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• When will remote workers see their pay cut?
• Hizbullah seems to have miscalculated in its fight with Israel
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• Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
• USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
• The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
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• Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
• Mexico and Canada brace for Donald Trump's tariff thrashing
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• 'I forgive them for what they've done': Esther Ghey on life after the murder of daughter Brianna – podcast
• Luis Abinader is poised for a thumping re-election win
• Xi Jinping bumps up the share prices of firms he visits
• Who Are the Israeli Hostages Released by Hamas?
• Why a new art gallery in Bangalore is important for Indian science
• The best television shows of 2021
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says market got it wrong about DeepSeek's impact
• DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
• Moldova's pro-EU president has won re-election
• Apple takes on recipe apps with Apple News+ Food
• Why China is losing interest in English
• The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping
• Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit
• Sudan's football team wants to reach the World Cup
• Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
• Meta Will Build the World's Longest Undersea Cable
• Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?
• Astrologers are predicting the result of America's election
• The secretive X-37B space plane snapped this picture of Earth from orbit
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• Brazilian football looks like the next Premier League
• What to Stream on TV This Week: 'Running Point,' 'Venom: The Last Dance' and More
• Latin America's left-wing presidents risk stoking inflation
• Some corals are better at handling the heat
• The end of cricket's Indian monopoly
• Vladimir Putin has rallied the West
• Shane Warne believed that cricket should always be fun
• The world's most, and least, walkable cities
• Sudan: the war the world forgot
• South Africa's future is in the hands of a divided ANC
• The battles of Greg Jackson, Britain's clean-energy disrupter
• Terry Anderson was held by Islamic militants for 2,454 days
• Business
• Blighty newsletter: The wonk verdict on British growth
• Elias Khoury encapsulated the confusions of the Middle East
• Why do Australians live so long?
• BYD's Free Self-Driving Tech Might Not Be Such a Boon After All
• Bangladesh's economic progress may have been hyped
• Israel's government is again trying to hobble its Supreme Court
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• KAL's cartoon
• Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged
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• China's Communist Party is tightening its grip in businesses
• Finding aliens means studying new sorts of planet
• Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street?
• MAGA Has Found a New Model
• Francisco Lopera's travels in the Andes began to solve a great mystery
• Xi Jinping builds a 21st-century police state
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Trump FEMA Firings Hit Agency Already Suffering Staffing Shortages
• Can Colombia's mercurial president bring "total peace"?
• Britain's Conservative Party faces up to its own mortality
• Vizio Elevate SE 5.1.2 Soundbar Review: Cheap Thrills
• Homelessness rises to a record level in America
• India bridles at China's growing presence in South Asia
• Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
• The world this year 2024
• The military draft is making a comeback
• Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown
• Chuck Yeager died on December 7th
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
• Why China banned international adoptions
• Ofir Libstein had extraordinary dreams for his small patch
• H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic
• Magic: The Gathering Is Adding Avatar to Its Crossover Collection
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks
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• America's strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
• Best Action Cameras (2025), Tested and Reviewed
• Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation
• MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid's Show in Major Shake-Up
• Four charts that highlight this summer's freakish temperatures
• Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release; moves tanks into West Bank
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
• The weekly cartoon
• The United States says corruption in Paraguay starts at the top
• $1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever
• A new diplomatic struggle is unfolding over Taiwan
• How Iran covered up the damage from Israel's strikes
• Surrogacy reform is spreading in the rich world
• Blighty newsletter: Three (early) observations about Britain's new government
• The World Is in a Polyester Crisis. One Company Is Trying to Recycle a Way Out
• Soaring food-price inflation is hurting Nigeria's poor
• Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
• Europe is bidding a steady farewell to passport-free travel
• After a dramatic week in Gaza, where does the war stand?
• The secret to taking better penalties
• Cocaine-Funded Gangs Shake Colombia Years After Peace Pact
• Pasha Lee went from Ukrainian screen idol to volunteer
• China doesn't want people flaunting their wealth
• Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways
• The Heart Emoji Is Meaningless
• The West faces new inflation fears
• Floods in Spain cause death and devastation
• The weekly cartoon
• Why does the West back the wrong Asian leaders?
• Premier League Soccer: Livestream Newcastle vs. Nottingham Forest From Anywhere
• Ratan Tata, a consequential and beloved figure in Indian business
• What does Modi 3.0 look like?
• Russ Vought: Donald Trump's holy warrior
• The world court says Israel's occupation is illegal
• Mexico's gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
• What a censored speech says about China's economy
• Labour lacks good ideas for improving Britain's schools
• China's stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
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• Sources and acknowledgments
• AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
• What a Japanese gold mine says about its approach to history
• Britain's government lacks a clear Europe policy
• The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible
• New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
• The world's rules-based order is cracking
• 'Terrified' Federal Workers Are Clamming Up
• Ukraine has a month to avoid default
• KAL's cartoon
• What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump's victory
• Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world's
• How China is trying to win back foreign tourists
• Has China reached peak emissions?
• Enthusiasm for regulation, often in areas like the climate, shows no sign of flagging
• Polarisation by education is remaking American politics
• Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
• KAL's cartoon
• India's largest airline is flying high
• If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win?
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• Half Ukraine's power is knocked out; winter is coming
• A landslip in Hong Kong fuels resentment of the rich
• Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space
• For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand
• Business
• Javier Milei finally lugs key reforms through Argentina's Senate
• Paris's stunning vision for the Olympics wins a gold medal
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• America's jobs report is not as strong as it seems
• China is using an "anaconda strategy" to squeeze Taiwan
• A new leader offers little hope for Palestinians
• Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Feb. 23
• Our guide to how Trump or Harris might win the election
• Prime Video: 12 Sci-Fi Movies You Should Add to Your Watch List Right Now
• Africa's EV revolution has two wheels not four
• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• Britain's government pulls the plug on a superfast computer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What is Virtual Reality (VR)? The Complete WIRED Guide
• The captain and his country
• Why do conservatives in America love Zyn?
• India's attempt to save the tiger has been a remarkable success
• Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump's return
• Climate change is making the monsoon more dangerous
• What a buzzy startup reveals about Britain's biotech sector
• American productivity still leads the world
• Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
• Falafel died on February 14th
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• China and the EU risk a trade war
• Premier League Soccer: Livestream Man City vs. Liverpool From Anywhere
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
• Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
• Just inside Lebanon, Israeli soldiers debate how far to go
• Labour's landslide victory will turn politics on its head
• The world's next food superpower
• Hard-right populists are pushing their way into the mainstream
• KAL's cartoon
• Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
• BioNTech's boss, Ugur Sahin, remains sanguine about Omicron
• Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
• How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
• 'Technofossils': how humanity's eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
• The risk of election violence in America is real
• Britain's family courts are opening up to reporters
• Politics
• The threat of an Israeli attack is reviving Iranian nationalism
• Remembering the Normandy landings
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• Israel's limited missile strike on Iran may be the start of a wider assault
• Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material
• Why China is unlikely to restrain Iran
• Donald Trump and Japan's Ishiba Shigeru make for an odd couple
• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• Why the 2024 Chicago convention is not the 1968 convention
• Trump should try to end, not manage, the Middle East's oldest conflicts
• Covid-19 has pushed governments to find new ways to help the poor
• AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century
• Apple's M4 MacBook Air could be here in just a few weeks
• If you've got it, don't flaunt it in Sweden
• Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• The Chinese are working more hours than ever
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• Avian flu in America is a political problem and a health threat
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Michelle Obama spotlights reproductive rights and women's role in America
• KAL's cartoon
• The Philippines bans some genetically modified foods
• The Arctic: climate change's great economic opportunity
• Could the war in Ukraine go nuclear?
• When to sell your stocks
• Gang violence is spreading across Latin America
• How plundered Gaulish silver ended up in Roman coins
• 'Trump and Musk are gaslighting': anti-apartheid artist on how US president and his billionaire ally are attacking South Africa
• The warm glow
• The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
• Can Britain's "mission-led" government defy gravity?
• Ukraine's warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south
• The Best Meta Quest Games You Can Play Right Now (2025)
• This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout
• DOGE Put Him in the Treasury Department. His Company Has Federal Contracts Worth Millions
• How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years
• The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
• Blighty newsletter: The great status shuffle
• Eleanor Coppola recorded how a cinematic triumph almost came unstuck
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Elon Musk's praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany
• Why investors' "Trump trade" might be flawed
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• LVMH is splurging on the Olympics
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, died on April 9th
• Financial markets are betting on a Trump victory
• Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Politics
• Lula's ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality
• Business
• Australia joins the industrial arms race
• Bans on dog meat sweep across Asia
• Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation
• Josep Almudéver died on May 23rd
• Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs?
• India is turning into an SUV country
• Australia wants to lead the big tech crackdown
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Germany's economy goes from bad to worse
• Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump's cross-hairs
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Africa's coups are part of a far bigger crisis
• Who's the big boss of the global south?
• Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders
• How crises reshaped the world financial system
• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
• The covid-19 pandemic is hanging over Britain's election
• Taiwan's dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
• An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster
• Which way will swing voters lean in America's election?
• How the Gulf's rulers want to harness the power of science
• The flight from southern Lebanon has been swift
• This week's covers
• A comical effort by China's intelligence agency
• A plan to reorganise local government in England runs into opposition
• Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks
• Israel mounts an attack on Palestinian intellectual life
• Feeling Overwhelmed by the News? Here's How to Protect Your Mental Health
• Chile's crisis is not over yet
• OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• Germany's Economic Model Is Broken, and No One Has a Plan B
• Can Europe afford to be the world's last free-trader?
• Desmond Tutu believed that truth was the best weapon
• Claudia Sheinbaum's landslide victory is a danger for Mexico
• The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman
• A new generation of music-making algorithms is here
• The Polish restaurants that dare to be dairy
• A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
• Why on earth would anyone go to a British party conference?
• Two charts assess Donald Trump's distinctive debate style
• Comrade Duch died on September 2nd
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• China will become less populous, more productive—and more pricey
• European Parliament elections tracker: results and guide to the vote
• Russian exiles are making a mark in the Caucasus and Central Asia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• iPhone 16E: All the Features You Don't Get for $599
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The travails and bold aims of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
• The Death of Competition in American Elections
• Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th
• The start of a fragile truce in Gaza offers relief and joy
• The next American president will be a China hawk
• Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia
• Tubi Is Not the Next Netflix. It's Something Better
• Meta is accused of "bullying" the open-source community
• The fight to win the most unruly institution in Washington
• The bunkers on Beirut's golf course are in the crosshairs
• The beating of Argentina's former first lady fits a shameful pattern
• How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy
• The Rachel Reeves theory of growth
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Alawites formed Syria's elite. Now they are terrified
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Rose Dugdale went from debutante to IRA bombmaker
• Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loans
• The obesity capitals of the world
• Where is Kamala Harris's convention bounce?
• How physics can improve image-generating AI
• Narendra Modi needs to win over low-income Indians
• When brawn and technology ruin the spectacle of sports
• Toriyama Akira was probably Japan's greatest manga master
• Police officer and suspect who took hostages at Pennsylvania hospital killed in shootout
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The war for AI talent is heating up
• KAL's cartoon
• This week's cover
• The Korean peninsula is as divided as ever
• Kenneth Kaunda died on June 17th
• America is unusually bad at clearing up homicides
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• Russia's latest crime in Mariupol: stealing property
• After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
• Machine translation is almost a solved problem
• What if China and India became friends?
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• CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - A Web App For Encryption, Encoding, Compression And Data Analysis
• Obituary: Jacques Chirac died on September 26th
• Bolivia is on the brink of an economic crisis
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• Can Big Oil run in reverse?
• Off the Charts newsletter: Why R is the best coding language for data journalism
• As wildfires continue to ravage America, floods are wreaking havoc elsewhere
• Yuan Longping died on May 22nd
• Macau, China's sin city, wants to be more like Las Vegas
• Will Mark Zuckerberg's Trump gamble pay off?
• Why are there so many suicides in rich, stable Uruguay?
• The four worst words in British politics
• Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here
• NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
• Rushdi Sarraj loved to record what others did not or would not see
• Israel's settlers are winning unprecedented power from the war in Gaza
• Mike Johnson has his old job back, for now
• Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China
• In search of resilience
• The builder of the Titanic is struggling to stay afloat
• This Christian Convert Fled Iran, and Ran Into Trump's Deportation Policy.
• Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
• A Nobel prize for electron-watchers
• How People Actually Make a Living on TikTok
• Countering China in Africa
• DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government
• A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa
• How to beat jet lag
• Is Cambodia slipping out of China's orbit?
• Why so much of the world won't stand up to Russia
• A battle rages for a key city in Sudan's ravaged western region
• Britain is a world leader in pet health care
• China's property crisis claims more victims: companies
• Why Oriental hornets can't get drunk
• Guatemala is grappling with a globetrotting Jewish "cult"
• Heard on the Street's Stock-Picking Series
• Hong Kong gets a second draconian security law
• Why Africa is crypto's next frontier
• Donald Trump's economic warfare has a new front
• Hispanic men helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House
• Should central bankers argue in public?
• When is the correct time to diagnose dementia?
• Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China seeks a world order that defers to states and their rulers
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Protests threaten Georgia's Kremlin-friendly government
• British farms are luring the Instagram crowd
• Labour is on course for a huge victory in the British election
• The weekly cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Married women in Japan are re-entering the labour market
• Exploiting disarray in Syria, Israel grabs more of the Golan Heights
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• This week's cover
• The culture war over the Gaza war
• South Africa's coalition government has improved the vibes
• What would Robert F. Kennedy junior mean for American health?
• How sports gambling became ubiquitous
• How China thrives in a world of turmoil
• China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
• Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What's changed?
• The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliver
• It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars
• Covid-19 spurs national plans to give citizens digital identities
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• Business
• Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
• Do amateurs regret jumping into China's frenzied stockmarkets?
• The attempt on Trump's life is shocking, but not surprising
• The EU is worried about sensitive exports to competitors and foes
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• How the right is taking culture war to culture itself
• The weekly cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Jeju Air Crash Probe Focuses On Engine Damage After Bird Strike
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• The world this year 2023
• Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease
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• As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an "attention recession"
• The murder that aroused a nation
• Lessons from the pandemic
• European airlines are on a shopping spree
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders
• The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway
• Latin America's prisons are overcrowded and violent
• Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• Taylor Swift, imperfect capitalist?
• How bad could things get in France?
• Working from home and the US-Europe divide
• An FBI sting operation catches Jackson's mayor taking big bribes
• What Is Net Neutrality? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Earth may once have had a planetary ring
• Peruvians are debating how to protect isolated tribes
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• Larry Kramer died on May 27th
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• Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald's and KFC
• India's difficult business environment is improving
• Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training
• To revive the economy, China wants consumers to buy better stuff
• The British election is not close. But the race in Bicester is
• China is overhauling its company law
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• As usual, the medal tally at the Olympic games was lopsided
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• UK general election: live results and analysis
• Donald Trump's America will not become a tech oligarchy
• Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach were sides of the same coin
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• Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024
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• Open-Access Networks Explained: A New Way to Get Internet
• The mystery of India's female labour-force participation rate
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• Priyanka Gandhi: dynastic scion, and hope of India's opposition
• Why have Britain's new towns become fashionable again?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
• Russia's vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president, wants to smother the gig economy
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• Football clubs' revenues rebound from covid—especially in England
• When central banks become one-stop policy shops
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• Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
• Bibi Netanyahu offered spectacle over substance in America
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• How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
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• How Robert F. Kennedy junior's effect on the election has shifted
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• Celeste Caeiro's small gesture named a revolution
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• Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine's front line is crumbling
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• Blighty newsletter: Labour is demolishing the Tories' pet projects
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• From Wall Street banker to Vladimir Putin's point man
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• The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
• European governments struggle to stop rich people from fleeing
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• The clock is ticking on an old deal between America and China
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• Why Kamala Harris's chances of victory just jumped
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• Adani's problems in Kenya undermine Narendra Modi's ambitions for Africa
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• Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme
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