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• Can the Philippines keep Donald Trump on its side?
• The hell of the sandwich lunch
• Joseph Lowery died on March 27th
• Australia's enthusiasm for immigration is being tested
• Bar culture has arrived in Saudi Arabia, albeit without the booze
• Business
• Trump Says He Wants to 'Clean Out' Gaza, Send Refugees to Egypt and Jordan
• Adams Asks for Voters' Trust as Democrats Argue He Is in Thrall to Trump
• Trump Executive Orders Create Confusion for Science and Health Agencies
• China's ties with Russia are growing more solid
• Britain's army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
• Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI
• KAL's cartoon
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• What Will It Take for Home Buyers to Start Asking for a Disaster Discount?
• Donald Trump claims victory
• Rural Colombia welcomes gangs that mete out vigilante justice
• Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown
• Nawal El-Saadawi died on March 21st
• Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
• Congo-Brazzaville has lost a big chunk of its oil revenue
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
• How far-right extremism is becoming a global threat
• The archbishop and the abuser
• France's government faces the imminent loss of a vote of confidence
• America's endless summers are good for mosquitoes, too
• This week's cover
• Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
• China unites America and Europe in alarm
• AMLO's dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
• Citigroup, Wall Street's biggest loser, is at last on the up
• India's largest airline is flying high
• The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
• What Is Genetic Testing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• America's anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist
• Young people are having less fun
• Bob Dole believed in hard work, not words
• The IMF has a protest problem
• Everyone wants to meet Syria's new rulers
• Are Ukraine's tactics working?
• Obituary: Franco Zeffirelli died on June 15th
• Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way
• Business
• Germany's fractious coalition falls apart—and how!
• Mozambique's opposition leader flies home into chaos
• South Korea's writers and directors play Squid Game
• Ahmed al-Sharaa declares himself president of Syria
• India's government implements a controversial citizenship law
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
• Should I Leave My American Partner?
• A stealth attack came close to compromising the world's computers
• Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
• This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia's dirty tricks
• Donald Trump cries "invasion" to justify an immigration crackdown
• Millions are travelling across China for lunar new year
• Politics
• Nations Denounce Trump Tariff on Metals and Warn of Retaliation
• Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia
• Is India's economy slowing down?
• The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
• Now Wanted in Silicon Valley: Ho-Hum Businesses With Thin Profit Margins
• No wonder Macron's gambling: Europe is home to the high-roller
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit
• The world faces its worst trade wars since the 1930s
• The relationship between Israel and Turkey is at breaking point
• Lebanon's army is less useless than its reputation suggests
• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump revives McKinley's imperial legacy
• China needs its frightened officials to save the economy
• Illegal fishing fleets plunder the oceans
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
• Must try harder
• Politics
• South Korea's ban on praising the North is ridiculous
• Britain's prison service is caught in a doom loop
• A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
• European regulators are about to become more political
• India's startup scene is picking up speed again
• Unknown soldiers
• Regulators have private markets in their sights
• Mexico's foreign policy is unambitious and erratic
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The genocide case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
• Quantifying the rise of America's far right
• Why being wrong is good for you
• Bans on dog meat sweep across Asia
• When China hides disasters in a memory hole
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• Attitudes towards experimenting on monkeys are diverging
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• Richard Leakey established Kenya as a prime source of hominid fossils
• The Quad finally gets serious on security
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• When central banks face sanctions
• The allure of the company town
• How bosses should play politics: the cautionary tale of Elon Musk
• A Prague-Berlin train loses its old-world dining cars
• Israel is ratcheting up its shadow war with Iran
• Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
• Our First Look at Mortal Kombat II Is Exactly the One You Wanted
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world
• ACLU Warns DOGE's 'Unchecked' Access Could Violate Federal Law
• Politics
• Can Xi Jinping take Hong Kong "from stability to prosperity"?
• The economy sees repeated boom and bust cycles
• Manchester City v Real Madrid: Champions League playoff round, first leg – live
• Confusion reigns in Pakistan's rigged election
• How Russian casualties in Ukraine compare with other wars
• Inside the Houthis' moneymaking machine
• Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
• France is not alone in its fiscal woes
• NativeDump - Dump Lsass Using Only Native APIs By Hand-Crafting Minidump Files (Without MinidumpWriteDump!)
• Russia's vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out
• The weekly cartoon
• Sick and wounded Palestinian children wait for evacuation as Rafah crossing reopens – video
• How China will strike back at Trump
• A bold plan to close the deadly Darién Gap unravels
• EU Conditionally Approves International Paper's $7.16 Billion DS Smith Buy
• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
• How to Watch Sony's PlayStation State of Play Event for February 2025
• China's leaders are less popular than they might think
• Mourid Barghouti died on February 14th
• The President Is on a Mission to Destroy the 'Enemy From Within'
• War in space is no longer science fiction
• Florida is the first state to reject an abortion-rights measure
• The favourite in Indonesia's presidential election has a sordid past
• The trouble with Elon Musk's robotaxi dream
• Donald Trump is losing ground to Ron DeSantis ahead of 2024
• Footage shows plane with 64 onboard colliding with helicopter near Washington DC - video
• After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out
• Russia's friends are a motley—and shrinking—crew
• Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's dictator, thumbs his nose at Joe Biden
• Britain's Labour government is keen on deporting illegal migrants
• The sweet story of Peru's blueberry boom
• France stares into a "colossal" budgetary abyss
• The Belt and Road, as seen from China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Behind the surge in migrants crossing America's northern border
• TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope
• Is Julius Malema the most dangerous man in South Africa?
• Lawrence MacEwen made a tiny island prosper
• By resisting arrest, South Korea's president challenges democracy
• Sérgio Mendes sent Brazil's party spirit out into the world
• The Hindu right's pro-cow policies are terrible for India's cows
• Ceci n'est pas un divorce: why surging separatism won't break Belgium
• The ubiquitous J.B. Pritzker, the man behind the Democrats' party
• Should you have to prove your age before watching porn?
• Recent special elections bode well for Democrats
• Canada's wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
• Britain and the EU find it easier to talk about guns than butter
• The Germany-shaped void at Europe's heart
• The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions
• This week's cover
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A harrowing rape trial in France has revived debate about consent
• Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
• KAL's cartoon
• Vera Lynn died on June 18th
• Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
• Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
• How to provoke the fury of Xi Jinping
• Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia's economy soaring
• Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• Scotland's failure to build homes is mainly due to its government
• Syrian rebels have dealt a blow to Vladimir Putin's naval ambitions
• Spain shows Europe how to keep up with America's economy
• The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
• Is America Inc's war for talent over?
• As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an "attention recession"
• Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists
• Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy
• NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover
• Martin Rowson on Starmer aligning with the US in refusing to sign the Paris declaration on AI – cartoon
• DOGE Is Failing on Its Own Terms
• Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
• The return of a mask stolen by Belgium is stoking violence in Congo
• The downfall of a Philippine mayor may be linked to Chinese gangs
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• The best memes of 2021
• How Russia has revived NATO
• Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
• Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse
• America is less dominant in defence spending than you might think
• What would a rout do to the Tories?
• Xi Jinping repeats imperial China's mistakes
• New Saints issue warning over sales to Saudi Pro League after Al-Orobah deal
• Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship
• Why do some people risk their lives for fun?
• Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China
• Argentina's Javier Milei begins his radical experiment in libertarian rule
• India's startups pray for a Hindu super-app
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
• Brazil's new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
• When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
• The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections
• How to get a free meal in China
• The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliver
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• Business
• Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor
• Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
• A global recession is not in prospect
• Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
• The green revolution will stall without Latin America's lithium
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The European Union will badly miss Angela Merkel
• After Nayib Bukele's crushing, unconstitutional victory, what next?
• Canada and America have been fighting about timber for 40 years
• Sudan's football team wants to reach the World Cup
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• When will China's GDP overtake America's?
• A new gonorrhoea drug was developed by a non-profit foundation
• Violent jihadists are getting frustrated by the new Syria
• Elon Musk's DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts
• The scary new map of the South China Sea
• For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand
• Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks
• KAL's cartoon
• What war mobilisation might look like in China
• Willie Levi died on April 23rd
• What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump's victory
• Jan Morris died on November 20th
• A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps
• Monster Hunter Wilds Hands-On: Streamlining Hunts for Newbies and Veterans
• Economic and financial indicators
• The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
• KAL's cartoon
• As the French hard right triumphs in EU elections, Macron calls snap vote
• Business
• America's presidential election marks a fork in the road for Ukraine
• For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn
• Who are the main contenders to be Iran's next president?
• The cost of the global arms race
• Donald Tusk mulls which of the previous government's plans to axe
• Poland's ruling coalition divides over women's rights
• This Anker Solar Generator Drops From $1,068 to $499 for Amazon's Presidents' Day Sale
• Some forms of chronic pain are particularly mysterious
• Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
• Business
• Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Bangladesh's new ruler is in a race against time
• Ukraine is a booming market for Balkan arms makers
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas's tunnels
• Should every schoolchild eat free?
• Politics
• Can Lula fix Brazil's fiscal mess?
• This week's covers
• Obituary: Pierre Mambele died on June 8th
• Bridget Jones and NY fashion week: photos of the weekend
• Anti-lockdown protests have been hijacked by conspiracy theorists
• Swiss franc, Japanese yen Rise as DeepSeek News Boosts Safe Havens
• Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
• The weekly cartoon
• How a Spanish province became the world's truffle leader
• How China sees Gaza
• Elderly populations mean more government spending
• Donald Trump's victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies
• Issey Miyake saw clothes in a completely new way
• Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
• Lucy Letby and the medical experts who believe she is innocent – podcast
• Nostalgia for China's boom years drives a TV hit
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
• There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine
• A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
• Business
• Is the world economy in a debt trap?
• Britain's government is mapping underground cable and pipes
• Usha Vance, wife of Donald Trump's VP pick, was once a Democrat
• An unusual museum in China is dedicated to Vinegar Joe
• This week's cover
• Josep Almudéver died on May 23rd
• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• Earth may once have had a planetary ring
• Does Britain need a National Wealth Fund?
• This week's cover
• China is overhauling its company law
• Could AI transform science itself?
• In Relationships, Am I the Asshole?
• The Money Money Money Issue
• Israeli retaliation in Lebanon seems inevitable
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Iran and Israel's shadow war explodes into the open
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Elon Musk's journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump
• Some good news about America's fertility problem
• Inside a Fusion Startup's Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony
• What has four stomachs and could change the world?
• The tricky politics of choosing Oxford's next chancellor
• On shame, Liz Truss and the turnip Taliban
• The 14 Best Pillows We Found After Months of Nighttime Testing (2025)
• Two groups are least happy about Labour's budget
• A Wall Street state of mind has captured America
• Pick up two Blink Mini security cameras for only $38
• The Middle East's bizarre waiting game: ceasefire or Armageddon?
• Sanctions are sinking Russia's flagship gas project
• KAL's cartoon
• The WIRED Guide to Aliens
• A maverick judge tosses out Donald Trump's classified-documents case
• Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
• A short history of Russia and Ukraine
• William Anders took the photo that kicked off the environmental movement
• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
• Ginni Thomas, battle-hardened conservative and bugaboo of Democrats
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• Erdogan's empire
• America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission
• How will Labour reform Britain's public services?
• Citizens' assemblies are increasingly popular
• How Yemen's dominant Houthis blackmail foreign aid agencies
• Taiwan's political drama is paralysing its government
• China's quest to become a robot superpower
• What the remaking of Labour reveals about Sir Keir Starmer
• Loons and the Tory leadership battle in Britain
• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
• BuzzFeed is taking on Instagram, TikTok, X with a new social platform designed to spread 'joy'
• The flight from southern Lebanon has been swift
• Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI
• Unexpectedly, the cost of big cyber-attacks is falling
• An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster
• An unfinished election may shape a swing state's future
• The semiconductor choke-point
• A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump's AI priorities
• This week's cover
• Obituary: Sutopo Purwo Nugroho died on July 7th
• Brazil's biggest drug gang has gone global
• An expert on civil war issues a warning about America
• How to escape from China to America
• The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
• An outrage that even China's supine media has called out
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's cover
• Reviving ancient viruses can help fight modern ones
• Britain's oil and gas industry faces an uncertain future
• A new diplomatic struggle is unfolding over Taiwan
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
• Julian Bream died on August 14th
• The next American president will be a China hawk
• India throws another opposition leader in jail as elections loom
• Why everyone should think like a lawyer
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• Economic and financial indicators
• China's fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa's coasts
• Fathers are doing more child care in East Asia
• Breast milk's benefits are not limited to babies
• The states that will decide America's next president
• Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas's problems
• The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 8 Best Touchscreen Gloves (2025), Tested and Reviewed
• China and Australia are beefing up their Pacific policing
• Imperius - Make An Linux Kernel Rootkit Visible Again
• Desmond Tutu believed that truth was the best weapon
• Mozambique's ruling party wins a dodgy election
• French investigators say 'all hypotheses remain open' in deaths of British couple
• Video: Busting globalisation myths
• The world this week
• Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• The house-price supercycle is just getting going
• Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crime
• Strong Storm Expected to Soak Southern California, Raising Fears of Mudslides
• Don't blame "quiet quitting" on Gen-Z
• OpenAI's latest model will change the economics of software
• Will the trouble ever end for Volkswagen and its rivals?
• Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran's wars
• SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
• The new front line of British politics is just lovely
• The 5 Best Travel Pillows (2025), Tested and Reviewed
• Winemakers are building grape-picking robots
• African elites should align themselves with their countries' needs
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse
• Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes
• Google's DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry
• As Iran scares the Middle East, at home its regime rots
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards
• Over a million Paraguayans disappear in the latest census
• Ratan Tata, a consequential and beloved figure in Indian business
• National payment systems are proliferating
• Trump's FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein
• Hizbullah's sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable
• University protests about Gaza spread to the Middle East
• Remembering the Normandy landings
• Saba Capital wages war on underperforming British investment trusts
• Brother Andrew secretly carried Bibles behind the Iron Curtain
• The best films of 2021
• This week's cover
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Kaja Kallas, the plain-talking Estonian tipped to be the EU's top diplomat
• America boosts Israel's missile shield. What did it get in return?
• AI can bring back a person's own voice
• Is Uruguay too stable for its own good?
• Jack Jennings was one of the Allied POWs who built the Burma Railway
• Pasha Lee went from Ukrainian screen idol to volunteer
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court
• Olivia de Havilland died on July 26th
• The lessons of woke Scrabble
• The drug-overdose capitals of Europe
• AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century
• AI can predict tipping points before they happen
• Mexico's president wants to develop the poorer south
• The phenomenon of sexual strangulation in Britain
• Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins
• Is South Africa ready for a change in government?
• The African investment environment is at its worst in years
• Marianne Faithfull battled labels all her life
• This week's cover
• Douglas Lenat trained computers to think the old-fashioned way
• Farewell, Don Draper: AI is coming for advertising
• Economic bright spots are getting harder to find in Thailand
• Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandal
• Brazil's new president is visiting Joe Biden to boost relations
• Walmart's latest product? Its customers
• Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher
• Politics
• The Trump tariff saga offers Canada's Liberals a lifeline
• SafeLine - Serve As A Reverse Proxy To Protect Your Web Services From Attacks And Exploits
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Across the Arab world, Islamists' brief stints in power have failed
• How not to name a new car
• America, China and the race to the Moon
• The best, and worst, places to live in the Americas
• The family feud that holds the Philippines back
• Whale Songs Follow Basic Human Language Rules
• A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution
• What China means when it says "peace"
• How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks
• The weekly cartoon
• The horrors of the reply-all email thread
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Could life exist on one of Jupiter's moons?
• Could supersonic air travel make a comeback?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to fix palliative care in Britain
• Uruguay is losing its reputation as Latin America's success story
• TikTok advises Android users in the US to sideload the app
• This week's covers
• There's lots of gold in urban waste dumps
• The G7 sketches a development-finance initiative to counter China's
• Dan Osborn shows some Democratic ideas can outperform the party
• The curse of the Michelin star
• Lessons from the pandemic
• Would you really die for your country?
• Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head
• Canadians are starting to sour on migration
• The wrecking of Gaza's health system goes beyond its hospitals
• Obituary: Anwar Congo died on October 25th
• KAL's cartoon
• Ukraine's draft dodgers are living in fear
• Producing fake information is getting easier
• Obituary: Bob Hawke died on May 16th
• Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally
• Inside Bashar al-Assad's dungeons
• The Trump effect could upend the Middle East
• Meet the maharajas of the world's biggest democracy
• Alcohol-free drinks are becoming big business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• To help schoolchildren in poor countries, reduce lead poisoning
• How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes
• North Korea's hackers are after intel, not just crypto
• How to behave in lifts: an office guide
• Moldova's pro-EU president has won re-election
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad
• Taylor Swift, imperfect capitalist?
• China wants women to stay home and bear children
• Paris's stunning vision for the Olympics wins a gold medal
• This week's covers
• Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure
• Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance
• Youngsters are fleeing Japan's once-mighty civil service
• U.S. Military Abandons STEM Recruiting Conference Over 'Woke' Concerns
• The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
• America's banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
• Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last
• 2025: The Year of the AI App
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China is backing opposing sides in Myanmar's civil war
• Best Robot Vacuum (2025), Tested and Reviewed
• Palmer Luckey and Anduril want to shake up armsmaking
• Birubala Rabha fought to end the stigmatisation of women
• The deep sea is home to "dark oxygen"
• Kamala Harris carries the torch, and the burden, of Bidenomics
• A short history of India in eight maps
• YouTube AI updates include auto dubbing expansion, age ID tech, and more
• What was the motive of Trump's would-be assassin?
• How to decode Kamala Harris's foreign policy
• China is now the world leader in coffee shops
• We need to talk about Europe's Kevins
• Transit vans are the key to Ford's future
• Donald Rumsfeld died on June 29th
• Netanyahu Says Fighting in Gaza Will Resume if Hostages Are Not Freed Saturday
• Politics
• Why China's confidence crisis goes unfixed
• Britain's electric-car roll-out is hitting speed bumps
• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good
• Should the world fear China's chipmaking binge?
• Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro mount an insurrection in Brazil
• How bush pigs saved Madagascar's baobabs
• The future lies with electric vehicles
• How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top
• The world needs a better World Health Organisation
• Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
• The case for persisting with foreign aid
• Why is it so hard for Indians to get a visa?
• A remarkable new era begins in South Africa
• Spain's proposed house tax on foreigners will not fix its shortage
• Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?
• Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum's energy plan
• Russia's missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective
• Muhammad Yunus, a microcredit pioneer, is Bangladesh's interim leader
• How lower American interest rates will boost Africa
• Will Sir Keir Starmer have a mandate to change Britain?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Donald Trump's defining decade
• Xi Jinping's revealing response to floods and heatwaves
• Why Kamala Harris's chances of victory just jumped
• French election tracker: Marine Le Pen's hard-right falters
• Political turmoil is tearing Peru apart
• Why the hype for hybrid cars will not last
• Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing
• Suspected Sabotage of Deep-Sea Cable Triggers First NATO-Led Response
• Pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• Militant Uyghurs in Syria threaten the Chinese government
• Eggs Hit by Bird Flu Crisis as Farmers Lose Flocks to Virus
• Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
• Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
• Argentina could get its first libertarian president
• Chinese art students scrawled Communist graffiti in London's Brick Lane
• The world's most, and least, walkable cities
• The cautionary tale of Huy Fong's hot sauce
• Business
• Could the Israel-Hamas war trigger unrest across the Arab world?
• A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible
• Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
• Donald Trump's potential SCOTUS picks
• Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs
• As Lula takes over, Brazil's economic prospects are looking up
• How Iran covered up the damage from Israel's strikes
• Politics
• The UFC, Dana White and the rise of bloodsport entertainment
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• A trial in New York exposes US-Mexican counter-narcotics tensions
• A new tragedy shows anarchy rules in Gaza
• KAL's cartoon
• President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is militarising public security
• Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Penn and the hunt for an American hostage
• Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful
• The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
• A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America
• Volunteers with Down's syndrome could help find Alzheimer's drugs
• Moon or Mars? The US Might Face a Tough Choice for Future Missions
• Claudia Sheinbaum's landslide victory is a danger for Mexico
• Iran needs a new national-security strategy
• Could the war in Ukraine go nuclear?
• Dealers are selling war trophies to buy weapons for Ukraine
• Best Sports Drinks of 2025
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 27 religious groups sue Trump administration over immigration enforcement policy
• Earth's Inner Core Is Changing Shape
• Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum
• Three charts show that America's imports are booming
• Russia's bloody summer offensive is hurting Ukraine
• What campus protesters get wrong about divestment
• At last, Wall Street has something to cheer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
• Trump administration stops nationwide EV charging program
• Elon Musk Can Find His $2-Trillion Federal Spending Cut in Nuclear Weapons
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Burberry Sees Positive Signs as Turnaround Plan Continues
• XMGoat - Composed of XM Cyber terraform templates that help you learn about common Azure security issues
• South Korean voters—and spring onions—rebuke the president
• NATO defence spending is rising, but not fast enough
• What Narendra Modi's third term may look like
• The killing of a Russian general shows Ukraine's spies remain lethal
• Salman Rushdie tells stabbing trial: 'It occurred to me quite clearly I was dying'
• Florida faces a triple threat to its environment
• Business
• America is concerned about social media. China is, too
• How to invest like a MAGA bigwig
• How EU do-goodery risks harming Africa's small farmers
• Obituary: Judith Kerr died on May 23rd
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• The world's most liveable cities in 2023
• India's consumers are changing how they buy
• Champions League Soccer: Livestream Sporting CP vs. Dortmund From Anywhere
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• Peruvians are debating how to protect isolated tribes
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• Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long stalemate
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?
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• France's new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
• What the world wants from Joe Biden
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• Can India's garments industry benefit from Bangladesh's turmoil?
• A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
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• Can big food adapt to healthier diets?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What identity politics will Kamala Harris practise?
• Emmanuel Macron on how to rescue Europe
• Why Uruguayans rejected a government splurge
• Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan's airport after Silvio Berlusconi
• The rape and murder of a doctor in India is fuelling outrage
• Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The death of the president changes the power dynamic in Iran
• Yes sir: a bizarre initiation ritual for Indonesia's cabinet
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• Is MAGA great for India?
• Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine
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• How India can compete in labour-intensive manufacturing
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• Blighty newsletter: Why phone signal in Britain is awful
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• Leading China Property Developer Reports Huge loss, in Sign of Widening Real-Estate Woes
• China's push to create a single national identity
• I'm a Beauty Writer, and These Are My 8 Favorite Products (2025)
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• How DeepSeek will upend the AI pecking order
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• How Yahya Sinwar's death will change the Middle East
• Why are so many Indians piling into stocks?
• Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and much more
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• What a buzzy startup reveals about Britain's biotech sector
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• Singapore cracks down on Chinese influence
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• Sir Keir Starmer meets the public. Sort of
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• Romania's hard right looks strong in a year of four elections
• Push to Drop Adams Charges Reveals a Justice Dept. Under Trump's Sway
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• The weekly cartoon
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• USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk's DOGE Decimates Agency
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• Blighty newsletter: How Canada's Conservatives are shaping the Tories
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• Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging
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• Is obesity a disease?
• The Sue Gray saga casts doubt on Keir Starmer's managerial chops
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• 11 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed
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• Checks and Balance newsletter: America's health-care paradox
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• Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico's embassy
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• A "Divine Comedy" ballet, 700 years after Dante's death
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• Great bunch of fellers: the heroic wartime lumberjills – in pictures
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• Is Britain's government at war with the wealthy?
• The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
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• Kickstarter is rolling out new tools for backers, including a way to split pledges into four payments
• The path ahead for China's Belt and Road Initiative
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• At long last, Europe's economy is starting to grow
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• Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
• How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
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• Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
• Which parts of the world are becoming more prone to wildfires?
• Ramadan could see respite for Gaza, or widening violence
• Will war snuff out the Gulf's global business ambitions?
• Parlacen, a bizarre parliament, is a refuge for bent politicians
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• It was hard for any viewer to look away from Sidney Poitier
• America's fentanyl epidemic, explained in six charts
• Pål Enger never quite knew why he had to steal "The Scream"
• David Lammy's plan to shake up Britain's Foreign Office
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• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Herbert Kickl, Austria's hard-right ideologue who played the long game
• China has embraced pets, but animal welfare is still a problem
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Latin America remains a playground for Russian intelligence
• Volkswagen's woes illustrate Germany's creeping deindustrialisation
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• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners
• Obituary: Robert Morgenthau died on July 21st
• The EU's best-laid plans for expansion are clashing with reality
• An interview with the military commander of Syria's new masters
• Obituary: Graham Vick believed glorious music belonged to everyone
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• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• How King Charles III counts his swans
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• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• How the best British employers find and promote their staff
• Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
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• Joseph Lowery died on March 27th
• Congo brings back the death penalty
• Kamala Harris moves ahead—just—in our final election forecast
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• NASA insists that two astronauts are not "stranded" in space
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• Ishiba Shigeru will become Japan's next prime minister
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