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• The world's richest countries in 2024
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Paul Alexander lived longer than anyone in an iron lung
• Britain's justice system has responded forcefully to the riots
• The truth behind Olena Zelenska's $1.1m Cartier haul
• China's tin-eared approach to the world
• Mark Robinson has hijacked his own campaign in North Carolina
• Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain
• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• Kids Deserve to Learn How Weird and Wonderful English Really Is
• Russia-Backed Media Outlets Are Under Fire in the US—but Still Trusted Worldwide
• Liberalism is far from dead in China
• Business
• A U.S. Crackdown Targeted an Adderall 'Pill Mill.' Secretly, It Had Already Moved to China.
• Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach
• Poland's ruling coalition divides over women's rights
• Could there be a US-Mexico trade war?
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Inflatable Outdoor Furniture Ever Be Chic?
• Who was behind the arson attacks on railways before the Olympics?
• Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
• How Choices About Having Kids Really Get Made
• Israel has bloodied Hizbullah but is stuck in a war of attrition
• Why China is unlikely to restrain Iran
• Nike's New CEO Has One Hell of a Challenge Ahead
• Bacha Coffee to open on Paris's Champs-Elysées as it fends off rivals in Asia
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• Joan Didion's radical curiosity
• Ukraine Is Decentralizing Energy Production to Protect Itself From Russia
• Ashok - A OSINT Recon Tool, A.K.A Swiss Army Knife
• Does America have enough weapons to support its allies?
• Business
• Birubala Rabha fought to end the stigmatisation of women
• Introducing El Boletín, our new weekly newsletter on Latin America
• Labour is on course for a huge victory in the British election
• Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug
• The India express
• Sport is getting hotter, harder and deadlier
• Meet LISA: The $1.6 Billion Space Telescope That Will Redefine Astronomy
• How Meta's Smart Ray-Ban Glasses Spawned a Silicon Valley Hit
• Blighty newsletter: Why Labour has a soft spot for Stevenage
• China mulls a bold test of taxation without representation
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?
• How Your Brain Tells Speech and Music Apart
• China is talking to Taiwan's next leader, just not directly
• The fate of America's for-profit colleges hinges on the election
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• Experts Warn of Growing Inhalant Trend on TikTok as 'Chroming' Gains Popularity
• Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
• AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns
• American long-range missiles are coming back to Europe
• Lavender extract makes excellent mosquito-repellent
• Why family empires dominate business in India
• Our Carrie Bradshaw index: where Americans can afford to live solo in 2024
• Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?
• Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
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• A reformer wanting a nuclear deal with America wins Iran's election
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• A High-Profile Clean-Energy Startup Is Running Short on Cash
• The Celebrities Lending Their Voices to Meta's New AI
• Half Ukraine's power is knocked out; winter is coming
• Israel Presses Air Campaign Against Shaken Hezbollah
• China views America's presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
• An inspiring, if frustrating, portrayal of the Williams sisters' coach and dad
• A short history of Russia and Ukraine
• Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China's entrepreneurs
• Somaliland's camel herders are milking it
• Attention, Spoiled Software Engineers: Take a Lesson from Google's Programming Language
• The dark side of growing old
• Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones
• Stunning Bird Photographs Showcase Incredible Views of Life on the Wing
• Microsoft's Three Mile Island Deal Signals a Broader Nuclear Comeback
• Watch out Beijing, China's second-tier cities are on the up
• The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents
• Business
• This week's cover
• We're hiring a global correspondent
• Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?
• Would building 1.5m homes bring down British house prices?
• A language guide for judges is a window into modern Britain
• Observer Original Photography
• Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
• A short history of Hollywood's poison-pen letters to itself
• Who is Ryan Routh, Donald Trump's would-be assassin?
• Video: insights from the author
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
• Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
• Javier Milei is splurging on the army
• The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space
• Where is the "motherhood penalty" greatest?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
• China's wealthy elite rigs its university arms race
• Britain's submarines are at sea for too long—or not at all
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Is Leaving the Company
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Best Smart Thermostats of 2024, Tested and Reviewed
• Can Britain's "mission-led" government defy gravity?
• Environments can affect language—just not how you think
• Why Do So Many Tiny Asteroids Have Moons?
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• Why MAGA is the future, not just present, of the GOP
• Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
• Who will become Japan's next prime minister?
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa
• Narendra Modi needs to win over low-income Indians
• Wally Amos built, and lost, a delicious empire
• Some Taiwanese worry that their lawmakers may sell them out to China
• Xi Jinping worries that China's troops are not ready to fight
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• Zelensky Presses Case for Missile Strikes, Tries to Patch Up GOP Support
• Fidelity Slashes Mobile Deposit Limits Following Fraud Wave
• Buy Microsoft Office For Windows or Mac Once, Use It Forever – Lowest Price of the Year!
• J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
• David Bowie delved into his own past on "Toy"
• The fight to dethrone the dollar
• After 100 brutal days, Javier Milei has markets believing
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• Why Silver Is Having a Golden Moment
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
• Some good news about America's fertility problem
• How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
• Green protectionism comes with big risks
• A court says Google is a monopolist. Now what?
• What Europe's comeback politicians can teach American voters
• Phyllida Barlow had a lifetime of adventure making art
• What could stop the Nvidia frenzy?
• Is coal the new gold?
• The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It's Loony
• Hollywood enters a frugal new era
• Why Hong Kong is sending its old people to Guangdong
• The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
• The Trump campaign fires a barrage of negative advertisements
• The "Scream" franchise adds another self-referential sequel
• Germany to Keep Commerzbank Shares After UniCredit Takes Stake
• Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
• South Africa's foreign minister wants better relations with the West
• Scientists Nuke an Asteroid in a Lab Mock-Up
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• The Middle East in crisis: 7 October, the day that changed the world
• To revive the economy, China wants consumers to buy better stuff
• Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
• China unites America and Europe in alarm
• Want to stop a third world war? Pick up the phone
• Turmoil awaits Michel Barnier, France's new prime minister
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Kamala Harris's journey to define herself
• Mexico's next president can reset relations with the United States
• Can Samsung get its mojo back?
• Paris's stunning vision for the Olympics wins a gold medal
• Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
• KAL's cartoon
• Latin America's farmers are cashing in on hot hot-cocoa prices
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• Xi Jinping wants to stifle thinking at a top Chinese think-tank
• The former president of Honduras is tried for drug trafficking
• Strangely, America's companies will soon face higher interest rates
• What a Japanese gold mine says about its approach to history
• After Shark Tank, Mark Cuban Just Wants to Break Shit—Especially the Prescription Drug Industry
• Singapore's foreign admirers see only the stuff they like
• A pager-bomb attack causes disarray for Hizbullah
• How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
• Even as it humiliates Russia, Ukraine's line is crumbling in the Donbas
• Never Lose Your Wallet Again With KeySmart SmartCard — Three for Under $100
• More than 100 killed and 64 missing as flooding and landslides hit Nepal
• Amazon Prime Day 2024: The best deals ahead of the October Big Deal Days sale and everything we know so far
• Chat Podcasts Rule the Market—and Always Will
• Should you send your children to private school?
• I Built a Chatbot to Replace Me. It Went a Little Wild.
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
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• The IMF has a protest problem
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• China's rulers are surprised by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
• The NSA Has a Podcast—Here's How to Decode It
• America remains Asia's military-exercise partner of choice
• The race to become leader of Britain's Conservatives
• America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission
• Emmanuel Macron's vision of a more muscular Europe is coming true
• Acadia Hospitals Reach $20 Million Settlement With Justice Dept.
• Vizio 4K TV (2024) Review: A Simple TV for Cheap
• Israelis cheer death of arch-enemy Hassan Nasrallah
• Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hamas's pick of Yahya Sinwar as leader makes a ceasefire less likely
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Meet the victors in Africa's coup belt
• India's electric-scooter champion goes public
• Amazon Spared U.K. Antitrust Probe Over $4 Billion Investment in AI Startup Anthropic
• Will the Lassana Diarra case bring down transfer market as we know it?
• Sinéad O'Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
• Meet the incels and anti-feminists of Asia
• Newsmax and Smartmatic Settle Defamation Lawsuit Over False 2020 Election Claims
• What now for Britain's right-wing parties?
• Israel Takes Aim at Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah in Massive Beirut Airstrike
• Foreign judges are fed up with Hong Kong's political environment
• KAL's cartoon
• Pinduoduo, China's e-commerce star, suffers a blow
• Clean energy's next trillion-dollar business
• A new nuclear arms race looms
• An animated documentary tells the story of Amin, an Afghan refugee
• This week's covers
• Patients Are Turning to Vibrators to Relieve Their Migraines
• We are hiring a new South Asia bureau chief
• Second Health Care Worker Exposed to Person with Bird Flu Had Symptoms. Here's What We Know and Don't Know
• Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor-in-waiting?
• This week's covers
• A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
• Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
• How to survive a superpower split
• What Happens When Artists Start Going to Therapy?
• How many Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine?
• In Sudan, Evil is Resilient — and So Is Heroism
• Amid Air Strikes and Rockets, an SMS From the Enemy
• An apparent coup in Bolivia founders, but the country remains in trouble
• The ubiquitous J.B. Pritzker, the man behind the Democrats' party
• OpenAI's new fundraising is shaking up Silicon Valley
• Don't be fooled by America's "new" supply chains
• An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done
• By 2100 half the world's children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa
• Britain's budget choices are not as bad as the government says
• America's college heads revise rules for handling campus protests
• Is your rent ever going to fall?
• The stockmarket rout may not be over
• Vast government debts are riskier than they appear
• New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Soon After the Deadly Hezbollah Pager Explosions, This AI-Generated Podcast Went Up
• Russia and China Defy the West Deep in the Arctic
• Vietnam's new ruler: hardman, capitalist, hedonist
• The genocide case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
• An 'iPhone of AI' Makes No Sense. What Is Jony Ive Really Building?
• DreamCloud Memory Foam Mattress Review 2024: An Expert Analysis
• Sources and acknowledgments
• XMGoat - Composed of XM Cyber terraform templates that help you learn about common Azure security issues
• The disease that most afflicts England's National Health Service
• British voters care less about tax rises than politicians think
• China's Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen
• Li Qiang and China look to make up with Australia
• New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free
• Israeli strikes on Beirut and Tehran could intensify a regional war
• Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can't Save Them
• The struggle to free Haiti from violence and impotent governance
• No, Sam Altman, AI Won't Solve All of Humanity's Problems
• Why don't women use artificial intelligence?
• Can Israel's economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?
• Britain's government pulls the plug on a superfast computer
• Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
• The deadly journey to the Gulf
• Eric Adams, New York's mayor, is indicted on bribery charges
• Forvia Cuts Sales, Margin Outlook on Market Uncertainty
• What China means when it says "peace"
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The never-Trump movement has leaders. What about followers?
• The many prices of carbon dioxide
• American politicians are the oldest in the rich world
• How shallow was Labour's victory in the British election?
• To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinary
• Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it's time to use them
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Boom times are back for container shipping
• China is sending escapers back to North Korea
• Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history
• BYOSI - Evade EDR's The Simple Way, By Not Touching Any Of The API's They Hook
• Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
• From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin
• Song Binbin, China's Most Famous Red Guard, Dies at 77
• The rebuilding of Berlin's Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A Wall Street state of mind has captured America
• The Middle East braces for wider war as Iran weighs its response
• As Austrians Vote, Far Right Awaits Its Biggest Success
• The swing states in the south that could sway the election – podcast
• America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?
• Why China banned international adoptions
• Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?
• If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You'll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
• Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis?
• Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
• China is overhauling its company law
• I Tried These Brain-Tracking Headphones That Claim to Improve Focus
• After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
• Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again
• China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
• America's recession signals are flashing red. Don't believe them
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• OpenAI reportedly plans to increase ChatGPT's price to $44 within five years
• The demise of an iconic American highway
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• China's high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
• The deal that freed Evan Gershkovich was more than a prisoner swap
• The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches
• Facebook turned off the news in Canada. What happened next?
• Where democracy is most at risk
• It's all doom, gloom and fiscal fixation. Is this really a Labour government? | William Keegan
• Does Britain need a National Wealth Fund?
• The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes
• "Homeland economics" will make the world poorer
• Our new "mega-poll" gives Labour an expected majority of 280 seats
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• Business
• Israel's judge in The Hague is its government's bogeyman
• This week's cover
• The Germany-shaped void at Europe's heart
• Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• As his popularity fades Volodymyr Zelensky culls his cabinet
• What Is Genetic Testing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Apple can't do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can
• Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
• Threads is adding location sharing to posts
• Toriyama Akira was probably Japan's greatest manga master
• TikTok's Latest Trend Lets Gen Z Write the Marketing Script
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• England's school reforms are earning fans abroad
• Turner prize 2024 – everything, everywhere, all at once
• Northvolt announces more cuts, worrying investors
• Will Hamas turn from war to politics?
• Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy's enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast
• Mapping the Marvel Universe in 6 Very Cool Charts
• A global recession is not in prospect
• AMLO's dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
• The best iPhones for 2024: Which model should you buy?
• Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom
• Romania is now a magnet for the world's medical students
• The best memes of 2021
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The travails and bold aims of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
• Narendra Modi ramps up the Muslim-baiting
• Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
• China is itching to mine the ocean floor
• Why orange juice has never been more expensive
• Gary Dauberman on Salem's Lot, Stephen King, and Horror Adaptations
• How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
• China's new plan for tracking people online
• Blizzard is trying to make a StarCraft shooter again (for the third time)
• Checks and Balance newsletter: The alternate-reality Democratic National Convention
• South Africa's future is in the hands of a divided ANC
• The world's most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
• Labour's landslide victory will turn politics on its head
• From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
• Sudan: the war the world forgot
• Best Cookware Sets for 2024
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• X faces additional $1.9M fine to end ban in Brazil
• Hordes of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in America
• A new class struggle is brewing in China
• How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
• Aland is lovely, weapon-free and too close to Russia
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• Don't Wait Until Prime Day: Best Buy's Members-Only Sale Is Offering Major Deals
• Thailand's top court tramples over the country's democracy
• Sources and acknowledgments
• This week's covers
• The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale review – new perspectives on the Rillington Place murders
• In Congo, a desperate struggle to control the deadly mpox outbreak
• Emmanuel Macron's centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
• Can Donald Trump win back suburban voters?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• How King Charles III counts his swans
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• 'Moment of truth' for Austria as far right senses election triumph
• A short history of India in eight maps
• Hfinger - Fingerprinting HTTP Requests
• Japan's mind-bending bento-box economics
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• Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 23 Best Early Prime Day Deals on Products We've Tested (2024)
• America keeps Ukraine fighting with its hands tied
• Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
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• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• Best Internet Providers in St. Petersburg, Florida
• After 12 years of blood, Assad's Syria rejoins the Arab League
• The four women who shook up philosophy
• Germany's party system is coming under unprecedented strain
• Why the price of eggs is on the rise again
• How hotels became targets for British rioters
• Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
• Todd Philips Thinks His Joker Would Have a Somehow More Homoerotic View of Batman
• The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• What if South Korea got a nuclear bomb?
• Russia's friends are a motley—and shrinking—crew
• Where are Europe's most expensive cities for renters?
• What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald Trump
• The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
• Why companies get inflation wrong
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• Nairobi's reputation for crime is outdated
• Meta Releases Llama 3.2—and Gives Its AI a Voice
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• Much keener on Trump, less sure about Charles III
• Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
• SunRay Kelley wanted to build in rhythm with nature, his teacher
• Why Drug Distributors Are Buying Cancer Specialists
• Loons and the Tory leadership battle in Britain
• ABBA return—and pretend no time has passed—with "Voyage"
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• China's robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla's
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
• Dumb phones are making a comeback
• REA Tables Fourth Bid for Rightmove, Urges Board to Engage
• By raising the retirement age, has China created a care crisis?
• Britain's army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
• Who shaved $250bn from Kweichow Moutai's market value?
• American stocks are consuming global markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Kamala Harris win Michigan without Arab-American voters?
• How to mirror your iPhone on macOS Sequoia
• KAL's cartoon
• Apple's New Password Manager Is Free. That's Just One Reason to Use It.
• Trump and other populists will haunt NATO's 75th birthday party
• The Middle East's bizarre waiting game: ceasefire or Armageddon?
• The 27-Year-Old Economic Adviser for Gen Z
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'Terrorgram' Charges Show US Has Had Tools to Crack Down on Far-Right Terrorism All Along
• How the war split the mafia
• Five hours of pints with Paul Heaton: 'We've got distracted. Let's get back to the album'
• Nike's New CEO Has One Hell of a Challenge Ahead
• UFOs are going mainstream
• The smuggler's daughter and other tales from the Gulf of Aden
• An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• Britain is a home but not a haven for Hong Kongers
• The Observer view on Sudan: decisive action is needed to avert catastrophe, but where is the will? | Observer editorial
• Myanmar's military junta is battered by Chinese-backed forces
• How the mad, bad Maduro regime clings to power
• Your Phone Won't Be the Next Exploding Pager
• Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We'll soon find out | Kenan Malik
• Harrods must reveal all NDAs signed by Mohamed Al Fayed's victims, say lawyers
• Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest rates
• Death and destruction in a Russian city
• The bunkers on Beirut's golf course are in the crosshairs
• Robert Badinter persuaded France to abolish the guillotine
• Bangladesh's dictator flees—leaving behind a dangerous vacuum
• Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk
• Meta Missed Out on Smartphones. Can Smart Glasses Make Up for It?
• Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico's elections loom
• China's ties with Russia are growing more solid
• The Viral 'Goodbye Meta AI' Copypasta Will Not Protect You
• Private firms are driving a revolution in solar power in Africa
• What Chipotle and McDonald's say about the consumer slowdown
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• What a $600m wedding says about India's attitude to wealth
• Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
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• The clues in Kamala Harris's championing of reproductive rights
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• Hezbollah Misjudged Israel's Weakness and Iran's Might
• The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It
• America's Dairy Farms Have Vanished
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• OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Is Leaving the Company
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• China's Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen
• Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices?
• Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
• Colombia's first avowedly left-wing president is mired in scandal
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• After Nasrallah's death, the Middle East braces itself
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• How to invest in chaotic markets
• YouTube in Africa offers a new kind of news
• China's relationship with Africa is growing murkier
• What is Crispr Gene Editing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Australia joins the industrial arms race
• VCs expect a surge in startups offering lower rate mortgages, other loans now that the Feds cut rates
• CTO Mira Murati is the latest leader to leave OpenAI
• Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary
• How Polio Entered Gaza, and How the Vaccination Campaign is Going
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• Death of Nasrallah, Hezbollah's Leader, Pushes Mideast Conflict Into New Territory
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• Why migration is in such a mess once more
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The movement of capital globally is in decline
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• Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan's better dictators
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• Britain's boom in public inquiries into past disasters
• Why cooking causes 4m premature deaths a year
• Why the AI revolution is leaving Africa behind
• Rosemary Smith set out to prove that women drivers could do as well as men
• Kamala Harris's post-debate bounce is now visible in the polls
• How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
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• Taiwan is trying to learn from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine
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• Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
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• Israel's ultra-Orthodox still won't fight, invoking scripture
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• Dems Call for Criminal Investigation in Boar's Head Listeria Outbreak That's Killed 10
• The army-backed establishment in Thailand goes after its enemies
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• Blighty newsletter: Labour is demolishing the Tories' pet projects
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• How Broadcom quietly became a $700bn powerhouse
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