owner pays US government $1.8M to resolve sex trafficking probe
• A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
• Xi Jinping is trying to fuse the ideologies of Marx and Confucius
• China is struggling to recruit enough highly skilled troops
• How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
• Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
• Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
• Why economists are at war over inequality
• How health-care costs stopped rising
• China's deep-water fishing fleet is the world's most rapacious
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• China has embraced pets, but animal welfare is still a problem
• Jedi Survivor Was the Best of Star Wars We Got This Year
• Louisiana Creole is enjoying a modest revival
• The Van Gogh Museum showcases a rejected early masterpiece
• How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
• Christmas Day Deals at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and More to Shop Today - CNET
• Why Britain has a unique problem with economic inactivity
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• How China sees Gaza
• Inside the banter-industrial complex
• For All Mankind Is the Best Show You Aren't Watching, But Why?
• Why fewer university students are studying Mandarin
• One response to school shootings in America: arm the teachers
• Sri Lankans are squabbling over monuments
• War has arrived in Crimea
• The 2 Senate Democrats fighting for reelection in states where Trump dominates
• How to Check If Something Online Was Written by AI
• C2-Search-Netlas - Search For C2 Servers Based On Netlas
• Hsiao Bi-khim is Taiwan's cat warrior
• Three climate fights will dominate COP28
• Latin America's most powerful new gang built a human-trafficking empire
• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• Seven years after a terrorist attack, Nice has rebuilt itself
• You Know It's a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
• Escalating Iran-backed attacks against global commercial shipping in the Red Sea have heightened pressure on the Biden administration as officials scramble to protect trade while trying to avoid a direct confrontation with Tehran.
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• What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• The OG Mickey Mouse Finally Hits the Public Domain Next Week
• Waving a Red Flag at Bond Bulls
• Harvard Has a Veritas Problem
• We Aren't Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?
• Decoding Your Hunger During the Holidays
• The deaths-of-despair narrative is out of date
• A supposed haven in Sudan falls to a genocidal militia
• The Holy Grail of Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. Or Is It?
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• Apple is reportedly looking to team up with news publishers to train its AI
• Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?
• Porch-Pirate - The Most Comprehensive Postman Recon / OSINT Client And Framework That Facilitates The Automated Discovery And Exploitation Of API Endpoints And Secrets Committed To Workspaces, Collections, Requests, Users And Teams
• The new economy net zero needs
• Why investors cannot escape China exposure
• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• Why doctors in America earn so much
• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• Britain's Labour Party embraces supply-side social democracy
• Sondheim Was a Critical Darling. Since His Death, He's a Hitmaker, Too.
• What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago
• How to kill a goose quickly
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• Geert Wilders's Dutch election win is a headache for Europe
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• The ancient Eleusinian mysteries get a new incarnation
• Midsized US accounting firms retreat from public company audits
• You Can Fix the Most Annoying iOS 17 Features on Your iPhone - CNET
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
• Data on air bases suggest a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may not be imminent
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• The Gaza war has deepened Joe Biden's Iran nightmare
• The 56 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now
• An enormous—and unexpected—lump of granite has been found on the Moon
• Retailers Are Bracing for Their Postholiday Returns Hangover
• Gang violence is spreading across Latin America
• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
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• Liz Truss and Jeremy Corbyn still haunt British politics
• GM stops Chevy Blazer EV sales after early software problems
• APIDetector - Efficiently Scan For Exposed Swagger Endpoints Across Web Domains And Subdomains
• The Bob Iger v Nelson Peltz rematch
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• The 46 Best Movies on Netflix This Week
• Webb Spots Ancient Supernova in a Gravitational Lens
• Anthropic Could Be Headed for an OpenAI-Style Showdown
• Crazy policies and climate change are hurting Latin American agriculture
• A rotting warship becomes a flashpoint for Sino-American rivalry
• The economics of pumpkin patches
• How Liberia and Sierra Leone ended their cycles of violence
• Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas's tunnels
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
• The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world
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• An Israeli airstrike killed 22 of my relatives, but I refuse to hate – video
• The EU is finally rebooting the enlargement machine
• Boston's "cradle of liberty" was paid for with slavery profits
• Erdogan's empire
• A new psychological history of the cold war
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• From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
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• California cracks down on carbon
• Telegram-Nearby-Map - Discover The Location Of Nearby Telegram Users
• Godzilla Minus One's Director Is Open to a Sequel
• Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
• Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro's influence
• A Trump Conviction Could Cost Him Enough Voters to Tip the Election
• Brazil environment minister demands 'ceiling' on oil production
• Meet Flip, the Viral Video App Giving Away Free Stuff
• What a third world war would mean for investors
• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• Donald Tusk must undo years of populist subversion in Poland
• Labour's screw-ups reveal how the party will govern Britain
• Portugal's prime minister resigns over a corruption scandal
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• The Uncanny Experience of Year-End Roundups
• Swimming's ruling on transgender women continues a trend
• A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third
• The Best TV Shows You Missed in 2023—and Where to Watch Them
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever
• The temptations of deferred removals
• A Hamas leader refuses to admit his group planned to kill civilians
• The 2023 Nobel prizes honour work that touched millions of lives
• 5 Best Rain Jackets (2023): Cheap, Eco-Friendly, Hiking, and Running
• Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
• Japan needs more sperm donors
• The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how
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• The undeclared race to replace Emmanuel Macron
• British Billionaire Strikes Deal to Acquire Minority Stake in Manchester United
• Ukraine Is Crowdfunding Its Reconstruction
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• Severe drought is constraining the Panama Canal
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• Ukraine's new enemy: war fatigue in the West
• McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the 'Smoking Gun' That Killed Their Startup
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• By averting a government shutdown, Kevin McCarthy risks his job
• Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
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• The post-Title-42 lull in border crossings is over
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• Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome
• Israel faces the danger of fighting on a second front
• After WeWork's fall, what next for SoftBank?
• Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
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• Japan's porn industry comes out of the shadows
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• Milan Kundera believed that truth lay in endless questioning
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• The rise of Britain's new nanny state
• Even when he glitters, Sir Keir Starmer still struggles to shine
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
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• Did America thwart an Indian assassination plot?
• A Chinese opera star's ode to Russia—from a Ukrainian bomb site
• Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
• It is time to divert Taiwan's trade and investment from China
• Britain's national parks are not protecting nature
• Virtual influencers are burning up South Koreans' Instagram feeds
• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• Ehud Barak blames Binyamin Netanyahu for "the greatest failure in Israel's history"
• Political instability in Italy has always affected reform
• Nigella Lawson says she is too self-conscious to say 'microwave'
• China sidelines its once venerated central bank
• Worrying about your festive BMI? You may not need to
• Video: Busting globalisation myths
• A vision for the Palestinians after the war
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Santa swim and yoga at sunrise: the weekend before Christmas in photos
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities
• Aston Martin and Porsche tease 2024 models running next-gen Apple CarPlay
• The best books we read in 2023
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• When should Rishi Sunak call the next British election?
• A Phone That Lasts a Decade? Sounds Too Good to Be True
• The Mexican president's latest boondoggle officially opens
• Post-Brexit Britain is splurging more on state aid
• Regulatory changes hint at what might be in store in a second Biden term
• Northern China has been hit by devastating floods
• The Case for Kwanzaa
• Can Argentina's next president fix the economy? Don't count on it
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India's Supreme Court refuses to recognise same-sex marriage
• Can Europe's power grid cope with the green transition?
• Was your degree really worth it?
• The old have come to dominate American politics
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• China's government launches a campaign against medical corruption
• Another crypto boss falls
• Instead of undoing Ataturk's legacy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed it
• China will become less populous, more productive—and more pricey
• The renewables business faces a make-or-break moment
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• India's property market is ready for take-off
• Hamas's carnage upends Joe Biden's plans for the Middle East
• How Mama Octopus and her female fishing crew make waves saving Kenya's reefs
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• In Turkey, Erdogan's charges of Western hypocrisy stick
• Amid turmoil in China's property market, the public seethes
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• How a sombre mood gripped Europe
• Afghanistan's terrible earthquakes
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• Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Netanyahu's handling of the hostage crisis enrages Israelis
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
• China wants women to stay home and bear children
• Two women are vying to be Mexico's next president
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• What will Indonesia look like after Jokowi leaves?
• Antisemitism surges in France after the Hamas attacks on Israel
• Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
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• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan's relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
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• Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient
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• The uncertain future of Greeks in Turkey
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• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• America's House of Representatives finally has a speaker
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• Khalifa Haftar will use Libya's floods to deepen his control
• A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America
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