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• Abe Shinzo believed that Japan should assert itself in the world
• Riyadh Air is betting on a tourist surge to Saudi Arabia
• Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat
• Nikki Haley Is Criticized for Failing to Mention Slavery as Cause of Civil War
• Does China's fear of floating exceed its fear of deflation?
• The speech police are coming for social media
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• Venezuela's autocrat launches a massive corruption probe
• Which city is the cheapest in the world?
• Sabre-tooth tigers and dire wolves were in trouble before they vanished
• Airborne taxi ranks are coming to a sky near you
• Can America's stockmarket rally last?
• This week's covers
• KAL's cartoon
• As war looms Israel calls for 1.1m people to evacuate northern Gaza
• Beefing up Poland's armed forces
• Gypsy Rose Blanchard released from prison for 2015 murder of her mother
• Congo's crucial election may be heading for disaster
• In a World First, a Patient's Antibody Cells Were Just Genetically Engineered
• A caste census reopens old grudges in India
• Engadget's Games of the Year 2023
• The many contradictions of Sam Altman
• Why Kentucky's Democratic governor is heading for re-election
• Best podcasts of the week: Kick off 2024 with a self-help show free from 'delusional positivity'
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's banks may be loaded up with hidden bad loans
• Newark may have found a fix for chronic homelessness
• The curious case of Nick Clegg
• The world's first pathway for individually designed drugs
• Lamborghini Revuelto 2024 Review, Specs, Price, Availability
• The magical thinking behind Britain's Rwanda bill
• Henry Kissinger, a statesman beyond reproach, in China at least
• Europe is struggling to find the money
• China's missing foreign minister loses his job
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• By averting a government shutdown, Kevin McCarthy risks his job
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
• A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4
• Canadians are starting to sour on migration
• Brazil's hinterland now resembles Texas
• Best Cookbooks of 2023: Grilling, Baking, Fermenting, Cocktails
• China's deep-water fishing fleet is the world's most rapacious
• Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• Rupert Murdoch isn't going anywhere just yet
• Joker 2: Folie à Deux Reveals New Looks at Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix
• Why young consumers love Birkenstocks
• How to think about the Google anti-monopoly trial
• African leaders want debt relief for climate action
• It was hard for any viewer to look away from Sidney Poitier
• "The Harder They Fall" offers a new take on the Old West
• Hamas's attack was an Israeli intelligence failure on multiple fronts
• Mexico's gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sources and acknowledgments
• What would Europe do if Trump won?
• "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" show that blockbusters could save the cinema
• Benjamin Zephaniah stayed angry all his life
• The firepower of Iran-backed militias, in maps
• Business
• The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• How China uses UNESCO to rewrite history
• An Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan is on the point of starvation
• Construction Loans, Like Holiday Guests, Might Hang Around Too Long
• Sam Altman's Knack for Dodging Bullets---With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends
• The legacy of Liz Truss
• Revisited: Cost of the crown part 2 – duchies, diamonds and Dalís
• How to avoid a common investment mistake
• David Bowie delved into his own past on "Toy"
• The Return of the Pagans
• Muhammad Amir Muhammad Khan fought India's government for five decades
• Santa Might Have One Last Gift for Investors
• The 8 Best Video Games of 2023
• Bougainville looks to reopen mine that sparked Pacific island civil war
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
• Firefly's Alpha Rocket Put a Satellite in the Wrong Orbit
• It's OK to gerrymander, as long you discriminate by politics
• Fiction: A Year in Reflection
• A centre-right maverick, Pieter Omtzigt, could win the Dutch election
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
• How one pandemic made another one worse
• Geert Wilders struggles towards power in the Netherlands
• Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day
• Bowel cancer is rising among young people
• You Know It's a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• The Art of Asking Your Parents for Money
• Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
• How Taiwan is shaped by its history and identity
• NASA Astronauts Test Out Moon Elevator for 2025 Landing Mission
• Cristina Calderón was the only full-blooded member of her people
• How to get the lying out of hiring
• The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here
• Pharma's big push for a new generation of obesity drugs
• Tell us your favourite TV shows of 2023
• Pasha Lee went from Ukrainian screen idol to volunteer
• Joe Biden should admit Republicans are (partly) right about border security
• A $3.8bn deal points to the future of car-parts suppliers
• When can American officials block citizens on social media?
• Can Egypt be persuaded to accept Gazan refugees?
• Britain's national parks are not protecting nature
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• Surge in border crossings creates political upheaval in the US
• Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure
• This Art Exhibition on Video Games Breaks You Out of Your Comfort Zone
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• CloakQuest3r - Uncover The True IP Address Of Websites Safeguarded By Cloudflare
• Egypt's rushed election shows Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is nervous
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ethiopia's prime minister wants a Red Sea harbour
• China is stoking anger over Japan's release of nuclear wastewater
• James Lovelock changed the way human beings look at the Earth
• California is losing people, but this region wouldn't know it
• How Israeli settler violence is forcing Palestinians to flee their homes – video
• Latin America's most powerful new gang built a human-trafficking empire
• Three climate fights will dominate COP28
• Can computing clean up its act?
• Foreign investors unwind $33bn bet on China growth rebound
• Business
• How Japan poses a threat to the global financial system
• The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms | Ross Barkan
• Netanyahu wages war and fights for his own survival
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
• The prospects for Joe Biden's package of aid for allies
• "Aftermath" is a piercing study of Germany after 1945
• To beat populists, sensible policymakers must up their game
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• The EU's rotating presidency should be scrapped
• This week's cover
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• Latin America's single mothers are being left behind
• Elon Musk's New Monkey Death Claims Spur Fresh Demands for an SEC Investigation
• Researchers Uncover the 'Most Sophisticated' iPhone Exploit Ever
• Nicaragua's dictator goes after Miss Universe
• The New The Color Purple Finds Its Own Rhythm
• How not to motivate your employees
• Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient
• One Life review – Anthony Hopkins in extraordinary true story of 'British Schindler'
• The curse of the badly run meeting
• Amazon's Latest Echo Show 8 Is Down to a New All-Time Low Price for Prime Members - CNET
• The year in World Cups: how South Africa won rugby's battle of fine margins
• OMV, Austria's energy major, reimagines its future
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• From glacier babies to a Barbie debate: 7 great global stories you might have missed
• What if Hollywood blockbusters were remade as workplace dramas?
• The growing global movement to restrain house prices
• America Should Be More Like Operation Warp Speed
• An accidental discovery in rural California raised biosecurity fears
• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
• End-to-End Encrypted Instagram and Messenger Chats: Why It Took Meta 7 Years
• Hollywood's strike enters its final act, as writers reach a deal
• A vision for the Palestinians after the war
• Refugee-friendly Canada tightens its border with the United States
• Instead of undoing Ataturk's legacy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed it
• Swimming's ruling on transgender women continues a trend
• Extreme Weather Has Long-Term Health Consequences
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• The Fight Over Apple's iMessage and Those Green Bubbles
• Directors pick the soundtracks for NPR's shows. Here are their own 2023 playlists
• New Zealand tires of its cuddly liberal government
• We Found 14 Popular Christmas Toys Worth Gifting (and 3 to Avoid)
• Why migration is in such a mess once more
• Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison
• Is Britain's plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda salvageable?
• Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on
• New York's Airbnb Ban Is Causing a Christmas Crunch
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A glimpse of the Conservative Party after Rishi Sunak
• Egypt's bread subsidies are unsustainable
• Scientists want to fix tooth decay with stem cells
• Ukraine Is Crowdfunding Its Reconstruction
• Journalists Had 'No Idea' About OpenAI's Deal to Use Their Stories
• How pop culture went multipolar
• Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the culture wars came for grizzly bears
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• Investors are paying close attention to the world's safest assets
• If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
• Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India's past
• A new treatment for Alzheimer's offers hope—but raises questions, too
• Business
• 'Rebel Moon' Director Zack Snyder on Violence, Loss, and Extreme Fandom
• Kenya wants to pioneer a new African approach to global warming
• China removes 3 defence company bosses from top political body
• Vaping is big business in Britain
• Lauren Boebert, Far-Right Firebrand, Is Switching House Districts in Colorado
• Snow Sports Are Getting More Dangerous
• Israeli strikes across Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians, even in largely emptied north
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• Hornbills, otters and even a tapir: Singapore is rewilding
• Meet Flip, the Viral Video App Giving Away Free Stuff
• Fan-made Fallout: London is finally coming this April
• Franz Mohr was the man who made great concerts possible
• How the young should invest
• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Supreme Court may toss out Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement
• Thailand's new Thaksinist government
• The 15 Best Movies You Missed in 2023—and Where to Watch Them
• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Talking to Animals using Artificial Intelligence
• After six months of civil war, little remains of Khartoum
• BestEdrOfTheMarket - Little AV/EDR Bypassing Lab For Training And Learning Purposes
• There is more than one way to make green steel
• How the war split the mafia
• Jacques Delors, former European Commission president, dies aged 98
• Mortgage Refinance Rates on Dec. 28, 2023: Rates Dip Since Last Week - CNET
• Can an app decide if a language lives or dies? Not if Welsh speakers have anything to do with it | Gwenno Robinson
• What will artificial intelligence mean for your pay?
• KAL's cartoon
• Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
• Labour wins big in a Scottish by-election
• Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal shortage
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The blight of Britain's prisons
• The best podcasts of 2021
• A Mother, a Daughter, a Deadly Journey: An Update
• Why are there so many suicides in rich, stable Uruguay?
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• David Kirke believed safe sport repressed people's imaginations
• Samsung HW-Q800C Soundbar Review: Standout Midrange Performance
• Iran's $6bn hostage deal is part of a broader diplomatic strategy
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Protect Your Amazon Echo: Don't Place Your Device in These High-Risk Areas - CNET
• Will TikTok's GoTo gambit save its Indonesian business?
• Narendra Modi is remaking India's 1.4m strong military
• CBS and Paramount's parent company reports hack affecting over 80,000 people
• Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
• How Amos Vogel changed American film culture
• An expert on civil war issues a warning about America
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 20 Best After-Christmas Sales and Deals (2023)
• How Britain lives with covid-19 today
• Will a fiscal mess thwart Japan's nascent economic growth?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Pakistan expels undocumented Afghans. But at what price?
• Politics
• Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
• 2023 Was the Year Companies Found Out
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• Christopher Nolan Has High Praise for Zack Snyder
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina's next president
• Cuba's Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
• How covid-19 spurred governments to snoop on sewage
• This week's covers
• Short of cash, Brazil's government may end its gambling prohibition
• America's economy is booming. Why aren't its bosses happier?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• Russia-Ukraine war live: US state department calls on Congress to 'act swiftly' to resume flow of aid to Kyiv
• Will America pull the plug on Israel's invasion of Gaza?
• China is obsessed with food security. Climate change will challenge it
• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
• Governments across the world are discovering "homeland economics"
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• Real wages have risen in America and are rebounding in Europe
• Liars, expulsions and near-fistfights: Congress plumbs the depths in 2023
• India's top court upholds the central government's grab at Kashmir
• Starry new productions show "Macbeth" is the tragedy for our times
• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
• Politics
• Microsoft bet big on AI in 2023, but its AI future is still unclear
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• The New York Times Asks Court to Destroy ChatGPT
• How to sneak billions of dollars out of China
• Britain's probation service is in deep trouble
• Joe Biden and Xi Jinping rediscover the joy of talking. Good
• Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise
• This week in The Economist
• Politics hamper China's efforts to stimulate the economy
• Vivian Silver knew no good could ever come of war
• The Morning After: Microsoft's big bet on AI in 2023
• 'History is not what happened': Howell Raines on the civil war and memory
• Lula's ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality
• The idea of "holobionts" represents a paradigm shift in biology
• Israel reels as Hamas launches a spectacular and bloody offensive
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why China and India are watching the Dalai Lama closely
• Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
• The pet I'll never forget: Mrs Hinch on her alpacas, 'who fill my garden with happiness'
• KAL's cartoon
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• Is the US economy outperforming Europe?
• AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now
• America's economic might gives it little sway in the Middle East
• America's crumbling trade initiative in Asia
• Do Labour's plans for Britain's private schools make sense?
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?
• The 23andMe Data Breach Keeps Spiraling
• Big tech and geopolitics are reshaping the internet's plumbing
• Natural Gas Prices Rise Ahead of Data
• Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
• Mint Mobile says hackers accessed customer information during a security breach
• Parts of America are becoming uninsurable
• Japan needs more sperm donors
• What should Ireland's government do with a huge budget surplus?
• The Caribbean is awash with illegal American guns
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• Have Manchester United turned over a new leaf? – Football Weekly
• Man Gets Eye Exam, Learns He's Had a Splinter Stuck in His Cornea for 15 Years
• Venezuela's autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
• Illinois is the first state in America to abandon cash bail
• The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
• America's House of Representatives finally has a speaker
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
• 'Someone Is Using Photos of Me to Talk to Men'
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Lessons from frugal businesses minting money in India
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• Guava Family Roam Stroller Review (2023): Convenient Jogging Stroller
• China's aggression brings Japan and the Philippines closer
• ABBA return—and pretend no time has passed—with "Voyage"
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Marine Le Pen poses a greater threat than Giorgia Meloni
• Anal Bead Cheating Scandal Returns, This Time with Chinese Chess
• Has Twitter (now X) become more right-wing?
• ProcessStomping - A Variation Of ProcessOverwriting To Execute Shellcode On An Executable'S Section
• Hudson Valley Weekend Trips: Where to Find the Region's Best New Restaurants, Hotels and Kombucha Sorbet
• South Korea's opposition leader narrowly avoids arrest
• The next threat to commodity supplies will be El Niño
• Britain's chancellor offers tax cuts and fiscal trickery
• Elijah Wood and Mike Tyson Cameo Videos Were Used in a Russian Disinformation Campaign
• An ancient whale-like animal may be the biggest to have ever lived
• The flow of migrants into Chicago is a crisis and an opportunity
• Business
• What to do about an uptick in Americans unjustly held abroad
• One Piece's Editor Explains How the Netflix Show Crafted Compelling Backstories
• Big Battles Loom in SEC's War on Crypto
• The outsize influence of small states is fading in the EU
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• The unfair trial of Jimmy Lai begins in Hong Kong
• McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the 'Smoking Gun' That Killed Their Startup
• What America should really learn from Dianne Feinstein
• Land reform in Africa is challenging the power of chiefs
• The world's least liveable cities are starting to improve
• Does the tank have a future?
• Why doctors in America earn so much
• Some progressives are arguing for a religious right to abortion
• The EU's endless search for a migration fix
• American and Chinese scientists are decoupling, too
• How to get African oil out of the ground without Western lenders
• Corals are bleaching and dying earlier in the year than ever before
• The Supreme Court will decide how quickly Donald Trump is prosecuted
• The world this year 2023
• Israel's new plan to encircle Hamas
• Why America struggles to make friends abroad
• American journalism sounds much more Democratic than Republican
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• We Aren't Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?
• The G20 summit will be a resounding success for India
• A corner of Italy that is forever China
• Israel is pushing into southern Gaza as the clock ticks down
• Jensen Huang says Moore's law is dead. Not quite yet
• Could feather bowling be the next pickleball?
• Apple to Halt Watch Sales as It Prepares to Comply With U.S. Import Ban
• Life and death in a Christmas tree
• Antarctic sea ice has shrunk by an area nine times the size of Britain
• A Hamas leader refuses to admit his group planned to kill civilians
• Outrage against femicide is spreading in Italy
• Brexit was wrong, say 57% of British voters
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• One of the Doctor Who Christmas Special's Best Scenes Was a Disney Suggestion
• Politics
• A clue to China's true covid-19 death toll
• The $7,500 tax credit for electric cars will see big changes in 2024. What to know
• Who is sabotaging underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea?
• The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America's Broken Privacy Protections
• It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars
• The Chip Wars Are Metastasizing
• Apple reportedly faces pressure in India after sending out warnings of state-sponsored hacking
• A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
• How to succeed—and fail—as a foreign business in India
• We can't control what disasters a new year may bring. Stoicism can help us get up and try again
• A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
• Narendra Modi's party sweeps in north and central India
• Issey Miyake saw clothes in a completely new way
• America may soon be in recession, according to a famous rule
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A tax-cutting wave is sweeping over America's states
• Brutal urban warfare awaits Israel's army in Gaza
• The Gaza war has deepened Joe Biden's Iran nightmare
• Renovation required
• America, Israel and Saudi are "at the cusp of a deal"
• China's claim to the South China Sea gets even odder
• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Suella Braverman uses a pro-Palestinian march to sow discord
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• Autherine Lucy was an unlikely pioneer
• Australia's energy transition is in trouble
• Why investors cannot escape China exposure
• The world should study China's crushing of Hong Kong's freedoms
• What has happened to US soccer's golden generation?
• How to Use OpenAI's ChatGPT to Create Your Own Custom GPT
• Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• S&P 500 Hovers, Just Shy of Fresh Record
• Israel isn't sure what to do about the hostages in Gaza
• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• Ian Hamilton masterminded one of the most daring heists of the last century
• Why Chinese companies are flocking to Mexico
• Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• As Israel fights on in Gaza its dilemma gets worse
• The Pandemic's E-Commerce Stars Are Coping
• Europe, a laggard in AI, seizes the lead in its regulation
• Can America's weapons-makers adapt to 21st-century warfare?
• Post-Brexit Britain is splurging more on state aid
• The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up
• Nintendo starts shutting down online play for Wii U and 3DS, months ahead of schedule
• Freewrite Alpha Is the Little, Expensive E-Typewriter That Could
• Narendra Modi has shifted India from the Palestinians to Israel
• How big is the role of luck in career success?
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• Donald Trump's second term would be a protectionist nightmare
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• Xi Jinping's revealing response to floods and heatwaves
• This week's cover
• Myanmar's junta suffers startling defeats
• Napoli's mopeds, a shirtless Grealish and more: my random football moments of 2023 | Max Rushden
• In praise of America's car addiction
• An animated documentary tells the story of Amin, an Afghan refugee
• A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
• The rise and rise of e-sports
• Politics hampers Delhi's fight against air pollution
• Siri Will Stop Being an Idiot in 2024. Your Life Will Never Be the Same.
• Why the EU will not remain the world's digital über-regulator
• A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America
• Australians look set to reject new provisions for Aboriginal people
• Xi Jinping worries that China's troops are not ready to fight
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Is lab-grown meat kosher?
• Will North Korea's new spy satellite make the region safer?
• Delivery robots will transform Christmas
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How will Britain turn off its gas grid?
• A Year in Reading: Our Favorite Books of 2023
• This week's cover
• The Middle East's economy is caught in the crossfire
• Guatemala's election produces a pleasant surprise
• How Britain plans to cut immigration
• How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
• Imperial borders still shape politics in Poland
• Sinéad O'Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
• In the Age of AI, 'Her' Is a Fairy Tale
• Taiwan's opposition parties are struggling to unite
• Who Investigates Mississippi Sheriffs? Often No One.
• Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
• France rolls out the red carpet for Britain
• Boston's "cradle of liberty" was paid for with slavery profits
• German budget woes trigger disaster warnings for restaurants
• As the Gaza war rages, Egypt fears for its stability
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• Paula Rego was a painter of rage, longing and loneliness
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• Lebanon's prime minister, Najib Mikati, has a peace plan for Gaza
• Ukraine's army is struggling to find good recruits
• China is struggling to recruit enough highly skilled troops
• Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
• Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
• Evangelicals may soon rival Catholics in Latin America
• Europe's economy is in a bad way. Policymakers need to react
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• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky's highly methodical madness
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• This week's covers
• A wave of international rule-making threatens Caribbean tax havens
• 'Once I began, I couldn't stop': what's it like to become an artist later in life?
• Russia is poised to take advantage of political splits in Ukraine
• Germany's ruling coalition grapples with a wrecked budget
• Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina
• The Woman Who Didn't See Stuttering as a Flaw
• China isn't the only country giving out goodies in Asia
• Rule by law, with Chinese characteristics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Spain's institutions are groaning under partisan pressure
• New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
• Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0
• The internet moments that defined 2023
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
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• How a Rwandan gambit consumed the Conservative Party
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Do Amazon and Google lock out competition?
• Vladimir Putin says the world's energy infrastructure is "at risk"
• What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home
• A "Divine Comedy" ballet, 700 years after Dante's death
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• Emmanuel Macron's vision of a more muscular Europe is coming true
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• Ofir Libstein had extraordinary dreams for his small patch
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro's influence
• Henry Kissinger never quite belonged where he wanted to be
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
• In Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim survives his first electoral test
• Five Best: Books on Shifting Perspectives
• Saotome Katsumoto insisted that Japan should not forget
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• Poland gives pro-European liberals a big win
• What gift would you give Narendra Modi?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The economics of pumpkin patches
• A new gonorrhoea drug was developed by a non-profit foundation
• Travelling to and from America has become a waiting game
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The best apps on Android and iOS to download on your new smartphone
• Joe Biden has shown a steady hand in the Gaza crisis
• German judges toss a spanner into the government's spending plans
• Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan, again
• Sheikh Hasina's party is set to be re-elected in January
• America's Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch
• Liz Truss and Jeremy Corbyn still haunt British politics
• Is Ukraine's counter-offensive over?
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• Productivity has grown faster in western Europe than in America
• The Supreme Court rules against Britain's Rwanda plan. What now?
• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
• What India's foreign-news coverage says about its worldview
• The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023
• The trials of Muhammad Yunus
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• How, if at all, might Russia be punished for its war crimes in Ukraine?
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Russia's brutal mercenaries probably won't matter much in Ukraine
• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
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• Why German bosses are heaping unexpected praise on France
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• The Tantalizing Mystery of the Solar System's Hidden Oceans
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