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• As the G20 invites the African Union to join, the 'Global South' continues its advance.
• The American left and right loathe each other and agree on a lot
• Much of the Earth remains unexplored
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• Cambodia is about to host arguably the world's biggest sporting event
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• Scientists Stumped by 'Golden Orb' From Seafloor That's 'Biological in Origin'
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
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• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
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• To survive, Britain's NHS must stop fixating on hospital care
• The idea of "holobionts" represents a paradigm shift in biology
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• What to make of a surprise shake-up in China's nuclear force
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• On the 50th anniversary of "Ways of Seeing" and "G."
• The Baltic is delighted to be a NATO lake
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• Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
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• Fanatics and putschists are creating failed states in west Africa
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• Georgia grand jury had recommended charges against more Trump allies
• Lynn Lynn's Journey From Rocker to Dissecting Myanmar's Coup in Film
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• US and EU set to back new India-Middle East transport corridor
• China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
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• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth
• Heard on the Street's Stock-Picking Contest
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• The Generative AI Boom Could Fuel a New International Arms Race
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• The coup in Gabon is part of an alarming trend
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
• Southern Baptists are arguing about the extent of male authority
• Sudan's spiralling war, in maps
• John Hare devoted his life to saving the Gobi's wild camels
• Chinese arms could revive Russia's failing war
• A Canadian lake could mark the start of humanity's geological epoch
• Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
• Generative AI's Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
• What's an Influencer? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Is there more to Alphabet than Google search?
• The growing global movement to restrain house prices
• The Creator of One of Magic: The Gathering's Most Popular Formats Has Died
• What will Indonesia look like after Jokowi leaves?
• What Ukraine's bloody battlefield is teaching medics
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu Nationalist and a Mandela Rival, Dies at 98
• Evangelicals may soon rival Catholics in Latin America
• Warren Gatland 'nervous' as Wales get ready for Fiji Rugby World Cup opener
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• How to win the battle against inflation
• Why the Communist Party fears gay rights
• A big battery investment is good news for British carmaking
• The mystery of gold prices
• What party control means in China
• Microsoft Will Use Carbon-Absorbing Rocks to Meet Climate Goals
• In Xi Jinping's China, central planners rule
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• Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
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• The green revolution will stall without Latin America's lithium
• How much is a human head?
• Meet Ernie, China's answer to ChatGPT
• Can Jordan fall in love with Saudi Arabia?
• Burying Power Lines Prevents Wildfires. But There's a Cost
• It is make or break for Intel's giant bet on Germany
• Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
• Better camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors
• The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
• The best memes of 2021
• Morocco Earthquake Kills at Least 296
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
• There is more than one way to make green steel
• Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• NATO defence spending is rising, but not fast enough
• After half a century, there is a commercial market for Moon missions
• Trump Squeezed America's Geek Squad. Biden Built It Back Stronger
• The "Scream" franchise adds another self-referential sequel
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• Ukraine's assault in Zaporizhia may be the focus of its offensive
• Arab tourism to Israel is still thwarted by politics and Palestine
• Why Britain is so bad at diagnosing cancer
• India leads a boom in orders for passenger jets
• Thich Nhat Hanh believed that Buddhism should be a force for change
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• Sir Tony Blair mesmerises the Labour Party, again
• China is stoking anger over Japan's release of nuclear wastewater
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• How Mexico has become the "enemy" of America's Republicans
• Refugee-friendly Canada tightens its border with the United States
• Hip-hop's 50th anniversary shines a light on its New York City birth
• Germany is becoming expert at defeating itself
• More evidence that animals reduce childhood allergies
• What China's graduates really think about their job prospects
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• President Erdogan wants to make nice with the West, on his terms
• ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Glencore to expand DRC exposure as it pushes into lithium
• Tim Dowling: we're moving bedrooms – before the cat kills me
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• Can Fantastic Four save Marvel – and DC – from superhero movie malaise?
• Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs
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• Hayao Miyazaki Will Not Be Retiring With The Boy and the Heron
• The world's religions face a post-pandemic reckoning
• Welcome to the Republic of Cows
• Elon Musk's plans could hinder Twitternomics
• The Chinese are working more hours than ever
• Egyptians are disgruntled with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi
• Canada's wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
• Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years
• How China became a car-exporting juggernaut
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• Inside Musk's Twitter Transformation: Impulsive Decisions, Favors for Friends
• Elections in Ecuador and Guatemala suggest an anti-incumbent surge
• How should Britain reform rape-trial laws?
• Latin American cities are becoming far nicer for poorer inhabitants
• Can Ukraine capitalise on chaos in Russia?
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• China's economy is in desperate need of rescue
• War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten
• Egypt's government wants to erase a historic cemetery
• What links Peggy Guggenheim and Ezra Pound? The Saturday quiz
• Ron DeSantis is relying on big donors and his super PAC
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• Business families in the Gulf need modern laws of inheritance
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Mitchell and Conway centuries for New Zealand make short work of England
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
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• The Natural-Born Diplomat Behind This Year's Biggest IPO
• Ukrainian official claims Elon Musk cost lives by refusing Starlink access during a drone operation
• Evil QR - Proof-of-concept To Demonstrate Dynamic QR Swap Phishing Attacks In Practice
• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• Uganda's harsh anti-gay bill is now law
• China's war on financial reality
• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• China's new Great Wall
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• Italy's hard-right government is starting to look more radical
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• 'A critical moment': UN warns world will miss climate targets unless fossil fuels phased out
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• Future of controversial Dakota Access pipeline's river crossing remains unclear
• Nigeria's new president scraps the fuel subsidy
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• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
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• The best television shows of 2021
• Ukraine's spymaster has got under the Kremlin's skin
• The Kurds' dreams of independence look farther off than ever
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• How the Democrats lost Florida
• Michael Lipton: The big man of land reform
• The Middle East Becomes the World's ATM
• A risky cancer treatment can be modified to treat immune diseases
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• Heatwaves, flood and fire: what it's like to survive 2023's extreme weather – video
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
• Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can't Be Copyrighted
• Does Islam smile on cryptocurrency?
• Deflation is curbing China's economic rise
• Shell signals retreat from carbon offsetting
• Sheikh Hasina is Asia's iron lady
• German builders are on the brink of collapse
• An enormous—and unexpected—lump of granite has been found on the Moon
• We're Not Racing to the Moon, We're Making It Home
• Hilary Mantel saw things that others couldn't
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• It doesn't take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry
• The trouble with reality in fiction
• How digital gaming spreads far and wide
• The pandemic's indirect effects on small children could last a lifetime
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• Why Central Asians are flocking to Britain
• India's IITs Are a Golden Ticket With a Dark Side
• Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 563 of the invasion
• EVs Elbow Out Internet Titans as China's Business Darling
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• A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• SEC Probes Ryan Cohen's Bed Bath & Beyond Trades
• Is Ukraine's offensive stalling?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft's Signing Key
• India launches space mission to the sun – video
• Britain's inflation pain is mostly self-inflicted and getting worse
• 'Starfield' Will Be the Meme Game for Years to Come
• What OpenAI Really Wants
• April Ashley campaigned for rights hardly considered before
• The battle for Khartoum is just the beginning of Sudan's nightmare
• Nobel-winning novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah: 'I had no other place to go'
• What is Virtual Reality (VR)? The Complete WIRED Guide
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• Italy's protected sectors need exposure to more competition
• How Amos Vogel changed American film culture
• Israel launched its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
• Why Joe Biden will host Japan and South Korea's leaders at Camp David
• How bad could China's property crisis get?
• X-Ray Telescope Spots Black Hole Slowly Devouring a Star
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president, wants to smother the gig economy
• The German economy: from European leader to laggard
• Leaders of Islamic State have a short life-expectancy
• After Spending Billions of Dollars on SLS, NASA Admits Its Moon Rocket Is 'Unaffordable'
• Reading the death certificate on Boris Johnson's political career
• The Bank of Japan jolts global markets
• America's bosses just won't quit. That could spell trouble
• How life has changed along China's border with South-East Asia
• The AI-generated fake Drake and The Weeknd track is 'not eligible' for a Grammy
• How green is your electric vehicle, really?
• Brazil's new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
• How can American house prices still be rising?
• Desmond Tutu believed that truth was the best weapon
• Boris Johnson strikes again
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• The Problem Olivia Rodrigo Can't Solve
• The best podcasts of 2021
• Britain has blown its reputation as a world leader in aid
• A digital payments revolution in India
• China needs foreign workers. So why won't it embrace immigration?
• Can Inflatable Outdoor Furniture Ever Be Chic?
• Everything about carmaking is changing at once
• Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
• The 27 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now
• Best Latex Mattresses of 2023 - CNET
• Daniel Ortega expels 222 political prisoners from Nicaragua
• Republicans intensify their assault on city governments
• England's Lionesses reach the World Cup final
• Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
• Evidence is growing that playing contact sports can lead to long-term brain injuries
• Musk says he limited Ukraine's Starlink to prevent attack on Russia
• This week in The Economist
• Horizon deal shows UK and EU can resolve issues, says Rishi Sunak
• A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
• When China thought America might invade
• China's message to the global south
• China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions
• America's school day starts too early. That's beginning to change
• Some forms of chronic pain are particularly mysterious
• Deterring would-be putschists in Africa is getting harder
• What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?
• A slew of scandals puts Singapore's government on the back foot
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• Sudan's war is home-grown, but risks drawing in outsiders
• How Burning Man festival descended into mud and chaos – in pictures
• How well does your country provide for its citizens?
• How India's states compete for investment
• Will Mining the Moon and Asteroids Be Worth the Trouble?
• To ensure vaccines work properly, men should get a good night's sleep
• Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway
• Mexico's gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
• Stuttgart's ever-receding station is Germany's latest transport fiasco
• What TIM's mega-spin-off reveals about Europe's telecoms industry
• The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law
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• In drought-stricken Europe, leaky pipes are worsening the problem
• We Tested Six Expensive Men's Razors. One Stood Out.
• Do Britons even like the royal family?
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• Tony Evers's veto shows the growing power of Midwestern Democrats
• An acrimonious debate about covid's origins will rumble on
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• Why China fears Starlink
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• How pop culture went multipolar
• From wild swimming to grouse shooting, Britain is in hock to hobbyists
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• Britons should brace for more travel chaos
• The undeclared race to replace Emmanuel Macron
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• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
• How the U.S. Stumbled Into Using Chips as a Weapon Against China
• China and Russia compete for Central Asia's favour
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• Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals
• An unlikely tech cluster exemplifies China's economic vision
• Foreign airlines in Nigeria are frustrated by the blocking of their funds
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
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• How Russia dodges diesel sanctions
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• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
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• America's logistics boom has turned to bust
• Hong Kong puts a price on the heads of democracy activists
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• Grindr's Return to Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech
• Temperature-Related Deaths in the US Could Jump Fivefold by 2100, Study Finds
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• Americans are moving to places besieged by extreme heat
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• Business leaders fear that South Africa risks becoming a failed state
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• Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
• An ambitious plan for "total peace" in Colombia is faltering
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
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• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
• Why Europe is a magnet for more Americans
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• After a bungled coup attempt, Peru's president falls
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