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• Little Richard died on May 9th
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• Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure
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• Some corals are better at handling the heat
• Ukraine's warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south
• The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin
• Live results of the US presidential election
• The saviour complex
• Canada has a shortage of lifeguards
• We might not be getting that handheld Xbox for some time
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• Who was the best CEO of 2024?
• Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
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• The trouble with ancient Indians
• India's broadcast media wage war on their audience
• Locust-busting is getting an upgrade
• Sudan's national army is on the brink of retaking the capital
• The moment I knew: he lost an election, but he was still smiling
• Prabowo Subianto's economic policy is weakening Indonesia
• How Yahya Sinwar's death will change the Middle East
• 2024's biggest revolution may yet devour its children
• Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflation
• Canada's wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
• What are the odds of an upset in Texas or Florida?
• Britain's second-world-war veterans are dying out
• Mohammad Reza Shajarian died on October 8th
• Why orange juice has never been more expensive
• Cheap fixes could help 450m people stand taller and think quicker
• Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
• What a Christian theatre town can teach Trump's Kennedy Centre
• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
• Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond
• Rolls-Royce Strikes Contract to Supply Nuclear Reactors for U.K. Submarines
• Unexpectedly, the cost of big cyber-attacks is falling
• Should all knives with pointed ends be banned?
• Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this year
• Franz Mohr was the man who made great concerts possible
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents
• Nvidia Supplier SK Hynix Posts Record Profit on AI Boom
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• The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
• Meet the most ruthless CEO in the trillion-dollar tech club
• Brazil courts China as its Musk feud erupts again
• Tensions with the West are fuelling China's anxiety about food supplies
• DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley
• One of Assad's mass graves is found, with as many as 100,000 bodies
• The story of Britain's "ginaissance"
• The Sonos Era 300 is 20 percent off in this home speaker sale
• Italy is trying to deal with its demographic decline
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• Benjamina Ebuehi's recipe for glazed cinnamon focaccia | The sweet spot
• One way to turbocharge the Chinese economy
• The super-rich are trying new approaches to philanthropy
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• Best Fitness Trackers of 2025 for Peak Performance
• How to inspire people
• Could Kamikawa Yoko be Japan's next prime minister?
• The judge losing his patience with the Trump administration
• Netanyahu is about to discover if Trump is friend or foe
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's Supreme Court considers what a woman is
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• Is Using a Stair Machine the Same as Climbing Stairs?
• The Liberal Party's polling surge is Canada's largest ever
• Why Uruguayans rejected a government splurge
• Musk Inc is under serious threat
• ZOE, a British personal-nutrition app, is growing fast
• Russia's double-punch back against Ukraine's shock raid
• How Asia's wild west shakes up the modern world
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• How to watch the Latin American Games Showcase at Summer Game Fest 2025
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Predictions for the Democrats' future
• Chinese hackers are getting bigger, better and stealthier
• Duelling arguments take shape in the TikTok-ban case
• Did Donald Trump wilfully defy a court order?
• Cambridge yimbies
• Obituary: Qassem Suleimani was assassinated on January 3rd
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The power and limits of Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic charm
• The best, and worst, American cities for upward mobility
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China
• A disabled mom's message to parents: We all need help, and it's OK to ask for it
• Joe Biden and Xi Jinping rediscover the joy of talking. Good
• If Venezuela's elections were fair, this would be the front-runner
• America is turning away China's goods. Where will they go instead?
• Why some countries are once again embracing cluster bombs
• Myanmar's earthquake piles misery on civil war
• Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals
• Will India's new government turbocharge the fight against poverty?
• Paying teenagers to go to school was a bad idea
• Germany is going nuts for Dubai chocolate
• Israel has bloodied Hizbullah but is stuck in a war of attrition
• As Jack Smith exits, Donald Trump's allies hint at retribution
• DOGE shutters the government's in-house tech consultancy
• The proper study of mankind
• Lily Ebert lived to share her story of Auschwitz
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Myanmar's junta chief finally goes to China
• Eight charts illustrate 2023's extreme weather
• Justin Trudeau is killing Canada's liberal dream
• The great-man theory of Wall Street
• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
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• Álvaro Mangino survived a plane crash by eating his companions
• Yes sir: a bizarre initiation ritual for Indonesia's cabinet
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• One Big Beautiful Bill Act Called a Clean Energy 'Nightmare Scenario'
• Why your portfolio is less diversified than you might think
• The mystery of India's female labour-force participation rate
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• Five charts compare Democrats and Republicans on job creation
• KAL's cartoon
• A landslip in Hong Kong fuels resentment of the rich
• China makes love and war with Taiwan
• Has China reached peak emissions?
• China hits back hard against Trump's tariffs
• North Korea Stole Your Job
• How to get money from Ebenezer Scrooge
• Bangladesh's economic progress may have been hyped
• Latin American society is modernising, mostly for the better
• Milan Kundera believed that truth lay in endless questioning
• Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
• What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
• Tech Bro Had to Go
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• Medicaid Cuts Will Make Older People Sicker
• Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power
• Is your master's degree useless?
• Could Europe replace Starlink if America pulls the plug?
• "The Traitors", a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson
• The energy transition will be expensive
• An election win boosts Javier Milei's reform project
• Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran's wars
• The warm glow
• How the global south forgot its own birthday
• Argentina's Javier Milei is betting big on an oil gusher
• British "equal value" lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets
• Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans
• Travel chaos will last well beyond summer
• Venezuela's sound of silence
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• A tonne of public debt is never made public
• Israel and Hamas have something in common
• Why Chinese mourn Li Keqiang, their former prime minister
• Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
• The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
• Kash Patel, Donald Trump's wizard, wants to reform the FBI
• It's not just AI. China's medicines are surprising the world, too
• At 70, the global convention on refugees is needed more than ever
• George Floyd was killed on May 25th
• Obituary: Paul Volcker died on December 8th
• Israel and Hizbullah creep closer to all-out war
• White House investigating how Trump's chief of staff's phone was hacked
• Intel's troubles deepen, as its boss makes an abrupt exit
• It is dangerously easy to hack the world's phones
• "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" show that blockbusters could save the cinema
• The American and Russian right are aligning
• Trump's tariff pain: the growing evidence
• China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?
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• Is America giving Narendra Modi an easy ride?
• New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin
• Warren Buffett has created a $348bn question for his successor
• The 46 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (June 2025)
• Diagnosing Male Infertility with Adhesion Test That Captures Sperm Motility
• Russia's army is being subordinated to its security services
• Government by social media in Somalia
• How bad are the current market jitters?
• The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
• A nationalist effort to rebrand the Chinese dragon
• Martin Graham was determined to see his dream come true
• Will Donald Trump now pardon the January 6th rioters?
• Pity the superstar fashion designer
• Why "labour shortages" don't really exist
• What makes Europe so liveable?
• Measure less, but better
• American politics prompt some Chinese to explore historical taboos
• Labour's budget has given the bond market indigestion
• What does the Australian submarine deal mean for non-proliferation?
• Financial markets are betting on a Trump victory
• Which goods are most vulnerable to American tariffs on China?
• Female soldiers are changing how armed forces work
• How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From 'Regulate Us' to 'Unleash Us'
• American inflation looks increasingly worrying
• In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendant
• Nawal El-Saadawi died on March 21st
• What on earth is what3words?
• White House denials over the Signal snafu ring hollow
• The rape and murder of a doctor in India is fuelling outrage
• China's alarming sex imbalance
• Can you breathe stress away?
• Loretta Swit obituary
• Corporate America's diversity wars are just getting started
• America's trade hawks fear the gaps in Trump's tariff wall
• Illegal gold is booming in South America
• Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrong
• Dogs really do look and act just like their owners
• Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest
• A Helicopter, Halibut, and 'Y.M.C.A': Inside Donald Trump's Memecoin Dinner
• India has quietly transformed its ports
• US House of Representatives elections: live results
• Joss Naylor never let any mountain defeat him
• What Trump's new antitrust enforcers mean for business
• Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
• Republicans are turning against Ukraine
• Paul Alexander lived longer than anyone in an iron lung
• This HP 17″ Laptop (64GB RAM, 2TB SSD) Is Nearly Free, Amazon Slashes 75% Off and Adds $400 in Free Bonuses
• South Africa's government is looking fragile
• Can Starbucks be turned around?
• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• Airbus has not taken full advantage of Boeing's weakness
• The world has to adapt to the climate change it will not avoid
• A stealth attack came close to compromising the world's computers
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• A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms
• 3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
• Canada has finally decided where to store its nuclear waste
• Ericsson Shares Slump as Earnings Hit by Weakness Outside of Core Networks Business
• The matadors' last stand in Colombia
• Turkey is trying to deport Syrian refugees back to a war zone
• 'The soul of Irish traditional music': a musical journey through County Clare
• Vladimir Putin fires a new missile to amplify his nuclear threats
• Peter Thiel doubles down on patriotism in the Trump era
• The agenda for the COP 26 summit
• Elon Musk threatens to widen the rift between Europe and America
• KAL's cartoon
• Xi Jinping may try to woo the victims of Donald Trump's tariffs
• Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
• What a Republican trifecta will mean for governing
• Demand for American degrees is sinking
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ten years on from Scotland's independence referendum
• Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug
• What price cool? $31 a month, according to students
• Wang Fuchun died on March 13th
• Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse
• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• China's carbon emissions may have peaked
• How to build tram lines quickly and cheaply
• Protests are the last thing keeping Turkey's democracy alive
• Israel and the Houthis trade bombs and bluster
• Five reasons why Indonesia's election matters
• Floods in Nigeria's north-east are aggravating a humanitarian crisis
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Racial categorisation has grown more complex in America
• Texas looks set to pass America's biggest school-voucher scheme
• The fate of minorities in post-Assad Syria
• Chinese feminists are rebuilding their movement abroad
• Far-right ideas are gaining a renewed respectability in France
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's enormous surveillance state is still growing
• Trump for Dummies
• American productivity still leads the world
• KAL's cartoon
• Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
• Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan's better dictators
• Where next for Britain's broken National Health Service?
• How Italy's Mezzogiorno is benefiting from a flood of EU aid
• How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's foreign aid pause puts lives at risk
• Where the Trump administration has science on its side
• Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
• Indonesia's macho new leader is no "cuddly grandpa"
• Hummingbirds Are Evolving to Adapt to Life With Humans
• How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change
• Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
• The West's armies are getting more serious about climate change
• Canada to Provide $720 Million to Canada Post to Avoid Insolvency at Mail Service
• Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration as America's attorney-general
• Asfaw Yemiru died on May 8th
• The limits of Turkey's strategic autonomy
• A new diplomatic struggle is unfolding over Taiwan
• Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's savvy dealmaker
• Ethiopia and Somalia claim to have settled a dangerous feud
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• What the world thinks of Trump, Ukraine and Chinese supremacy
• Canadians are starting to sour on migration
• The science that built the AI revolution
• AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• This week's covers
• China's probe returns from the far side of the moon
• Britain's government has spooked markets and riled businesses
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Which languages take the longest to learn?
• This week's covers
• Indians have grown used to getting nice things from politicians
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• The private sector won't save America's Indo-Pacific policy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Trump's trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
• Hamas's pick of Yahya Sinwar as leader makes a ceasefire less likely
• Cities used to sprawl. Now they're growing taller
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The weekly cartoon
• This week's cover
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
• AI models are helping dirty industries go green
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why financial markets are so oddly calm
• How Britain decides which drugs to buy
• Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
• Meet the incels and anti-feminists of Asia
• France is not alone in its fiscal woes
• Eavan Boland died on April 27th
• Putin's plan to dethrone the dollar
• Freed Israeli Hostages Still Had Shrapnel in Their Bodies From Oct. 7 Attack
• The data hinted at racism among white doctors. Then scholars looked again
• Can Israel's economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?
• New industrial policies will make the world more unequal
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
• No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• Trump is a problem for Europe's most important hard-right leaders
• The British state is blind
• Welcome to India, where the streets have four names
• Chinese officials are encouraging office workers not to work so hard
• Why is it so hard for Indians to get a visa?
• Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online
• Attempts to make supply chains "resilient" are likely to fail
• The MAGA revolution threatens America's most innovative place
• Could you pass the British citizenship test?
• Germany's border controls are annoying the neighbours
• China's persecution of Uyghurs extends to those it once favoured
• Not all European business is a profitless wasteland
• Obituary: Graham Vick believed glorious music belonged to everyone
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation
• Is She Really Mad at Me? Maybe ChatGPT Knows
• Can anything rouse Germany from its economic slumber?
• Japan could finally face its own #MeToo crisis
• Edible rats are China's latest live-streaming stars
• A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence
• The sweet story of Peru's blueberry boom
• Li Wenliang died on February 7th
• A Faustian pact with the Houthis
• Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
• A much-praised British scheme to help disabled workers is failing them
• Youngsters are fleeing Japan's once-mighty civil service
• The weekly cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again
• Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
• The cover-up is worse than the group chat
• The demographic detail of Donald Trump's victory
• Checks and Balance: Can the tech elite and MAGA come together?
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador's mañaneras boost his presidency
• Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?
• Le Chat, the cat-bot France has pinned its AI hopes on
• Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?
• North Korea is remarkably entrenched in global supply chains
• Jan Morris died on November 20th
• How Poland emerged as a leading defence power
• What happened at COP26?
• Violence mars Mexicans' biggest elections ever
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Matt Gaetz v the ethics committee
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Even priests need the free market
• Can India's garments industry benefit from Bangladesh's turmoil?
• Meet Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso's retro revolutionary
• Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right
• Cuba is out of supplies and out of ideas
• Will Trump's tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?
• The pandemic will spur the worldwide growth of private tutoring
• The self-help book began in the land of the stiff upper lip
• Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis?
• Business
• Mauro Morandi needed to abandon consumer society
• Sliding back
• Lata Mangeshkar was the soundtrack of newly independent India
• This week China could rethink its economic policy
• How to swerve Donald Trump's tariffs
• The Middle East braces for wider war as Iran weighs its response
• Nvidia is fighting both Trump and China
• Much of Russia's intellectual elite has fled the country
• Anybody in Britain can call themselves a therapist
• Casinos are booming in South-East Asia
• Joe Biden lifts sanctions on Venezuela, but not without conditions
• Can anything stop America's superstar hedge funds?
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• EU Conditionally Approves International Paper's $7.16 Billion DS Smith Buy
• Ernesto Cardenal died on March 1st
• India has a chance to cure its investment malaise
• Obituary: Steve Sawyer died on July 31st
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• Guatemala's election produces a pleasant surprise
• What the First Results from the Global Flourishing Study Tell Us about Age, Employment and Partnership
• Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
• Will the West betray or save anti-Putin protesters in Georgia?
• Supply chains are back to normal. Why is inflation still so high?
• Donald Trump's victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies
• Some Australians are increasingly sceptical of AUKUS
• Undocumented man accused of making threat to Trump's life may be victim of frame-up
• How Trump might topple the dollar
• The Senate blocked aid for Ukraine. Now what?
• Germans are growing cold on the debt brake
• Sir Keir Starmer finds a role
• America's Gen Z has got religion
• An interview with Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria's president
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is militarising public security
• Suicide rates for girls are rising. Are smartphones to blame?
• Simon Mann was the go-to guy for military coups and bespoke warfare
• The people of Hong Kong are growing more tolerant
• Afrobeats' new groove
• Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode
• Why judges were wrong to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger
• How a mortgage transforms your investment portfolio
• Satellite data show Ukraine's forces are testing Russia's defences
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• How overt religiosity became cool in India
• Are hits like "Adolescence" good or bad for Britain?
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• How physics can improve image-generating AI
• Governing the atmosphere
• Ukraine's army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth
• Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
• What the history of money tells you about crypto's future
• Myanmar's junta is losing ever more ground
• Meet Trump's fiercest opponent: the bond market
• The Quad finally gets serious on security
• Which parts of the world are becoming more prone to wildfires?
• Investors rely more and more on higher returns from private markets
• Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina?
• The race for the Bundestag
• June 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
• A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president
• China and Bhutan aim to resolve a long-running border dispute
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
• Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
• The French government's survival is now in Socialist hands
• China's battery giant eyes world domination
• America's Democrats should embrace "abundance liberalism"
• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
• The Taliban is removing every shred of freedom from women
• Right-wing Britons are turning to e-petitions
• The signals of workplace submissiveness
• A fraying system
• This week's covers
• Australia is no longer lucky
• How Mexico and Canada handled Trump's tariff threat
• How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine?
• Why China is awash in unwanted milk
• Angela who? Merkel's legacy looks increasingly terrible
• Verizon Results Boosted by Higher Prices, Gain in Wireless Customers
• Women warriors and the war on woke
• Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI
• The business of nicknames
• The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new technologies
• American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits
• KAL's cartoon
• Why are cities in Latin America getting more expensive?
• PwC needs to rethink its global governance
• A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
• U.S. Treasury Yields Fall But Direction for Long-End Yields Still Seen Upward
• What happens if the Inflation Reduction Act goes away?
• Afghans are suffering. Don't expect any tears from the Taliban
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Poland's new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look
• The 44 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (May 2025)
• Alaska Man Survives Being Pinned Face Down by a 700-Pound Boulder
• A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
• Donald Trump is throttling America's oil industry
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• So far, mass deportation has been more rhetoric than reality
• A gruesome murder sparks a debate about juvenile justice in China
• Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations
• Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
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• Drifting away from your friends? Here are 10 questions to bring you closer
• How squid could help people get over their needle phobia
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• 'In his company you could not be lazy': remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
• Mexico and Canada brace for Donald Trump's tariff thrashing
• Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine's front line is crumbling
• Trump knocks down a controversial pillar of civil-rights law
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• In Trump Immigration Cases, It's One Thing in Public, Another in Court
• Ukraine is a booming market for Balkan arms makers
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump's scheming is costing America
• Rick Derringer obituary
• Why are Chinese soldiers fighting in Ukraine?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What it means to be illiquid
• The chimera of private finance for development
• Why Narendra Modi has embraced an anti-caste icon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Germany's populist superstar demands peace with Russia
• A tussle for control of Interpol pits good cops against bad
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A Prague-Berlin train loses its old-world dining cars
• How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs
• NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI's 'dirty data center'
• Speeches in Britain's Parliament are getting shorter—and worse
• The rebuilding of Berlin's Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
• A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How (and why) J.D. Vance does it
• Britons are keener than ever to bring back lost and rare species
• What ChatGPT's corporate victims have in common
• Britain's rushed, muddled intervention in the steel industry
• ExpressVPN review 2025: Fast speeds and a low learning curve
• The African investment environment is at its worst in years
• Microplastics have not yet earned their bad reputation
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Narendra Modi needs to win over low-income Indians
• Why Gen Z Doesn't Like Opening Bar Tabs
• Britain's budget watchdog has ruffled feathers in Westminster
• Josep Almudéver died on May 23rd
• The Gaza ceasefire is stoking violence in the West Bank
• Brexit was wrong, say 57% of British voters
• Tom Homan, unleashed
• How to get rich in 2025
• Who is supplying Russia's arms industry?
• Will the trouble ever end for Volkswagen and its rivals?
• Chris Hemsworth's Oddly Timed Thor Video Freaks Out 'Avengers: Doomsday' Fans
• Haiti's transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
• Bill Gates on His Meeting With Trump, Musk's DOGE, His Childhood
• China's leaders reveal their plan to cope with 2025
• Larry Kramer died on May 27th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 2023 was the hottest year ever
• What can the world's most walkable cities teach other places?
• A fight over a cloister in tourist-filled Florence
• The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia's economies
• What has four stomachs and could change the world?
• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• By raising the retirement age, has China created a care crisis?
• Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump's economic policy?
• Why global bond markets are convulsing
• Russian exiles are making a mark in the Caucasus and Central Asia
• Which countries provide the most, and least, support to Ukraine?
• Does Dallas offer a vision of America's future?
• Obituary: Terry O'Neill died on November 16th
• If India chokes less, it will fry more
• Narendra Modi faces a new threat: his Hindu-nationalist patrons
• The future could be brighter
• Will European business turn away from America?
• YouTube in Africa offers a new kind of news
• Money trees
• How China's political clans might determine its future
• The Israel-Iran standoff in maps
• The Britain-India trade deal is a sign of things to come
• Upper legislative houses tend to be biased and malapportioned
• Estate agents in China are trying everything to sell flats
• The New York Public Library mines its archive of 56m objects
• What Elon Musk's tweets about sex abuse reveal about British politics
• Talk of war between Israel and Lebanon is growing
• How China became cool
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• Joe Biden orders his spooks to investigate the origins of covid-19
• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
• How American bankers dodged the MAGA carnage
• Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite
• Obituary: Sir Roger Scruton died on January 12th
• Leo XIV will pose some tricky problems for Giorgia Meloni
• Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs are absurd
• "Bonsoir l'Europe!" How languages affect Eurovision scores
• The most conservative place in Britain
• A by-election loss puts Justin Trudeau on the ropes
• Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
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• For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point
• Could supersonic air travel make a comeback?
• A guide to using Edits, Meta's new CapCut rival for short-form video editing
• 'Worrying is my hobby': Shura on overcoming injuries, writer's block and being dropped twice by her label
• Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky
• NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover
• Ministrokes Can Be Just as Dangerous for the Brain as Regular Strokes
• The pope phoned a priest in Gaza every day
• Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel?
• A shambolic leak reveals Team Trump's contempt for allies
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• British women thrived under remote working
• The rapid loss of Antarctic sea ice brings grim scenarios into view
• Can Big Oil run in reverse?
• Steven Weinberg died on July 23rd
• MAGA is already rewiring American education
• DOGE comes to England's health service
• What happens when a hegemon falls?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Is Net Neutrality? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Why being wrong is good for you
• Why some tycoons are speeding up their charity
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• The danger of relying on OpenAI's Deep Research
• Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are forging a tight link
• China views America's presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
• Madeleine Albright saw herself as an ambassador for freedom
• KAL's cartoon
• Obituary: Robert Mugabe died on September 6th
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• The death of Iran's president will spark a high-stakes power struggle
• Young men in Spain love the hardline Vox
• This week's covers
• Intrigue and attacks as the papal conclave begins
• Ethiopia gets a stockmarket. Now it just needs some firms to list
• The "Venice of Africa" is sinking into the sea
• Police brutality is not stopping Georgia's protests
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Will Hamas turn from war to politics?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly