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• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren't Actually AI Doomers
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• How should Britain reform rape-trial laws?
• China's new Great Wall
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• The Women's World Cup Was Chaotic. England and Spain Cut Through the Noise.
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• How digital gaming spreads far and wide
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• Jiang Zemin oversaw a wave of economic change, but not much political reform
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• Rising Yields Fatten Americans' Pocketbooks
• Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
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• How Mixtapes Remixed Music History—and Its Future
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• Argentina could get its first libertarian president
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• Tell us: has your love of New Zealand birds turned you against cat ownership?
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• The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
• Can computing clean up its act?
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• Google Parent's Cost Cuts Hit Verily as Other Bets Group Feels Pressure to Stem Losses
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• Gabriel Zucman, a controversial John Bates Clark medallist
• How to understand the woeful state of Britain's water utilities
• Video games, power and diplomacy
• Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Are Still Going Strong
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• The Peripheral Canceled After Prime Video Undoes Season 2 Renewal
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• Latin America is in a mess. But it still has strengths
• Fentanyl is spreading the opioid crisis into America's big cities
• Brazil's foreign policy is hyperactive, ambitious and naive
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• The battle for Khartoum is just the beginning of Sudan's nightmare
• Uganda's harsh anti-gay bill is now law
• Fossils Buried in LA Tar Pit Show Why Saber-Toothed Cats Blinked Out of Existence
• Big pharma is warming to the potential of AI
• America is courting India in part for its growing economic clout
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• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
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• China needs foreign workers. So why won't it embrace immigration?
• Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
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• Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
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• A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third
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• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
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• Argentina's slum policy is a rare bright spot in the country
• An ancient whale-like animal may be the biggest to have ever lived
• After a bungled coup attempt, Peru's president falls
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• How LA's drag nuns took centre stage in the culture wars
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• Cuba's Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
• Giuliani Repeatedly Sought Help With Legal Bills From Trump
• Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
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• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
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• The Misguided Debate Over 'Rich Men North of Richmond'
• An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is 'Trivially' Easy to Bypass
• Drought killed 43,000 people in Somalia last year
• The age of the clever fool
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• What 7% Mortgage Rates Mean for Home Buyers
• Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating
• Apple to Start Paying Out $500M in iPhone Slowdown Lawsuit - CNET
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• A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine
• This Bold Plan to Kick the World's Coal Habit Might Actually Work
• How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?
• A Ceaseless War Leaves Lethal Threats Lurking Underfoot
• China simulates precision strikes on Taiwan
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• How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race
• Erotic statues in Peru are challenging taboos
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• 'Nonfiction' Book About Maui Wildfire 'Smells of AI,' Gets Pulled From Amazon
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• This Psychologist Wants To Vaccinate You Against Fake News
• How bad could China's property crisis get?
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• This Week in Books: A Novel That Sees Through Self-Delusion
• Judge and staff shortages are leaving Americans in limbo
• The Americas face a historic opportunity. Will the region grasp it?
• Montana Youth Win a Historic Climate Case
• Latin America could become this century's commodity superpower
• Farewell, Mark Rutte, the Tiggerish Dutch prime minister
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• The strange success of the Tories' schools policy
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter
• Britain's services exports are booming despite Brexit. Why?
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• Insects could help turn beer waste into beef
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• Supply chains are back to normal. Why is inflation still so high?
• By Seizing @Music, Elon Musk Shows He Doesn't Know What Made Twitter Good
• Are heatwaves evidence that climate change is speeding up?
• What is The Economist's word of the year for 2021?
• The Van Gogh Museum showcases a rejected early masterpiece
• Sierra Leone's president is re-elected in the first round
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• Why are more British adults still living with their parents?
• How to fix India's decrepit cities
• Recent left-wing triumphs in Latin America may prove short-lived
• Cambodia is about to host arguably the world's biggest sporting event
• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• Why is China blocking graphite exports to Sweden?
• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
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• Hong Kong starts its largest national-security trial
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
• At least seven killed in Russian strike on theatre in centre of Chernihiv
• Acura's ZDX EV has an estimated 325 miles of range and starts at around $60,000
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• The Best Mattresses You Can Buy Online (2023)
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• Meta's Next Big Open Source AI Dump Will Reportedly Be a Code-Generating Bot
• By Seizing @Music, Elon Musk Shows He Doesn't Know What Made Twitter Good
• Indonesia wants to export moderate Islam
• Saotome Katsumoto insisted that Japan should not forget
• Why are politics in West Bengal so violent?
• American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate
• China's huge Asian investments fail to buy it soft power
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• Antarctic rocks can help sort stone tools from natural lookalikes
• Russia and Iran are upgrading their transport links
• SoftBank Buys Vision Fund's Stake in Arm at $64 Billion Valuation
• What would humans do in a world of super-AI?
• East Asia's new family portrait
• India's once-troubled banks are generating huge profits
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• The spies for hire who pick the bones of corporate scandals
• The market for dinosaur fossils is booming
• Hilary Mantel saw things that others couldn't
• Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway
• On my radar: Ruben Östlund's cultural highlights
• An Auto-Parts Retailer Crashed---It Can Be Fixed
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president, wants to smother the gig economy
• Against expectations, oil and gas remain cheap
• Why Walmart is trouncing Amazon in the grocery wars
• Why Republicans Would Welcome a Biden Challenger
• Iran's proxies in the Middle East remain a powerful force
• Pope Benedict XVI was an iron fist in a white glove
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• India's deadly heatwaves are getting even hotter
• Demand for chocolate causes more illegal deforestation than people realise
• How to two-time your employer: a tech worker's guide
• The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
• The BRICS are getting together in South Africa
• Elon Musk's Latest Antics Have Some Asking: Is He Out of Touch?
• How to make Britain's AI dreams reality
• Lamborghini's new all-electric concept car was inspired by spaceships
• A new world order seeks to prioritise security and climate change
• Xcrawl3R - A CLI Utility To Recursively Crawl Webpages
• Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data
• Ben Wallace says he is out of the race for NATO's top job
• America's closest Indo-Pacific allies are cosying up
• Can Ukraine capitalise on chaos in Russia?
• Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
• Nigeria's new president scraps the fuel subsidy
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• Why Europe's asylum policy desperately needs rebooting
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• ESG Investors Have Ethical Motives. They Also Expect to Outperform the Market.
• A battle of rickshaw apps shows the promise of India's digital stack
• Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world
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• Only politics, not the law, can stop Donald Trump
• Inside Trump's Decision to Skip the G.O.P. Debate
• An unlikely tech cluster exemplifies China's economic vision
• Life in Kherson after the Kakhovka dam's collapse
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is making mixed progress
• In North Carolina a jilted husband can sue his wife's lover
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• Autherine Lucy was an unlikely pioneer
• Ecuador prepares for 'once-in-a-lifetime' vote to stop oil drilling
• Airborne taxi ranks are coming to a sky near you
• 'One climate disaster after another': North America's long hot summer
• Indiana Jones and the fedora boom
• Samsung's Freestyle Gen 2 Lets You Play Cloud Games on Your Ceiling
• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
• In America, school test results are still lagging behind pre-covid levels
• The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation
• Influencers Balk at Amazon's Absurd Offer to Pay $25 Per Sponsored Video
• Experience: I have Alice in Wonderland syndrome
• Keir Starmer: 'I hate losing. Some say it's the taking part that counts. I am not in that camp'
• Match Group and Background-Checking Nonprofit End Safety Partnership
• A palatial museum of Edvard Munch's art opens in Oslo
• America's Mixed-Signals Economy
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• Montana, climate-change pioneer
• How to Shop and Compare Electricity Rates in Connecticut - CNET
• Australia has faced down China's trade bans and emerged stronger
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• Climate change is harder on less educated people
• Trump Discovers That Some Things Are Actually Illegal
• Can Uber and Lyft ever make real money?
• Mapsdumper - Dump Place Details From Google Maps Like Phone, Email, Website, And Reviews
• Chinese propaganda is surprisingly effective abroad
• YouTube Music Adds a TikTok-Like Videofeed to Attract Gen Z
• Can Colombia's mercurial president bring "total peace"?
• Smell Your Way Out of the Uncanny Valley
• 'Venba' Takes Me Back to My Roots Through Food and Family
• Britain's government wastes time—not money
• Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?
• Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• Executive coaching is useful therapy that you can expense
• Upper legislative houses tend to be biased and malapportioned
• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
• Refugee-friendly Canada tightens its border with the United States
• Britons turn into Borat when it comes to health, housing and avocados
• Hip Hop 2073: A Vision of the Future, 50 Years From Now
• Hurricane Hilary Drops to Category 3 Nearing Landfall
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• Hawaii: tell us about your connection with Lahaina
• Dervla Murphy let nothing stand in the way of adventure
• After Niger's coup, the drums of war are growing louder
• American exceptionalism exists, but other countries also have problems
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• Women take over France's powerful trade unions
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• Can Yemen hold together?
• The end of work: which jobs will survive the AI revolution?
• Researchers find a way to make VR headsets more realistic
• The South is fast becoming America's industrial heartland
• A new Covid variant is on the rise – how worried should we be? | Devi Sridhar
• British inflation may not be as sticky as thought
• French bulldogs are taking over America
• How ChatGPT could help teachers and lower the cost of college
• Dubai and Riyadh are both riding property booms
• China has not done enough to halt the wildlife trade
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
• The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow
• GitHub's Hardcore Plan to Roll Out Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
• The winners and losers from the $69bn Microsoft-Activision mega-deal
• Everything You Need to Know Before Watching Ahsoka
• This history of holidays gone by will leave you grateful to be living in the jet age | Rachel Cooke
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• Meme stocks are back from the dead
• Turkish property prices are soaring
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• Vladimir Putin's useful idiots
• You Do Not Need Samsung's Slim S Pen Case to Enjoy the Galaxy Z Fold 5
• Rare 'Pinwheel' Stars Are a Beautiful Astronomical Puzzle
• A prisoner swap is a symbolic step towards ending the Saudi-led war in Yemen
• Why legal writing is so awful
• If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
• Office Small Talk Is Excruciating. It Doesn't Have to Be
• Ukraine needs the West's help. But our polling shows a worrying trend
• Dealmaking has slowed—except among dealmakers
• Senegal's President Macky Sall says he won't stand for a third term
• What to make of the Supreme Court's tumultuous term
• China's young want to work. For the government
• Kyriakos Mitsotakis returns to the Greek prime minister's office
• Global shares endure worst week since March on interest rate worries
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• Chinese nationalists are up in arms over the treatment of pandas
• PHOTOS: Global heat hacks, from jazzy umbrellas in DRC to ice beans in Singapore
• Ethnic terminology bedevils Taiwan-China relations
• Dick Ravitch, New York's fiscal superman
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Tories v the institutions
• In conversation with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
• Labour makes striking gains in the heartland of Brexit
• Boris Johnson strikes again
• 7 Best Electric Cargo Bikes for Families (2023)
• Nikki Haley, like other long shots, sees a path to victory
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Can Australia break China's monopoly on critical minerals?
• America's jobs report is not as strong as it seems
• Are America's regional banks over the worst of it?
• British voters want more immigrants but less immigration
• Spain v England: World Cup final preview – Women's Football Weekly
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
• Argentina could help the world by becoming a big lithium exporter
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• In much of Asia, race is just too hard to talk about
• Herders and farmers seek reasons for east Africa's drought
• Copper is unexpectedly getting cheaper
• Wagner rebels turn against Putin's army
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• My Father's House
• Hip-hop's 50th anniversary shines a light on its New York City birth
• Argentina clinch the World Cup after beating France on penalties
• Lula's foreign-policy ambitions will be tempered by circumstances
• Sir Tony Blair mesmerises the Labour Party, again
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses
• The world has to adapt to the climate change it will not avoid
• What America's bike-share schemes tell you about venture capital
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• Anne Saxelby was a champion of artisan farmers and their wares
• England may soon become the world's best cricket team
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• The Palestinian Authority is being eclipsed by radical militants
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• Hong Kong puts a price on the heads of democracy activists
• AI is making Washington smarter
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• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
• Russians have helped make Dubai's property market red hot—again
• The Taliban embrace cultural heritage
• The Mystery of Chernobyl's Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes
• The American credit cycle is at a dangerous point
• AI is setting off a great scramble for data
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• The end of Western naivety about China
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• Why so much of the world won't stand up to Russia
• China has chilling plans for governing Taiwan
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• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
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• This Psychologist Wants To Vaccinate You Against Fake News
• A digital payments revolution in India
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
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• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• Latin America's left-wing presidents risk stoking inflation
• For Spain and England, a Swift Rise Is Also a Warning
• Could Ukraine's allies be sending it more weapons?
• AI is not yet killing jobs
• Regime change
• Is America's inflationary fever breaking?
• Electric cars could be crucial for the EU to meet its climate goals
• The Taliban have launched an impressive new war on drugs
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• Science News Briefs from around the World: September 2023
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• The future lies with electric vehicles
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• What if China and India became friends?
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• Microsoft's Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI
• How the mutiny in Russia will shape the battlefield in Ukraine
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• Go First's insolvency tests India's bankruptcy regime
• How long will the travel boom last?
• Ethiopia risks sliding into another civil war
• From wild swimming to grouse shooting, Britain is in hock to hobbyists
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• U.S. Space Companies Becoming Prime Targets for Foreign Malware, Federal Agencies Warn
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• Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
• This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
• Brazil's new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
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• The Baltic states fear that NATO is being complacent
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• Micronesia takes on China
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• Mexico's president wants to develop the poorer south
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• Co-ordinated rocket salvoes suggest Israel's old enemies are reuniting
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