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• Has Australasia lurched right on race?
• One Canadian province has decriminalised drugs
• Why Even a Partial Digital Detox Is a Good Idea This Christmas
• The British Conservatives' crisis over Rwanda is a rerun of Brexit
• Hamas's carnage upends Joe Biden's plans for the Middle East
• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• The AI Detection Arms Race Is On
• Why is the British Museum always in trouble?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Apple halts US sales of Watch before holidays after losing patent case
• E-Signature Company DocuSign Explores a Deal
• Ehud Barak blames Binyamin Netanyahu for "the greatest failure in Israel's history"
• China's message to the global south
• Alexei Navalny, Russia's opposition leader, is missing in the gulag
• Britain's native farm animals can be rarer than giant pandas
• Revisiting Rick Flagg in The Suicide Squad
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• Chinese apps are a mixed blessing for American big tech
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• The fall of China's "manganese king" may hit global EV supply chains
• On the 50th anniversary of "Ways of Seeing" and "G."
• Renewable energy has hidden costs
• How to avoid a common investment mistake
• Which languages take the longest to learn?
• The world's first pathway for individually designed drugs
• How confusing fetal-personhood laws in America affect hospitals
• Why fewer university students are studying Mandarin
• How to get the lying out of hiring
• Pharma's big push for a new generation of obesity drugs
• Delivery robots will transform Christmas
• Engadget Podcast: RIP E3 and diving into The Game Awards
• A Rare Visual Disorder Twists Faces Out of Shape
• In praise of America's car addiction
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• It's not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
• Israel's window of legitimacy in Gaza is shrinking
• Three climate fights will dominate COP28
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• The legacy of Liz Truss
• China's slowing economy, seen from ground level
• Women's football is becoming bigger and better
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Panasonic's New Powder-Powered Batteries Will Supercharge EVs
• What gift would you give Narendra Modi?
• 30 Best Online Co-Op Games (2023): Playstation, Xbox, PC, Switch
• Narendra Modi wants a lot more women in Indian politics
• French fighter jets join the Baltic mission
• X Works to Lure Smaller Advertisers as Elon Musk Alienates Big Brands
• The Forgotten Tradition of Clemency
• The old have come to dominate American politics
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• Will coupmongers stop Guatemala's president from taking office? | Will Freeman
• New technology could cement Indonesia's dominance of vital nickel
• Is the Windsor framework in Northern Ireland working?
• Saotome Katsumoto insisted that Japan should not forget
• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• New York City discovers a revolutionary technology: the bin
• The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space
• Asia's most expensive cities, ranked
• Protesters vs critical minerals: Panama copper fiasco shows risks to green transition
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• China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Survivors of deadly Maui blaze face displacement after displacement: 'I live a nomadic life'
• A clue to China's true covid-19 death toll
• Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat
• Liverpool and Manchester City drop points in the title race – Football Weekly
• Sinéad O'Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
• 'Don't cry, I'm here now': free after eight years in an Israeli prison – video
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
• India is in the midst of an unusual IPO boom
• A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America
• The Supreme Court has found a gun-control measure it likes
• 'The bailiffs will come at noon': desperation and devastation in England's housing courts
• These tomatoes were lost on the International Space Station for almost a year
• Germany's Christian Democrats are unsure whom to hug
• A devastating accusation by Justin Trudeau against India
• The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Tell us about the moment you found out the truth about Santa
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• Who will fill the expelled George Santos's seat?
• Antarctic sea ice is at a record low
• The British government is not paying dementia enough attention
• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
• The culture war over the Gaza war
• Small business, bright future: how the SME landscape may evolve over the next five years
• In Belgrade, backers of Ukraine and Russia fight with graffiti
• Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
• An English footballer is recovering after suffering a cardiac arrest during a match
• The best films of 2021
• Britain's Tory rulers set the weather for Labour's fiscal policy
• The rapid loss of Antarctic sea ice brings grim scenarios into view
• Outstanding agency photographers of 2023
• You Can Easily Track Flights in iMessage on Your iPhone This Holiday Season. Here's How - CNET
• A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third
• Issey Miyake saw clothes in a completely new way
• Mexico's foreign policy is unambitious and erratic
• Irresistible Bayern signal status quo amid silent protests in Bundesliga | Andy Brassell
• How American journalism lets down readers and voters
• What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• Europe's technology startups are doing just fine
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• Spain's institutions are groaning under partisan pressure
• EU takes action against X over illegal content and disinformation
• America's big car firms face lengthy strikes
• Does the tank have a future?
• The 2023 Nobel prizes honour work that touched millions of lives
• Today's Best CD Rates: Dec. 18, 2023 -- APYs Top 5.5% Following Fed's Recent Rate Pause - CNET
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why New York wants to be more like London
• Donald Tusk must undo years of populist subversion in Poland
• This week's covers
• America's economic might gives it little sway in the Middle East
• How a 31-year-old hopes to fix Ukraine's state-owned defence giant
• Mortgage Refinance Rates on Dec. 18, 2023: Rates Drop - CNET
• Some progressives are arguing for a religious right to abortion
• The pandemic's indirect effects on small children could last a lifetime
• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• Netflix takes a swing at live sport
• Apple experiments to let developers offer discount bundles on subscriptions
• Piers Morgan will find many ways to deny phone hacking – but how long before his number is up? | Archie Bland
• VC Office Hours: Unlocking LPs in a bear market
• China tries to figure out whom a hit song is mocking
• Iceland volcano: Blue Lagoon spa reopens despite eruption fears
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• Latin America's local governments too often fail their people
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
• Video: insights from the author
• 'He had such a wealth of soul': Matthew Perry remembered by Minnie Driver
• Xi Jinping wants to be loved by the global south
• The Soaring Highs and Stark Lows of Spaceflight in 2023
• The Myth of the Unemployed College Grad
• Netflix's Big Data Dump Shows Just OK TV Is Here to Stay
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hsiao Bi-khim is Taiwan's cat warrior
• California cracks down on carbon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Narendra Modi complete India's state-building project?
• Why stockpickers should get out more
• The insidious campaign to demolish mosques in India
• Black Georgian men helped Biden the White House – are they losing faith?
• Kevin McCarthy's sacking deepens the chaos in American government
• Mexico's gangs could be the country's fifth-biggest employer
• Netanyahu wages war and fights for his own survival
• Tell us your favourite games of 2023
• Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become
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• Henry Kissinger, a statesman beyond reproach, in China at least
• "Aftermath" is a piercing study of Germany after 1945
• Clean Your Floors in Style With a Refurb Roomba J7 Plus for Just $270 - CNET
• America may soon be in recession, according to a famous rule
• Everything about carmaking is changing at once
• Apple is testing App Store discount packages so developers can pull users into more subscriptions
• If Venezuela's elections were fair, this would be the front-runner
• Why migration is in such a mess once more
• Should you send your children to private school?
• Best VPN for Travel - CNET
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
• Argentina could get its first libertarian president
• Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
• The 'Grand Theft Auto VI' Trailer Is Here. And It's Already Causing Mayhem
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• An Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan is on the point of starvation
• The 50 best albums of 2023, No 5 – Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
• An election that could make the global internet safer for autocrats
• 'It's Always Important to Remember Death': Joel Kinnaman on For All Mankind
• India's surging food prices are a problem not just for India
• Everything Everywhere All at Once Tops Kanopy's List of Most-Watched Films of 2023
• A winter wonderland and dervishes dancing : photos of the day – Monday
• Brazil's new president may soon face another threat: his predecessor
• Elon Musk's X Under Investigation for Spreading 'Illegal Content' on Israel and Hamas in EU
• Spending on infrastructure has fallen in real terms in America
• Press freedom is under attack
• Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales paused in the US due to a patent dispute
• COP28 Climate Summit Deal Called 'Historic.' Now Countries Must Follow Through
• Weekend podcast: actor Toby Jones, John Crace on Sunak at the Covid inquiry, and how Taylor Swift gets in shape for her shows
• Senegal's president asks if democracy can work in Africa's coup-belt
• Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise
• The United Methodist Church Comes Apart
• Many of the world's new mpox cases are in China
• The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI
• IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B
• A war correspondent's intimate portrait of an embattled minority
• George Orwell's horticultural sensibilities
• How rationing became the fashion under the Tories
• Best Ebook Subscription and Audiobook Services (2023)
• My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk's 'Politically Biased' Chatbot
• Why so much of the world won't stand up to Russia
• China's enormous surveillance state is still growing
• Keeping tabs on China's murky maritime manoeuvres
• Venezuela's autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
• Telegram-Nearby-Map - Discover The Location Of Nearby Telegram Users
• Giving gifts boosts happiness, research shows. So why do we feel frazzled?
• China approves the world's first flying taxi
• How to speak like a member of Congress
• How one pandemic made another one worse
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• David Kirke believed safe sport repressed people's imaginations
• Conservatives dominate Chile's constitutional assembly this time around
• The Indian business of blowing things up is booming
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Portugal's prime minister resigns over a corruption scandal
• Australia's energy transition is in trouble
• Britain's Labour Party embraces supply-side social democracy
• What a third world war would mean for investors
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• Israel's new plan to encircle Hamas
• Business
• Europe's conservative populists pit migrants against babies
• China is stoking anger over Japan's release of nuclear wastewater
• Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
• After 12 years of blood, Assad's Syria rejoins the Arab League
• How successful is egg-freezing at preserving fertility?
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• Buy Now, Pay Later Keeps People Spending---Without Credit Agencies Knowing
• News Publishers See Google's AI Search Tool as a Traffic-Destroying Nightmare
• New Evidence Discovered That Saturn's Moon Could Support Life
• How to think about the Google anti-monopoly trial
• Elizabeth Warren is demanding more transparency from Meta on how it's handling content about Palestine on Instagram
• Sandra Day O'Connor specialised in breaking into male bastions
• Chicago's progressive coalition is struggling with migration
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How science will be transformed by AI
• The Secret to Trump's Success Isn't Authoritarianism
• Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard
• Fall in German business sentiment points to a contracting economy
• Frontline Formosa
• Give Russia's Frozen Assets to Ukraine Now
• Elijah Wood and Mike Tyson Cameo Videos Were Used in a Russian Disinformation Campaign
• After its brutal attack, Hamas is calculating its next move
• Lessons from frugal businesses minting money in India
• Taiwan's opposition parties unite
• Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas's tunnels
• Hornbills, otters and even a tapir: Singapore is rewilding
• Joe Biden needs Mexico's co-operation on migration
• OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence
• The Toxic Truth About Your Christmas Tree
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• As the SEC's new data breach disclosure rules take effect, here's what you need to know
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Post-Brexit Britain is splurging more on state aid
• The World Takes Advantage of U.S. on Drug Prices
• Andrew Cuomo Has Seen the Light
• Perilous migrant crossings of the Mediterranean are rising
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The lethal negligence of politicians in Morocco and Libya
• Jordan Peterson thinks Labour will ruin Britain. Has no one told him about the Tories? | Zoe Williams
• 30 Best Online Co-Op Games (2023): Playstation, Xbox, PC, Switch
• Boneheaded anti-immigration politicians are throttling globalisation
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• This week's covers
• An unusual museum in China is dedicated to Vinegar Joe
• T3SF - Technical Tabletop Exercises Simulation Framework
• Narendra Modi has shifted India from the Palestinians to Israel
• There's more than one way to spay a cat
• External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
• Italy's protected sectors need exposure to more competition
• KAL's cartoon
• The Supreme Court rules against Britain's Rwanda plan. What now?
• Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• The world's most liveable cities in 2023
• India is seeing a massive aviation boom
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Russia's brutal mercenaries probably won't matter much in Ukraine
• Why young consumers love Birkenstocks
• Bolivia is on the brink of an economic crisis
• This week in The Economist
• Dog 'Language Geniuses' Are Rare but Apparently Real
• The Supreme Court may toss out Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement
• Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days
• Tyrant, liberator, warmonger, bureaucrat: the meaning of Napoleon
• 'Real MVP': A professor gives a shout out to the student who nods along in class
• Inside a month of America's school shootings
• Will Chad be the next Western ally in Africa to fall?
• Can America's stockmarket rally last?
• Academics fight back against donors' influence after turmoil at Penn
• Business
• The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Steam Deck OLED Review: My Favorite New Gaming Handheld of 2023 - CNET
• An Apple AirTags four-pack is back on sale for $80
• Can Europe's power grid cope with the green transition?
• M.S. Swaminathan, the man who fed India
• The Little-Known Rule Change That Made the Supreme Court So Powerful
• Despite its sympathies, Egypt is unlikely to help Palestinian refugees
• What Google's antitrust defeat means for the app economy
• Which city is the cheapest in the world?
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador puts his stamp on Mexico's schools
• Inside the Spectocracy
• A MAGA court in New Orleans is shaping the Supreme Court's agenda
• The best podcasts of 2021
• What if Hollywood blockbusters were remade as workplace dramas?
• Beyond Montreal: a year on has the world lived up to the promises made at nature summit?
• Musk's X Faces Probe in Europe Over Handling of Illegal Content, Disinformation
• Paula Rego was a painter of rage, longing and loneliness
• Google's Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom
• The economic year ahead will not be binary
• Macau offers a new way to get rich
• Kenya wants to pioneer a new African approach to global warming
• Rudy Giuliani's $148 Million Treachery
• It's OK to gerrymander, as long you discriminate by politics
• Thousands of Ukrainian men are avoiding military service
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• Elon Musk's New Monkey Death Claims Spur Fresh Demands for an SEC Investigation
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• "Homeland economics" will make the world poorer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Brutal urban warfare awaits Israel's army in Gaza
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• Elon Musk Says Alex Jones Can Return to X, Reversing His Stance From Last Year
• Can computing clean up its act?
• Israel's war economy is working—for the time being
• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago
• An Experimental Treatment Could Help COVID Smell Distortion
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Japan's porn industry comes out of the shadows
• Ukraine inches closer to joining the EU
• How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
• Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium
• Will a fiscal mess thwart Japan's nascent economic growth?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Apple to Halt Watch Sales as It Prepares to Comply With U.S. Import Ban
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• This Pill Tracks Your Vitals From the Inside
• Are America's CEOs overpaid?
• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Microsoft Targets Nuclear to Power AI Operations
• X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news
• Amid turmoil in China's property market, the public seethes
• 'If we fail, the NHS will fail': Tories' drive to cut migration leaves social care on a cliff-edge
• KAL's cartoon
• Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial
• Canada's miserly defence spending is increasingly embarrassing
• America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence
• Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A boost for Germany's right
• Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise
• BP Withdraws Tankers From Red Sea as Rebel Attacks Rattle Global Trade
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's chancellor offers tax cuts and fiscal trickery
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
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• German business is fed up with a government in disarray
• KAL's cartoon
• The Belt and Road, as seen from China
• OMV, Austria's energy major, reimagines its future
• Scientists have published an atlas of the brain
• Buying Used Tech This Holiday Season Can Avert Human Rights Abuses
• Elijah Wood and Mike Tyson Cameo Videos Were Used in a Russian Disinformation Campaign
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Is a Blast to the Future
• Holiday Toy Gifts for Kids---That Parents Won't Think Are Hideous
• China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
• Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier
• How economists have underestimated Chinese consumption
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• The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started
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• Narendra Modi is remaking India's 1.4m strong military
• The green revolution will stall without Latin America's lithium
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• Unhinged Conspiracies, AI Doppelgangers, and the Fractured Reality of Naomi Klein
• The mystery of Britain's dirt-cheap stockmarket
• The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
• Why economists are at war over inequality
• Britain is failing citizens who are unlawfully detained overseas
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• Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?
• A chunk of asteroid is coming to Earth
• China curtails 'dangerous' fighter jet manoeuvres after Xi-Biden summit
• The city that encapsulates China's economic stagnation
• The Middle East's economy is caught in the crossfire
• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
• Best of 2023: Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote – podcast
• Xi Jinping builds a 21st-century police state
• Sony's New Access Controller Reveals a Big Problem in Adaptive Gaming
• A glimpse of the Conservative Party after Rishi Sunak
• A jobs bonanza stirs fears the American economy is overheating
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• The economics of pumpkin patches
• Labour wins big in a Scottish by-election
• NetProbe - Network Probe
• When should Rishi Sunak call the next British election?
• North Korea is shutting embassies
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• AI Is Ravenous for Energy. Can It Be Satisfied?
• Britain's national parks are not protecting nature
• Donald Trump will "never" support Putin, says Volodymyr Zelensky
• When It Comes to January 6 Lawsuits, a Court Splits Donald Trump in Two
• Cashless talk
• China is struggling with a surge of respiratory ailments
• A key part of Obamacare is in jeopardy
• The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
• The next threat to commodity supplies will be El Niño
• E.V. Start-up Founder Could Get Prison Term in Fraud Case
• Could OpenAI be the next tech giant?
• After an unsuccessful boycott, women's tennis is back in China
• Chile is still haunted by the coup in September 1973
• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
• Why it might be time to buy banks
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• Latin America's single mothers are being left behind
• People are leaving some neighborhoods because of floods, a new study finds
• Northern China has been hit by devastating floods
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• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
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• South-East Asian democracy is declining
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• Xi Jinping worries that China's troops are not ready to fight
• The Supreme Court will decide how quickly Donald Trump is prosecuted
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• Israeli hostages now face a terrifying ordeal
• US lawmakers call for DOJ to investigate Apple for blocking Beeper's iMessage app
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