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• Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good
• JD Vance, Purr-fectly Dreadful
• After a season of Gaza protests, America's university graduates are polarised but resilient
• EU diplomats ordered to cancel parties after budget crunch
• Stalker 2 has been delayed (again) until November 20
• The truth behind Olena Zelenska's $1.1m Cartier haul
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• Global firms are tapping India's workers like never before
• How to survive a superpower split
• How Ecuador became Latin America's deadliest country
• Why the stockmarket is disappearing
• Where will the next coup be in Africa?
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• Google Parent's Ad Sale Growth Slows as AI Investments Soar
• Europe must massively boost financial backing for defence, says Saab chief
• The Junk in Your Index Fund Is Costing You Big-Time
• Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
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• Elon Musk's Starship makes a test flight without exploding
• Ledger launches Ledger Flex, a mid-range hardware crypto wallet
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• Marvel's Thunderbolts Comic-Con Footage Puts Together an Unorthodox Team
• Indians have grown used to getting nice things from politicians
• China views America's presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
• The ICC's threat to arrest Binyamin Netanyahu has shocked Israel
• The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon
• How to build a global business empire in the 21st century
• Antisemitism is on the rise in Britain
• This week China could rethink its economic policy
• Will IVF really be the next frontier in America's culture wars?
• Checks and Balance newsletter: How to forecast an election in an unpredictable America
• Wind turbines keep getting bigger
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• The Republicans who still haven't endorsed Donald Trump
• The lessons of woke Scrabble
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Donald Trump's 34 convictions mean for the presidential election
• Roadtesting the Olympics: barriers and bag checks but no white elephants
• What Ukraine's bloody battlefield is teaching medics
• DOJ says TikTok collected users' views on issues like abortion, gun control and religion
• Meet the maharajas of the world's biggest democracy
• How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
• Europe today is a case of lots of presidents yet nobody leading
• The Morning After: Reddit is blocking AI search engines that don't cough up for access
• The 21 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (July 2024)
• Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
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• 'Like judgment day': evacuees tell of fleeing Israel's assault on Khan Younis
• Severe drought is constraining the Panama Canal
• How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own
• To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts
• The best memes of 2021
• KAL's cartoon
• Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
• The world is bracing for Donald Trump's possible return
• The property firm that could break China's back
• Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
• Peru's president survives because she's not in charge
• Argentina's football clubs are resisting privatisation
• Espionage scandals are hurting Germany's far right
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
• JD Vance called for 'federal response' to block women from traveling for abortions
• Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?
• AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress
• Diego Maradona offers central bankers enduring lessons
• A new danger for Venezuela's autocrat
• Can Bill Ackman Turn Social-Media Stardom Into a Blockbuster IPO?
• What the remaking of Labour reveals about Sir Keir Starmer
• As the Euro-elections loom, Giorgia Meloni guards her right flank
• Turkey's President Erdogan faces a new challenge from Islamists
• Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan's airport after Silvio Berlusconi
• In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
• What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
• The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches
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• When will Ukraine join NATO?
• How the hard right both reflects and creates prejudice
• ABBA return—and pretend no time has passed—with "Voyage"
• The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
• We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos
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• NASA Cancels Its VIPER Moon Rover
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• Emmanuel Macron's centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
• A remarkable new era begins in South Africa
• Video Game Performers Are Going on Strike Over AI
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• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• 'I can't justify this military operation any more': the IDF reservists refusing to return to Gaza
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
• Attempts to make supply chains "resilient" are likely to fail
• The cost of Britain's cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukraine's war has created millions of broken families
• Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán warns EU on path to 'self-destruction'
• A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
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• Paul Alexander lived longer than anyone in an iron lung
• Singapore has achieved astounding economic success
• Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
• Volodymyr Zelensky's five-year term ends on May 20th
• Artworks in the Seine and a Swedish shipwreck: photos of the day – Friday
• Is America Inc's war for talent over?
• After a year of war, Sudan is a failing state
• Why Iranian dissidents love Cyrus, an ancient Persian king
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
• France is being thrown into uncharted territory
• The Israeli army is caught in a doom loop in Gaza
• No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
• Trump Promises to Make U.S. the 'Crypto Capital of the Planet and the Bitcoin Superpower'
• Members of US family gospel group the Nelons killed in plane crash
• Iran's attack has left Israel in a difficult position
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• The sorry story of children in care in England
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• Mexico's next president can reset relations with the United States
• The Best Books for the Olympics
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reduced poverty in Mexico
• Bans on dog meat sweep across Asia
• China is talking to Taiwan's next leader, just not directly
• People in the US: how do you stay cool in extreme heat?
• Facebook turned off the news in Canada. What happened next?
• A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
• The attempt on Trump's life is shocking, but not surprising
• After Sleeping on a Purple Mattress for 5 Years, I Have No Regrets
• 'Dark Oxygen' Discovered Coming from Mineral Deposits on Deep Seafloor
• A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions
• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
• McDonald's v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
• What is Crispr Gene Editing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Are Ukraine's tactics working?
• The world's most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
• Tracking ships in the Red Sea
• The Economist's agony uncle returns
• Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 Review: A Pretty Chromebook
• Tesla warns against wet towel charging trick two months too late
• KAL's cartoon
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• The week around the world in 20 pictures
• Eight charts illustrate 2023's extreme weather
• How Kay Jewelers and Zales Are Trying to Convince You to Buy More Jewelry Online
• The CEO's alternative summer reading list
• Antony Gormley's iron men take a stand at Houghton Hall
• America's rich never sell their assets. How should they be taxed?
• Streaming services are helping Arab producers liven up television
• Thomas Neff's idea rid the world of a third of its nuclear warheads
• Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
• Uber and Lyft Win California Ruling to Treat Drivers as Contractors
• Drew Afualo Will Never Stop Making Fun of Misogynist Men
• Narendra Modi cuddles up to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
• Nicolás Maduro's future on the ballot in tense Venezuelan election
• Google DeepMind's Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind Spot
• Foreign judges are fed up with Hong Kong's political environment
• The moment I knew: she grasped my hand – and we went from political comrades to lovers
• Why is Thai health care so good?
• What Israel's killing of aid workers means for Gaza
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to be a good follower
• How motherhood hurts careers
• Hollywood enters a frugal new era
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• AI video startup Runway reportedly trained on 'thousands' of YouTube videos without permission
• Starfleet Academy Is Recruiting Some Familiar Star Trek Faces
• South Korean voters—and spring onions—rebuke the president
• How a Russia-linked mine may keep the ANC in power
• Working from home and the US-Europe divide
• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• Best Cooling Mattresses for Hot Sleepers -- Tested by Experts
• The meaning of Donald Trump's Supreme Court victory
• At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
• LVMH is splurging on the Olympics
• Toyota Pulls Off a Fast and Furious Demo With Dual Drifting AI-Powered Race Cars
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• A Kenyan-led security mission finally starts to arrive in Haiti
• Royal stinker: how Henry VIII changed from heroic to hideous on our screens
• One of America's Hottest Entertainment Apps Is Chinese-Owned
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• Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia's government
• Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt
• War and climate change are overwhelming Somalia
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• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The Gaza orphanage director: I carried a small boy with cerebral palsy to safety – but he died soon after
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• LDAPWordlistHarvester - A Tool To Generate A Wordlist From The Information Present In LDAP, In Order To Crack Passwords Of Domain Accounts
• 'I'm good, I promise': the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player – podcast
• Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates?
• Five charts that show why the BJP expects to win India's election
• Non-white American parents are embracing AI faster than white ones
• Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to try to stop the Vietnam war
• Russia's gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
• Xi Jinping plays social engineer
• Haiti's transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
• The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
• The semiconductor choke-point
• Google DeepMind's Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind Spot
• Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us
• At last, Wall Street has something to cheer
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Going green could bring huge benefits for India's economy
• Nissan Motor Cuts Sales, Profit Forecasts After Weak Quarter
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• Video: Busting globalisation myths
• A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
• The EU should be the world's heat-pump pioneer
• Russia's latest crime in Mariupol: stealing property
• A Fed Rate Cut Is Finally Within View
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• Can Ecuador free itself from the grasp of the drug lords?
• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• Kamala Harris and the Countdown to Election Day
• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
• A spectre looms over Hong Kong's property market
• Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
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• Trump's Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History
• What next for Pakistan?
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• Nigel Farage takes over as leader of Reform UK
• Britain's NHS reels from a ransomware attack
• The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
• China's high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
• We're hiring a senior India correspondent
• Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• The fight over meat-free meat pits Europe's traditionalists against foodie innovators
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• The cracks in America's ultra-strong labour market
• Britain's army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
• A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
• Alleged 'Maniac Murder Cult' Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews
• Europe can't decide how to unplug from China
• Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI
• Toriyama Akira was probably Japan's greatest manga master
• Katherine Ryan: 'My love language is intimacy. That's what my comedy is about'
• Can Britain's "mission-led" government defy gravity?
• Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron arrives on Max in September
• 'Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us': David Lynch on music, friendship and life's biggest mystery
• For a glimpse at Japan's future, look at its convenience stores
• Mexico's president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
• England's school reforms are earning fans abroad
• Can Elon Musk's xAI take on OpenAI?
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• A death, an illness, and an uncertain Middle East
• Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals
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• Ask Shrimsley: do we really have to play a game?
• What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
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• How not to name a new car
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• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• A war correspondent's intimate portrait of an embattled minority
• The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
• America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom
• Cinque Terre's Path of Love reopens with charges to ease Insta-tourism
• Hard-right populists are pushing their way into the mainstream
• It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• Cashless talk
• Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
• China unites America and Europe in alarm
• Welcome to the new era of global sea power
• China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves)
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• The three steps on America's ladder of military escalation
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• Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
• How India's imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• Why fake research is rampant in China
• Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
• A rocket hit Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, after Israel struck a Gaza school
• How IT Departments Scrambled to Address the CrowdStrike Chaos
• A reformer wanting a nuclear deal with America wins Iran's election
• Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
• Narendra Modi needs to win over low-income Indians
• The military dictatorship controls less than 50% of Myanmar
• Some Australians are increasingly sceptical of AUKUS
• Sheikh Hasina faces her biggest crisis in years
• CrowdStrike Outage Puts Its Financial Reporting Under Scrutiny, Too
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• China's tin-eared approach to the world
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• Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Joe Biden must face the sad truth
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• A live-streamed attempted coup in Congo shakes the region
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• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• "Our Europe can die": Macron's dire message to the continent
• New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever
• The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
• Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Ukraine's enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
• Latin America's farmers are cashing in on hot hot-cocoa prices
• Robert Badinter persuaded France to abolish the guillotine
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• How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter
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• 'A real pioneer': King Charles seeks to embody green values in royal estate
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• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
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• The covid-19 pandemic is hanging over Britain's election
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• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
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• China's ties with Russia are growing more solid
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