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• Australia's enthusiasm for immigration is being tested
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• What economists have learnt from the post-pandemic business cycle
• The three steps on America's ladder of military escalation
• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
• Over a million Paraguayans disappear in the latest census
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Taiwan's dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
• A digital payments revolution in India
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Microsoft-Powered Chatbot Is Back Online
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the Bromance Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman Turned Toxic
• Chinese national arrested and charged with stealing AI trade secrets from Google
• Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last
• Green protectionism comes with big risks
• Narendra Modi and the art of claiming credit
• New York Community Bancorp to Get More Than $1 Billion Investment
• A guide to the Chinese Communist Party's economic jargon
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• Congress might just pass an astonishingly sensible tax deal
• Taiwan's opposition parties are struggling to unite
• 'The world became so loud': what it's like to suddenly lose your hearing
• Has America really escaped inflation?
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material
• Having a low income is like being a kid again – though now every expense comes with guilt | Deirdre Fidge
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• The old have come to dominate American politics
• Sandra Day O'Connor specialised in breaking into male bastions
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• Florida Surgeon General Risks Making a Dangerous Measles Outbreak Much Worse
• SEC braces for lawsuits from supporters and critics of climate rule
• Israel strikes a hostage deal but promises the Gaza war isn't over
• How the young should invest
• Digital Books Shouldn't Count As Screen Time
• English football's financial fracas
• ReelShort is the latest Chinese export to conquer America
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Biden Promised Calm After Trump Chaos, but the World Has Not Cooperated
• How to restore Britons' confidence in the police
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• KAL's cartoon
• Colonies of bacteria could save the Pentagon billions
• AI can catalogue a forest's inhabitants simply by listening
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey
• Republican primaries poll tracker: can anyone beat Donald Trump?
• How American journalism lets down readers and voters
• Artists, children, sex workers: Christer Strömholm's sympathetic street scenes – in pictures
• New York sends National Guard troops to patrol subway after attacks
• Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
• The US Congress remains far from the finish line of a budget deal
• One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth
• Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care
• Ukraine releases footage appearing to show sinking of Russian warship near occupied Crimea – video
• U.S. Defeat in Micron Trade-Secrets Case Reveals Struggle Countering Beijing
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• Why British police should focus on victims
• Rishi Sunak's pyrrhic victory on Rwanda
• Business
• The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches
• Inside the Spectocracy
• AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress
• An inspiring, if frustrating, portrayal of the Williams sisters' coach and dad
• The Gaza war has deepened Joe Biden's Iran nightmare
• Why politicians are obsessed with mythical Chinese land grabs
• Why Tech Job Interviews Became Such a Nightmare
• MH370: key moments in the search for missing Malaysian flight – video
• The super-rich are trying new approaches to philanthropy
• Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine
• Mexico's president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
• How one pandemic made another one worse
• American stocks loiter near an all-time high
• Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: BlackCat Hackers Quickly Returned After FBI Bust
• An espionage case hurts Chinese relations with Australia
• The New Super Sentai Show Asks 'What If Fast and Furious Actually Had Superheroes?'
• South Korea's ban on praising the North is ridiculous
• House Republicans fear Trump too much to aid Ukraine
• Outrage against femicide is spreading in Italy
• Israel's truce with Hamas is drawing to a close
• Europe decides it doesn't like lab-grown meat before it's tried it
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• Geert Wilders's election win leaves the Dutch in an awful quandary
• Asia's E-Commerce Battlefield Is Expanding Fast
• Facebook, Instagram Coming Back Online, White House Monitoring the Major Outage
• Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing
• Israel's judge in The Hague is its government's bogeyman
• Business
• JPMorgan pursued Discover deal before Capital One's $35bn offer
• What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• The many prices of carbon dioxide
• A mounting crisis of confidence confronts Olaf Scholz
• Everything about carmaking is changing at once
• America's most powerful union leaders don't want what you think
• The bosses of OpenAI and Microsoft talk to The Economist
• The Economist's finance and economics internship
• Joe Biden's failures on trade benefit China
• Some British universities have become remarkably racially diverse
• Muhammad Amir Muhammad Khan fought India's government for five decades
• The Greatest App of All Time Day 6: YouTube vs. Words With Friends
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• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• Could AI transform science itself?
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
• Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• Why Nikki Haley, crushed in her home state, vows to fight on
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ultra-Orthodox Israelis' refusal to fight is a growing problem for Netanyahu
• The Mind-Blowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly
• India's civil society is under attack
• Donald Trump's Very Good Week
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• KAL's cartoon
• Joe Biden's disappearing defence secretary
• AI has spoken: the Apple Car would have been adorable
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• SADProtocol goes to Hollywood
• Donald Trump does exactly what he was expected to do
• Vladimir Putin hardly needs to interfere in American democracy
• The Best Cerveza Cristal Memes, Star Wars or Otherwise
• Olof Dreijer on the Knife, Swedish nationalism and dancefloor activism: 'Music gives us energy to overcome'
• Temu's Push Into America Pays Off Big Time for Meta and Google
• 'Big bullies': Maldives turns away from India as calculating China woos it with aid
• Why Tech Job Interviews Became Such a Nightmare
• Two ideas of free speech duel at America's Supreme Court
• Can Europe arm Ukraine—or even itself?
• Israel's Supreme Court strikes back
• More Americans than ever report a disability
• The favourite in Indonesia's presidential election has a sordid past
• Climate will be a battleground in Britain's next election
• The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law
• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
• This week's covers
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• Narendra Modi has shifted India from the Palestinians to Israel
• The Blacklisted Component That's Disrupting the Luxury-Car Market
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• Is Ukraine losing the war against Russia?
• Spain's institutions are groaning under partisan pressure
• Common sense is not actually very common
• Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?
• Welcome to the era of AI nationalism
• China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology
• 5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
• Don't blame "quiet quitting" on Gen-Z
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• AstraZeneca Announed Further GBP200 Million Investment Announced to Expand Presence in Cambridge
• The simmering row over Spanish-language teaching in Catalan schools
• 'We deserve better': what the papers say about Jeremy Hunt's pre-election budget
• Northern Ethiopia is again sliding into starvation
• China's Boom Is Over---Beijing Is Making It Worse
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Europe's economy is in a bad way. Policymakers need to react
• Israel isn't sure what to do about the hostages in Gaza
• Politics
• The dwindling of the Panama Canal boosts rival trade routes
• What the death of America's border bill says about toxic congressional politics
• Houthi missile attack kills 3 crew members in rebels' first fatal assault on shipping
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• As Israel fights on in Gaza its dilemma gets worse
• Why no one is winning the war in Ukraine – video explainer
• Dark Brandon in the House
• Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine offer oldest evidence of human presence in Europe
• Powell said the Fed expects conditions will be right to cut interest rates this year, but wants more evidence that inflation is slowing before it acts.
• Investors are going loco for CoCos
• A Solar Eclipse, Cancer Treatments and Robots with AI
• CloudMiner - Execute Code Using Azure Automation Service Without Getting Charged
• The Privacy Danger Lurking in Push Notifications
• For a second time Chileans reject a new constitution. Now what?
• Hudson Valley Weekend Trips: Where to Find the Region's Best New Restaurants, Hotels and Kombucha Sorbet
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• How independent is India's Supreme Court?
• Singapore cracks down on Chinese influence
• What Javier Milei could learn from Peru's economic successes
• China and the EU risk a trade war
• The Palestinians' new prime minister faces a nightmare
• Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Final Fantasy 14 will finally hit Xbox Series X/S on March 21
• How an ugly marital feud could change Indian business
• Australians are no longer united on Aboriginal rights
• From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
• Florida too may have an abortion referendum in November
• Houthis blow open murky world of ship nationality
• Your Definitive Guide to the 2024 Great North American Solar Eclipse
• The battle over South Africa's spicy-chicken market
• Sean Baker's films bring sex work into the light
• Japan's ruling party is in crisis
• 'There aren't seasons any more': a childhood without water in north Colombia
• Politics
• A northern mayor's left-wing challenge to Labour
• Big tech and geopolitics are reshaping the internet's plumbing
• The world's first pathway for individually designed drugs
• Pfizer Couldn't Pay for Marketing This Good
• Thaksin Shinawatra joins Thailand's establishment
• Business
• Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing
• The battle with China is psychological as much as physical
• JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally
• An interview with Hsiao Bi-khim, candidate for Taiwan's vice-president
• The path ahead for China's Belt and Road Initiative
• Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
• China is trying to boost domestic tourism
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Israel scorns America's unprecedented peace plan
• Israel strikes a hostage deal, but says the Gaza war isn't over
• AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
• Myanmar's junta suffers startling defeats
• Skullcandy's new wireless earbuds are made primarily out of recycled plastics
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
• Bear Original Mattress Review: Affordable, Memory Foam Mattress With a Unique Cover - CNET
• 'What a ridiculous question!' How fawning, lechery and sheer inanity ruined the red carpet
• How working from home is reshaping Canary Wharf
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• Pakistan's voters tell the generals where to put it
• Joe Biden's limits on LNG exports won't help the climate
• AI Talent Is in Demand as Other Tech Job Listings Decline
• A clash over Trump's disqualification tests the Supreme Court
• China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
• KAL's cartoon
• Companies run to their own annual rhythms
• Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America's top oil company
• The world's deadliest war last year wasn't in Ukraine
• Newsroom at 'New York Times' fractures over story on Hamas attacks
• What Is Net Neutrality? The Complete WIRED Guide
• The Tyranny of English
• MH370: one of aviation's biggest mysteries remains unsolved 10 years on
• America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence
• Jiang Zemin oversaw a wave of economic change, but not much political reform
• The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
• Musk v Zuckerberg: who's winning?
• Japan's semiconductor toolmakers are booming
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
• What would Europe do if Trump won?
• One Twin Was Hurt, the Other Was Not. Their Adult Mental Health Diverged.
• BackDoorSim - An Educational Into Remote Administration Tools
• SharpCovertTube - Youtube As Covert-Channel - Control Windows Systems Remotely And Execute Commands By Uploading Videos To Youtube
• Politics
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Ethiopia's gambit for a port is unsettling a volatile region
• The Wild Claim at the Heart of Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit
• Latin America's most powerful new gang built a human-trafficking empire
• Video: Busting globalisation myths
• What Can Election 2024 Polls Really Tell Us?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Did bitcoin leak from an American spy lab?
• World's oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast
• How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
• A Kind of Timeless Jazz Masterpiece
• China's quest to become a robot superpower
• Europe's Digital Markets Act Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech
• Xi Jinping looks abroad for confidence
• America's Supreme Court is inclined to clamp down on regulators
• A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale
• Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
• Cambodia's genocide is still hurting its people
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza
• Which city is the cheapest in the world?
• In Europe, green policies rule while green politicians struggle
• Microsoft is ending support for Android apps on Windows
• Stolpersteine grieve for victims of the Nazis, one at a time
• This week's cover
• How will Russia remember Alexei Navalny? – video explainer
• Israel's current large-scale operation is the last one in Gaza
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Post-apocalyptic city builder Frostpunk 2 arrives on July 25
• The best podcasts of 2021
• Jim Beard, keyboardist for Steely Dan, dies aged 63
• Why those who wish to see Trump jailed soon will be disappointed
• Tory levelling up has been a scam. Here are three things Labour can do to make it actually mean something | John Harris
• Sling TV now lets customers play free arcade games while watching live TV content
• The Problem Isn't Big Banks---It's Banks Getting Bigger
• The Secret iPhone Setting Every Owner Should Know
• When My Country Invaded Ukraine, I Faced a Choice: Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• S&P 500 Drops Farther From Record
• China to Issue CNY1 Trillion in Special Ultralong Bonds
• Why is Brazil a hotspot for financial crime?
• How to get African oil out of the ground without Western lenders
• How to kill a goose quickly
• Where are Europe's most expensive cities for renters?
• How a sombre mood gripped Europe
• NASA's PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• By Preserving Resources, We're Protecting People, Too
• Madrid is booming. Growing while keeping its cool will be the tricky part
• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
• Joe Biden lifts sanctions on Venezuela, but not without conditions
• Flexible Hours Come to the Factory: A Look Inside Land O'Lakes' Plant
• The Dark Hedges are dying
• Harry Kane does the business for Bayern - Football Weekly
• Google Says It's Purging All the AI Trash Littering Its Search Results
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• How Argentine businessmen size up Javier Milei
• How to transport a rhino
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• How to Open Spotify Links If You Aren't a Spotify User
• African governments return to international bond markets
• A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
• Nikki Haley has one last card to play: will she eventually endorse Trump?
• Homeland Economics
• Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
• A Looming Disaster at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
• Gao Yaojie uncovered a scandal that shocked and shamed China
• Narendra Modi's party sweeps in north and central India
• Starry new productions show "Macbeth" is the tragedy for our times
• How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
• The "effective altruism" movement is louder than it is large
• The rise of Pinduoduo and Temu: profits and secrets | FT Film
• A Nobel prize in physiology for mRNA vaccines
• iOS 17.4 is here, enabling third-party app stores in the EU
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• Franz Mohr was the man who made great concerts possible
• What Is Blockchain? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Vast amounts of the world's shipping sails unseen
• A nationalist effort to rebrand the Chinese dragon
• The EU's €50bn package for Ukraine is a far cry from its rhetoric
• Elizabeth II never laid down the heavy weight of the crown
• Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
• Why skipping ropes are so expensive in China
• From duck stamps to doomsday: the past year in American politics
• The disappearance of China's defence minister raises big questions
• The travails and bold aims of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
• Dunkin' faces a moo-ving class-action suit from the lactose intolerant
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• The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Is Smaller but Hits Harder Than Ever
• Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas's tunnels
• How will America's economy fare in 2024? Don't ask a forecaster
• Can you build a British voter?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against a Group That Found Hate Speech on X Isn't Going Well
• Why migration is in such a mess once more
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• At Christmas, Europeans look less united than ever
• Donald Trump's tremendous love
• North Korea is shutting embassies
• Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
• Google Is Finally Trying to Kill AI Clickbait
• Is Europe's stubby skyline a sign of low ambition?
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• South-East Asia learns how to deal with China
• Business
• China's government launches a campaign against medical corruption
• Law-enforcement officials and some school districts are adding new tools to discourage teen vaping, including sniffer dogs and school-bathroom sensors.
• In Japan, festivals are boldly taking art into the countryside
• As China's markets suffer, what alternatives do investors have?
• NullSection - An Anti-Reversing Tool That Applies A Technique That Overwrites The Section Header With Nullbytes
• 7 Great Deals on iPads and Accessories
• America and Iran step closer to the brink of war
• Europe's grumpy farmers are a symptom of wider malaise
• Zoom meetings and beach clean-ups: how unknown Jason Palmer upset Biden in the American Samoa primary
• Jeremy Hunt's election year budget – podcast
• What gift would you give Narendra Modi?
• Is Raw Milk Cheese Safe to Eat?
• KAL's cartoon
• Why Chinese mourn Li Keqiang, their former prime minister
• AMLO's austerity has hurt Mexico
• How Target Circle 360 Compares With Amazon Prime and Walmart+
• Elon Musk v labour unions: Sweden edition
• Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us
• Xi Jinping risks setting off another trade war
• Northern Ireland gets its government back
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
• How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
• Donald Tusk must undo years of populist subversion in Poland
• Who will be the next president of Indonesia?
• 2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided
• Lawn bowls is in decline. Can it make a comeback?
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• The future lies with electric vehicles
• Why Britain's homes will need different types of heat pump
• Can whisky conquer Chinese palates?
• Communist rappers are luring young disgruntled Chinese
• Sinéad O'Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
• Douglas Lenat trained computers to think the old-fashioned way
• Tullow Oil Profit Plunges
• You've Never Seen Animals Look Like This
• Abe Shinzo believed that Japan should assert itself in the world
• Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem
• America's missing doctors
• Just how bad is it in Gaza?
• Over 600 Google Workers Urge the Company to Cut Ties With Israeli Tech Conference
• OpenAI's legal battles are not putting off customers—yet
• Iris Apfel became a fashion icon in her eighth decade
• Microbiome treatments are taking off
• China's "demographic dividend" appears to be a myth
• Colombia's first avowedly left-wing president is mired in scandal
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• The damage done by Russia's hack of Germany's defence ministry
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Generative AI generates tricky choices for managers
• Budget 2024: key points at a glance
• Why are Indians shunning the country's shiny new metro lines?
• China Sales of Tesla, Other EV Makers Hit the Skids in February
• Elon Musk's messiah complex may bring him down
• Ukraine takes an important step towards EU membership
• India's top court upholds the central government's grab at Kashmir
• Elections in Ecuador and Guatemala suggest an anti-incumbent surge
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
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• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• Claude Montana obituary
• How covid-19 spurred governments to snoop on sewage
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
• The search for justice in America is not a nine-to-five job
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• Trump v Biden: who's ahead in the polls?
• Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on
• Short-sellers are endangered. That is bad news for markets
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Don't be fooled by America's "new" supply chains
• Living outside China has become more like living inside China
• Joe Biden puts the Houthis back on America's baddies list
• Republicans' Dilemma on Mayorkas Impeachment: When to Take the Loss
• Two by-election defeats spell deep trouble for the Tories
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are a blow to global trade
• Israel is more popular than social-media posts suggest
• How worried should Amazon be about Shein and Temu?
• The prospect of a Trump presidency looms over Mexico's elections
• Is America's EV revolution stalling?
• Trump's Conquest of the Republican Party Matters to Every American
• Warner Bros. Is Shuttering Rooster Teeth, Creator of RWBY and gen:LOCK
• Israel-Hamas Talks Over Hostage Releases and a Cease-Fire Stall
• The age of the grandparent has arrived
• KAL's cartoon
• A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
• Britain's mental-health crisis is a tale of unintended consequences
• The flaws that China's chief ideologue found in America
• Battlefield lessons
• Charter schools do things that all Democrats say they support
• Ice-free summers in Arctic possible within next decade, scientists say
• Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• China's Exports Rise, Cheering Beijing---and Foreshadowing a Backlash
• America's pandemic savings are running out
• The Greatest App of All Time Day 5: Snapchat vs. Vine
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• Lee Jae-myung, South Korea's opposition leader, survives a stabbing
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• The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
• How to survive a superpower split
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• Labour wants to make Brexit work better. What does the EU think?
• Odysseus Marks the First US Moon Landing in More Than 50 Years
• How does Ron DeSantis dropping out change the Republican primary?
• This Antipoaching Unit in Kenya is Saving Sea Turtles
• A majority of congressmen want more military aid for Ukraine
• Meta explains how third-party apps will hook into Messenger and WhatsApp
• China's push to create a single national identity
• Apple Fined $2 Billion as Europe Sides With Spotify
• We Need to Investigate UFOs. But Without the Distraction of Conspiracy Theories
• America braces for Taiwan's election—and vice versa
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
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• China's deep-water fishing fleet is the world's most rapacious
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• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• Data on air bases suggest a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may not be imminent
• Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story
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• KAL's cartoon
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• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• Investing in commodities has become nightmarishly difficult
• Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
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• Geert Wilders's Dutch election win is a headache for Europe
• Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
• 11 Best Tents (2024): Backpacking, Family, and Ultralight
• The British army mulls allowing beards
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• Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan's better dictators
• Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
• Is the world's most important asset market broken?
• Marjorie Taylor Greene lashes out as Emily Maitlis asks about conspiracy theories
• Google Is Finally Trying to Kill AI Clickbait
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
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• Ukraine Enters New Phase of War With Russia: Dig, Dig, Dig
• The Origin and Legacy of the Human Age
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• Politics hampers Delhi's fight against air pollution
• Headspace brings meditation to Meta Quest
• Why are cities in Latin America getting more expensive?
• The best thing about the M3 MacBook Air is… the M2 MacBook Air
• At last, a convincing explanation for America's drug-death crisis
• Spain shows regional nationalists make bad coalition partners
• How Covid changed politics | David Runciman
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky's highly methodical madness
• House Passes Bipartisan $460 Billion Spending Bill to Avert a Partial Shutdown
• The Chinese Communist Party wants (a bit) less consumer internet
• How to succeed—and fail—as a foreign business in India
• Samsung's 32-inch smart monitor is $300 off right now
• Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, wins a fifth term
• Which countries get the best night's sleep?
• Xi Jinping is trying to fuse the ideologies of Marx and Confucius
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• A court rejects Donald Trump's claim to absolute immunity
• How motherhood hurts careers
• Ex-Google engineer arrested for alleged theft of AI secrets for Chinese firms
• Is China understating its own export success?
• It's Time to End the Election Wishcasting
• The UK's GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal
• The Hindu right's pro-cow policies are terrible for India's cows
• The US Supreme Court is primed to recalibrate government power
• India's Supreme Court delivers a rare setback for Narendra Modi
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• Apple's iPhone Sales in China Fall as Huawei Gains Market Share
• Did UN workers participate in the October 7th attacks?
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• Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
• Why Iran is hard to intimidate
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
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• Donald Trump is ordered to pay for his bullying
• 21 Best Wireless Headphones (2024): Earbuds, Noise Canceling, and More
• A landslip in Hong Kong fuels resentment of the rich
• How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
• Facebook, Instagram, Messenger Are Back Up After Worldwide Outage
• Canada's miserly defence spending is increasingly embarrassing
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• The head of the hard-right Alternative for Germany is riding high
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• Tesla Halts Production in Germany After Arson Attack
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• India bridles at China's growing presence in South Asia
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• Rep. Dean Phillips ends a longshot bid to defeat Biden in the Democratic primary
• February was warmest on record globally, say scientists
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• The horror story of HS2
• How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own
• America's economy is booming. So why are bosses worried?
• Why America's controls on sales of AI tech to China are so leaky
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• As Iran scares the Middle East, at home its regime rots
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• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
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