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• How, if at all, might Russia be punished for its war crimes in Ukraine?
• Ann Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelics in therapy
• Amazon signs 3-launch deal with SpaceX for Project Kuiper satellite internet constellation
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• Netflix takes a swing at live sport
• England may soon become the world's best cricket team
• Real wages have risen in America and are rebounding in Europe
• Climate Cookbooks Are Here to Change How You Eat
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa
• Universal Audio is giving away Volt 2 audio interfaces with Spark subscriptions
• Sandra Day O'Connor, the Mom Next Door—And So Much More
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• Why would Elon Musk want to deliberately destroy X? | Arwa Mahdawi
• Saotome Katsumoto insisted that Japan should not forget
• In Spain's parliament, you can now speak Basque (or Catalan or Galician)
• How science will be transformed by AI
• Will China save the planet or destroy it?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story
• Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals
• "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" show that blockbusters could save the cinema
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• Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
• The Mittelstand will redeem German innovation
• A chunk of asteroid is coming to Earth
• High bond yields imperil America's financial stability
• The rise of user-created video games
• The future of fish farming is on land
• Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better
• Argentina's presidential election delivers a surprise result
• China's "demographic dividend" appears to be a myth
• Canada's miserly defence spending is increasingly embarrassing
• Tyrant, liberator, warmonger, bureaucrat: the meaning of Napoleon
• 'It's just not right': residents react to demolition order for Mast Quay II tower block – video
• Asia is rowing about Fukushima nuclear wastewater
• How soon will Ukraine be able to use its F-16s?
• The World's Key Canal Is Clogged Up. Winter Fuel Prices Could Get Wacky.
• How to make NYC work better for its winged inhabitants
• Bibi Netanyahu is the wrong man in the wrong place
• America's next government shutdown could be the strangest yet
• Inside OpenAI's weird governance structure
• Biden Administration Announces Rule to Cut Millions of Tons of Methane Emissions
• Are young people poised to slam the brake on endless economic growth?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Politics hamper China's efforts to stimulate the economy
• Liz Truss and Jeremy Corbyn still haunt British politics
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• These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI's Shadowy Q* Project
• OSINT-Framework - OSINT Framework
• Signa sold prized KaDeWe property at cut price
• The $10 Million Quest to Ace a High-School Math Test
• Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
• 2023 Space-Telescope Advent Calendar
• Meet Ernie, China's answer to ChatGPT
• India's Supreme Court refuses to recognise same-sex marriage
• The 25 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now
• This Is the 9/11 Lesson That Israel Needs to Learn
• Sustainability is real and smart investors know it
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• China's slowing economy, seen from ground level
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• What a Classical-Music Critic Reads
• Russell Brand was the norm in the nasty noughties
• Can America's weapons-makers adapt to 21st-century warfare?
• Americans are discovering the joy of a true pint of beer
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• How to Donate to Charity, Get a Tax Break and Have Income for Life
• Uruguay is losing its reputation as Latin America's success story
• The four women who shook up philosophy
• The coming years will be the hottest ever
• Nicaragua's Miss Universe emerges as symbol of defiance against Ortega regime
• An acrimonious debate about covid's origins will rumble on
• Political dysfunction in Northern Ireland is the new normal
• Australians are no longer united on Aboriginal rights
• Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With a New Board Seat for Microsoft
• Reducing anaemia in the developing world: why researchers are adding nutrients to salt and tea
• TC+ Roundup: Forestry tech is at an inflection point
• A brutal battle for southern Gaza beckons once the truce ends
• President Erdogan wants to make nice with the West, on his terms
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
• Tech's New Normal: Microcuts Over Growth at All Costs
• NATO defence spending is rising, but not fast enough
• Why is Vladimir Putin looking to North Korea for arms?
• Frontline Formosa
• 'We'd roll joints and watch Netflix with him!' Irish folk artists on the creative genius of Shane MacGowan
• The Weirdest Reason the Poles Are Warming So Fast? Invisible Clouds
• Impressions of a first-time visitor to the Tory conference
• Thailand's new Thaksinist government
• How China trains its journalists to report "correctly"
• How carbon prices are taking over the world
• The meaning of relief for Aung San Suu Kyi
• Sabre-tooth tigers and dire wolves were in trouble before they vanished
• Why economists are at war over inequality
• What's an Influencer? The Complete WIRED Guide
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• Cuba's Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
• OpenAI's Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
• Why the market for superyachts is booming
• The battle of northern Gaza is almost over
• The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
• Wagner's customers will have to adjust to new leadership
• How Ukraine's enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
• 'Brands to avoid': Mars and Cadbury among chocolate firms criticised in ethics report
• When it comes to a war with Taiwan, many Chinese urge caution
• Keeping tabs on China's murky maritime manoeuvres
• Move over, lads! How the world turned girly
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
• KAL's cartoon
• Is the end of AIDS in sight?
• Narendra Modi and the art of claiming credit
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• America's big car firms face lengthy strikes
• From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
• OMV, Austria's energy major, reimagines its future
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• Cherish your Uber drivers. Soon they will be robots
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• M.S. Swaminathan, the man who fed India
• Japan is preparing for a massive earthquake
• Investors are going loco for CoCos
• The fading legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor, a trailblazing justice
• Britain's Labour Party takes lessons from Joe Biden
• Inside India's Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River
• How to manage teams in a world designed for individuals
• Defense Stocks Benefit From War, Renewing ESG Debate for Everyday Investors
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• After a brutal campaign, Poland gets ready to vote
• China's banks may be loaded up with hidden bad loans
• KAL's cartoon
• Are American children's books getting more "woke"?
• TikTok's new profile tools are just for musicians
• Why fear is spreading in financial markets
• Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium
• Introducing Essential India, our latest newsletter
• A Nobel prize for electron-watchers
• Indonesia wants to export moderate Islam
• The many prices of carbon dioxide
• Ukraine's small Jewish community is thriving
• China's government launches a campaign against medical corruption
• Retail investors have a surprising new favourite: Treasury bills
• 11 Christmas Lessons Bob's Burgers Has Taught Us
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How British colonialism increased diabetes in south Asians
• Did bitcoin leak from an American spy lab?
• Italy needs more migrants, but has trouble admitting it
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
• Germany's Christian Democrats are unsure whom to hug
• South American governments are trying to curb illegal fishing
• I'm watching 'AI upscaled' Star Trek and it isn't terrible
• Drugs to treat alcohol addiction are underused
• Israel's ground assault hits Gaza's communication network
• Ukraine's latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs
• Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can 'Hear' Them
• How Much Do We Give to Charities Now That We're Retired?
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• The Most Dangerous Conflict No One Is Talking About
• Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane
• Make your own Parthenon marbles
• Why it is time to retire Dr Copper
• In Dubai, Harris deals with 2 issues important to young voters: climate and Gaza
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How pop culture went multipolar
• 21 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in December
• Perilous migrant crossings of the Mediterranean are rising
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• How to restore Britons' confidence in the police
• The EU's endless search for a migration fix
• Into the wild to fight Scotland's addiction problems – video
• It's OK to gerrymander, as long you discriminate by politics
• Glenda Jackson left acting for politics—and then returned
• 27 Great Tech Gifts Under $100 - CNET
• The FT's 25 most influential women of 2023
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• Britain's Labour Party embraces supply-side social democracy
• Macau offers a new way to get rich
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• The New York Public Library mines its archive of 56m objects
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• When can American officials block citizens on social media?
• Bob Menendez's indictment is colourful even by Jersey standards
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• Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right
• Cambodia's autocrat is fixing his succession
• Outsize Profits Helped Drive Inflation. Now Consumers Are Pushing Back.
• Ukraine prepares for winter again as Russia targets its power grid
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• Mexico's government is suing American gun manufacturers
• Britain's probation service is in deep trouble
• Insects could help turn beer waste into beef
• A Damning Report Claims the Union That Defeated Uber Had a Culture of Abuse and Toxicity
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• 'Authentic' Is 2023's Word of the Year. You Read That Right
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• Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
• Why German bosses are heaping unexpected praise on France
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
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• What a third world war would mean for investors
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• The world's greatest toilet culture
• Understanding Consciousness Is Key to Unlocking Secrets of the Universe
• The Morning After: NASA and IBM team up for powerful AI weather model
• Why the EU will not remain the world's digital über-regulator
• Copping out? Biden skips UN climate conference – podcast
• Zelenskiy calls for Russia to lose UN security council veto power – video
• Africa's supermarket revolution
• Mass-Bruter - Mass Bruteforce Network Protocols
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Deal Dive: Betting on beauty fads is big business
• It's Now Way Easier to Play Steam VR Games on Meta Quest
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The best albums of 2021
• Robotic Putting Greens. Mixed Reality. Loud Spectators. This Is Golf?!
• North Korea's borders are creaking open
• Xi Jinping bumps up the share prices of firms he visits
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• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• A spy for China in Britain's Parliament?
• Amazon Hires Elon Musk's SpaceX for Three Rocket Launches
• To understand America's job market, look beyond unemployed workers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Homeland Economics
• Instagram's Algorithm Delivers Toxic Video Mix to Adults Who Follow Children
• Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• Why China is restricting exports of graphite
• A fight over dangerous dogs in Britain
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• What does China want from Latin America and the Caribbean?
• Swimming's ruling on transgender women continues a trend
• As Ukrainian men head off to fight, women take up their jobs
• African leaders want debt relief for climate action
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• Revenue-based financing heats up in the Middle East as Flow48 attracts $25M in funding
• 38 Cyber Monday Kitchen Deals (2023): KitchenAid, Oxo, Ninja
• Can Inflatable Outdoor Furniture Ever Be Chic?
• External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
• Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption?
• Israeli grid maps make life in Gaza 'macabre game of Battleships', say aid workers
• Demand for chocolate causes more illegal deforestation than people realise
• The world's least liveable cities are starting to improve
• Medical AI Tools Can Make Dangerous Mistakes. Can the Government Help Prevent Them?
• The 26 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now
• How Mark Zuckerberg escaped a metaverse-sized hole
• Social-media influencers are battling to educate young Indians about sex
• Mexico's gangs could be the country's fifth-biggest employer
• A wave of international rule-making threatens Caribbean tax havens
• Rwanda wants to be Africa's new cop on the beat
• Russia is poised to take advantage of political splits in Ukraine
• The culture wars have come to Canada
• Uzbekistan's Bukharan Jews are disappearing
• Hong Kong puts a price on the heads of democracy activists
• The ancient Eleusinian mysteries get a new incarnation
• Everything you need to know about Cop28 as the summit begins – podcast
• Finding aliens means studying new sorts of planet
• Climate change is harder on less educated people
• Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Britain's Treasury must change its ways
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• Nascar Revs Up TV, Streaming Deals Worth Nearly $8 Billion
• The British government is not paying dementia enough attention
• A new railway will at last link Iran and Iraq
• Deterring would-be putschists in Africa is getting harder
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space
• America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
• The 30 Best Movies on Hulu This Week
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• Demand soars for Dutch first editions of book naming UK royals in race row
• Formula E now lets you stream every race from its first nine seasons for free
• Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?
• India is testing America's friendship
• The trials of Muhammad Yunus
• What happens to Gaza after the war?
• China's greying population is refusing to save for retirement
• The spat with India only adds to Justin Trudeau's woes
• The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
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• Pitch Deck Teardown: Scalestack's $1M AI sales tech seed deck
• Latin America remains a playground for Russian intelligence
• Which will grow faster: India or Indonesia?
• Marine Le Pen poses a greater threat than Giorgia Meloni
• Okta Hack Update Shows Challenges in Rapid Cyber Disclosures
• The idea of "holobionts" represents a paradigm shift in biology
• Turkey's sluggish post-earthquake reconstruction
• 31 Best Coffee Deals for Cyber Monday—Makers, Grinders, Mugs
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• Richard Leakey established Kenya as a prime source of hominid fossils
• Sci-fi RTS sequel Homeworld 3 will arrive on March 8
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• One response to school shootings in America: arm the teachers
• Families May Have to Make College Decisions Before Knowing Full Cost
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• Long COVID Rates Appear to Be Decreasing
• Italy's new government needs to make deep economic reforms
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How health-care costs stopped rising
• Hallmark Channel Won the Streaming Wars
• The end of Western naivety about China
• Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
• Smoke blackens the air in America's north-east
• A welcome return for Britain to the EU's main research programme
• Tiger Woods stirs 2024 hopes as unlikely comeback shows promise
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• Chinese apps are a mixed blessing for American big tech
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• The French debate the future of steak frites
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• Too little. Too late. Too slow. But could COP yet turn the tide on climate change?
• China is winning Africa's "white-gold" rush for lithium
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• Geert Wilders struggles towards power in the Netherlands
• Ofir Libstein had extraordinary dreams for his small patch
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• How to predict the outcome of a coin toss
• Why sexually transmitted infections are rising in America
• Scrapyards adopt new high-tech ways to dismantle cars
• Neiman Marcus Rejects $3 Billion Takeover Bid by Saks
• Which EU country is winning our economic pentathlon?
• Why People are Splurging on This $88 Lipstick
• How I survive: a seven-year-old's life in Gaza – video
• Xi Jinping wants to be loved by the global south
• What Russia's budget reveals about the war in Ukraine
• Are Ukraine's tactics working?
• A $3.8bn deal points to the future of car-parts suppliers
• Democrats are giddy from this week's electoral sweep
• 'My friends were amazed': Nigerian women break 'male' jobs barrier amid cost-of-living crisis
• Israeli soldiers fight to reach Hamas's headquarters
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
• American states wrestle with how to treat severe mental illness
• America's missing doctors
• Data on air bases suggest a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may not be imminent
• When should a founder step down?
• Failing to reintegrate Iraq's Sunni rebels could prove costly
• Guatemala's election produces a pleasant surprise
• 5 of the Greatest Natural History Hoaxes of All Time
• China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
• Deepsecrets - Secrets Scanner That Understands Code
• Tech's New Normal: Microcuts Over Growth at All Costs
• How an English miner's daughter rose to work in the White House
• Israel-Hamas truce talks stall after Mossad negotiators leave Qatar
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
• The disappearance of China's defence minister raises big questions
• What Kissinger Didn't Understand
• In north-east Ukraine the war is close, upending daily life
• Jokowi is building a political dynasty
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• Meta's Threads to Launch in Europe in App's Biggest Expansion Since Debut
• What is the royal race row and why is it back in the news?
• Joe Biden needs Mexico's co-operation on migration
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• How economists have underestimated Chinese consumption
• Thich Nhat Hanh believed that Buddhism should be a force for change
• Humidifiers vs Dehumidifiers vs Purifiers: Which One Do I Actually Need?
• Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• A centre-right maverick, Pieter Omtzigt, could win the Dutch election
• Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck will start at $60,990 before rebates
• Canada has a shortage of lifeguards
• OpenAI's Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
• The curse of the badly run meeting
• There's more than one way to spay a cat
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• We don't go to the movies for a history lesson, but shouldn't Napoleon at least be entertaining? | Rowan Moore
• How Vladimir Putin provokes—and complicates—the struggle against autocracy
• Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space
• Palestinians Are Locked Out of Google's Online Economy
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• What's Next for George Santos? Court Dates and, Maybe, Reality TV.
• Plato, pilates and pubs: has an Irish town found the secret to the good life?
• How Forest Mythology Leads to Preservation--And Plunder
• Does China face a lost decade?
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• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• What is killing white Britons?
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• The Fall of Sports Illustrated
• Russia paying wives of soldiers in Ukraine not to stage protests, says UK
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• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
• The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
• Could AI transform science itself?
• Elliott Erwitt's iconic Magnum photography: in pictures
• Why there is a bear market in rhinos
• Why diamonds are losing their allure
• The Financial Paradox Blocking Efforts to Fight Climate Change
• Kenya's cops are spinning wild tales
• Did America thwart an Indian assassination plot?
• Why you have an accent in a foreign language
• Egypt's government wants to erase a historic cemetery
• 7.6 magnitude quake strikes off southern Philippines, triggering tsunami warnings
• England's NHS is trying once again to collate patients' data
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• The genius of Jilly Cooper, queen of British bonkbusters
• 4 Months Later, the Pixel Fold Shows Google Needs to Do More - CNET
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• An interview with the head of Ukraine's defence intelligence
• China's influence in South-East Asia has grown. America's has waned
• Donald Trump's second term would be a protectionist nightmare
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• America's government isn't shutting down just yet
• Azerbaijan is close to taking control of Nagorno-Karabakh
• All parties are blaming each other for the dire situation in Gaza
• America's Federal Reserve could soon be flying blind
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• How Liberia and Sierra Leone ended their cycles of violence
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• Outrage against femicide is spreading in Italy
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• The fall of Nagorno-Karabakh: 'I've lost a child, and now a homeland' – video
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• A woman described as Iran's "Nelson Mandela" wins the Nobel peace prize
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• Instead of undoing Ataturk's legacy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed it
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• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
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• Why Chinese women are denied legal land rights
• Having shaken off nationalism, Europe risks civilisationalism
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• How remote islands underpin Japan's maritime power
• Chinese carmakers are under scrutiny in Europe
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• Rahul Gandhi is back in parliament
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• Giant Stone Age Cemetery Near Arctic Circle Surprises Archaeologists
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• Britain must overhaul the way it approves infrastructure
• A year after Iran was shaken by protests, zealots have tightened their grip
• Paris and Berlin compromise on reform of the electricity market
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• How Russian prisoners of war see Putin's invasion
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• Kevin McCarthy's sacking deepens the chaos in American government
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• France rolls out the red carpet for Britain
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• Unhinged Conspiracies, AI Doppelgangers, and the Fractured Reality of Naomi Klein
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