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• Can Xi Jinping control AI without crushing it?
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• 'Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.' The Story of Oppenheimer's Infamous Quote
• Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway
• China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
• The U.S. military said it is sending additional warships and Marines to the Middle East in an effort to deter Iran from seizing more ships in the region.
• Should Britain change its abortion laws?
• Startups are producing real dairy without a cow in sight
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• The world's peak population may be smaller than expected
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• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• Joe Biden fires the starting gun on the presidential race
• A lot can be done to adapt farming to near-term climate change
• Elon Musk's Grand xAI Plans
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• The 'Spider-Man 2' story trailer teases more Venom, more villains and more drama
• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• Sudan's war is home-grown, but risks drawing in outsiders
• How covid-19 spurred governments to snoop on sewage
• A short history of Hollywood's poison-pen letters to itself
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The scandal at the Confederation of British Industry may be terminal
• Horse-racing in America needs to improve its odds
• A new TB vaccine could save 8.5m lives over the next quarter of a century
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vladimir Putin says the world's energy infrastructure is "at risk"
• Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again
• African governments say credit-rating agencies are biased against them
• Why are corporate retreats so extravagant?
• New drugs may protect girls having sex with older men from HIV
• Dealmaking has slowed—except among dealmakers
• Instant payments finally reach America with FedNow
• Climate change is harder on less educated people
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• The most expensive cities in which to celebrate Valentine's Day
• Josephine Chaplin, actor and daughter of Charlie Chaplin, dies aged 74
• Russia Boosts Rates as Ukraine War Costs Mount
• Vladimir Putin's courts are stepping up repression
• Narendra Modi's yoga evangelism
• Romania's hot economy is attracting foreign workers
• Indian firms are flocking to the United Arab Emirates
• A pilgrimage to the mecca of mediumship
• Attack of the feral parakeets in New York
• Streaming Brought Hollywood to a Standstill. Now Comes the Pain.
• Narendra Modi is rebuilding New Delhi
• Gene-editing has created a generation of musical crops
• NYPD Body Cam Data Shows the Scale of Violence Against Protesters
• How Taiwan is shaped by its history and identity
• UPS Contract Talks Go Down to the Wire as a Possible Strike Looms
• A film about Argentina's history sheds light on its politics today
• Indians are flocking to study at British universities
• A Hair Loss Study Raises New Questions About Aging Cells
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain hands Microsoft's Activision deal an extra life
• India: Delhi flooded after swollen river breaks through broken regulator – video report
• Nearly all Louisiana's death-row inmates have filed for clemency
• After 20 years of trauma, Iraq is struggling to recover
• The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea
• Hindenburg Research takes on Carl Icahn
• Ukraine is counter-attacking in multiple directions, with mixed results
• Obituary: Colin Powell thought America should tread carefully in the world
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• Heartstopper's Kit Connor: 'I wasn't used to the idea of millions of people being interested in my private life'
• Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
• Turkish property prices are soaring
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• If English nationalism is on the rise, no one has told the English
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• How I learnt to live with shyness
• Violent crime in America
• Fusion power is coming back into fashion
• Britons should brace for more travel chaos
• Congress should fund the BLM (no, not that one)
• Britain's new political sorcerer: the Reform Fairy
• Canada's wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
• Greece faces hottest July weekend in 50 years, forecaster says, as scores of wildfires rage
• A difficult new world
• Africa faces a mounting debt crisis
• Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are missing in action
• Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram
• Japan's hot-spring resorts are blocking geothermal energy plants
• The tug-of-war between Glencore and Teck
• Adding up the fiscal drag from ageing, energy and defence
• The Taliban have launched an impressive new war on drugs
• A Decade Ago, Jeff Bezos Bought a Newspaper. Now He's Paying Attention to It Again.
• How to Survive a Devastating Earthquake—and Firestorm
• Can baseball fans be won over by the world's second-biggest sport?
• For Giorgia Meloni, supporting Ukraine has some useful benefits
• How to be a superstar on Zoom
• New Zealand is right to atone for its colonial crimes in the Pacific
• At last, Xi Jinping calls Volodymyr Zelensky
• America's state lawmakers are passing ineffective anti-porn laws
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• Elon Musk's Grand xAI Plans
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• The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation
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• Albania is no longer a bad Balkan joke
• The Moment of Truth for Our Liar in Chief
• Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
• Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat
• Why are more British adults still living with their parents?
• Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
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• Time Flowed Five Times Slower Shortly after the Big Bang
• California may punt on paying reparations to the descendants of slaves
• Despite a crash, Indian railways have an impressive safety record
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
• The potential and the plight of the middle manager
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• Southern Baptists are arguing about the extent of male authority
• The best memes of 2021
• How, if at all, might Russia be punished for its war crimes in Ukraine?
• Amazon Asks Some Employees to Relocate to 'Main Hub' Offices
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Milan Kundera believed that truth lay in endless questioning
• Untangling the U.S. From China's Economy Is Messy
• Cristina Calderón was the only full-blooded member of her people
• Quantifying the rise of America's far right
• The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head—and How to Stop Them
• The fault lines in America's China policy
• Donald Trump has become more dangerous
• US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It
• A dictator and his entitled son are holding Uganda captive
• Amazon's Fire TV Stick 4K Max is nearly half off right now
• Seven AI companies commit to safeguards at the White House's request
• The war in Ukraine is boosting Israel's arms exports
• Spanish renewable-energy development is waking from its siesta
• Voters give Britain's ruling Conservatives a historic mauling
• 15 Best Deals: Desktop Monitors, Gaming Keyboards, and Sex Toys
• As Lula takes over, Brazil's economic prospects are looking up
• Why Is Europe's Latest Heat Wave Called Cerberus? It's Complicated
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
• Vladimir Putin has rallied the West
• French bulldogs are taking over America
• Latin America's prisons are overcrowded and violent
• China's new Great Wall
• 'We can't escape': climate crisis is driving up cost of living in the US west
• China's public is fed up, but not on the brink of revolt
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• Greece votes, again, following the sinking of a migrant boat
• What does China's reopening mean for Latin America?
• A Novel Type of Neural Network Comes to the Aid of Big Physics
• Nearby Supernova Gives Unique View of a Dying Star's Last Days
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Vladimir Putin provokes—and complicates—the struggle against autocracy
• The Supreme Court Should Back Firearms Restraints That Save Lives
• Why self-storage is turning into hot property
• How China's police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
• Why many American states and cities are changing their flags
• Go First's insolvency tests India's bankruptcy regime
• How Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would govern Brazil
• Why activist investors are going to have a busy year
• What Will Your Streaming Bill Look Like in 2033?
• The New Minstrels Are Here
• FedNow is finally live in the US
• Good Omens Goes Behind the Scenes of Season 2 for San Diego Comic-Con
• Tony Bennett's 10 Essential Songs
• How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
• To Save Itself, Hollywood Must Build Its Own ChatGPT
• The Remarkable Resilience of Ukraine's Tech Sector
• Ukraine's assault in Zaporizhia may be the focus of its offensive
• The conflict in Ukraine risks inflaming the Sino-American rivalry
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• Tree-felling is at the centre of disputes across Britain
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• Artists hope to turn selfies into comets
• Why South Africa is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit
• Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
• The last, unfulfilled dream of Jamie Dimon, king of Wall Street
• Rioting in France presents a fresh political test for Emmanuel Macron
• The Top New Features in MacOS Sonoma: Release Date and Compatible Macs
• Is mining set for a new wave of mega-mergers?
• India, an aspiring digital superpower, keeps shutting down the internet
• Wines That Entertain as Well as Impress
• Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-to-Repair Fight. Critics Aren't Ready to Make Peace
• Singapore is the world leader in selling cultivated meat
• In its tech war with America, China brings out the big guns
• 'In a world that is going to hell, there is still so much joy': Ann Patchett on finding happiness
• Inflation has yet to dent big food's earnings
• An American soldier has deserted to North Korea
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• The Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses
• Anne Saxelby was a champion of artisan farmers and their wares
• Egypt's army seems to want to make pasta as well as war
• Amazon builds new Florida satellite facility for its Starlink rival
• Gene-Edited Yeast Is Taking Over Craft Beer
• The Snow Crab Vanishes
• Don't Ask Dumb Robots If AI Will Destroy Humanity
• Why Xi Jinping is not another Chairman Mao
• Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
• Brian Harman hunts first major but McIlroy not ruling himself out of Open
• Siemens's wind-turbine business is blown off course
• Foreign visitors to China can finally go cashless like locals
• Stephen Sondheim wanted to explore a new world every time
• China's rulers play the law-and-order card, and lose
• Why right-wing Europeans are flocking to an English thinker
• Sappers risk their lives to win Ukraine back, inch by inch
• NYC Is Using AI to Scan Subway Fare Dodgers for 'Research Purposes'
• Roman civil engineering has lessons for the modern world
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's economy may grow by more than expected, but inflation is stickier
• Under Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua has become a one-party state
• Bernard Haitink believed that genius should speak for itself
• Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition PS5 Swinging Into Stores in September - CNET
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• Uganda's harsh anti-gay bill is now law
• Forget What the Song Says. Tony Bennett's Heart Never Left New York.
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• America accuses South Africa of sending arms to Russia
• Don't Join Threads—Make Instagram's 'Twitter Killer' Join You
• Cashless talk
• Japan is making asylum even harder for refugees
• Who will succeed Shia Islam's top man?
• Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy
• Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
• Tensions will linger over a Chinese balloon downed by America
• How Japanese policymakers ended up in a very deep hole
• A generation after Germany reunited, deep divisions remain
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• San Diego Comic-Con 2023: Some of the Coolest Stuff We Saw On the Floor
• Farewell, Mark Rutte, the Tiggerish Dutch prime minister
• Europeans: are you being affected by high temperatures?
• America's culture wars threaten its single market
• Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
• Poland's government may seek to bar opponents from politics
• A new generation of Argentine musicians is topping the charts
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Peru has an incompetent president and a discredited Congress
• KAL's cartoon
• The Heat Wave Scorching the US Is a Self-Perpetuating Monster
• Interview With the Vampire Steps on to the Stage for Season 2
• New Jersey sues to block New York City's congestion pricing scheme
• Denmark v China: Women's World Cup 2023 – live
• Binyamin Netanyahu has lost his aura of invincibility
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How a tide of tech money is transforming charity
• Business
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• Are cities in Asia becoming better places to live?
• Summer Camps Are Disrupted by Extreme Weather
• Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better
• An animated documentary tells the story of Amin, an Afghan refugee
• Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people
• Avoid These 10 Foods Before Bed - CNET
• North Koreans are at growing risk of starvation
• How ChatGPT could help teachers and lower the cost of college
• Ready for the Hot Tourist Summer?
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Blackbone - Windows Memory Hacking Library
• Thailand was EIU's most improved democracy of 2022
• Dow Notches Longest Win Streak Since 2017
• Labour's cabinet would be Britain's most state-educated since 1945
• Regime change
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• Google rolls out Android app streaming to Chromebooks following beta
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• England may soon become the world's best cricket team
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Are greedy corporations causing inflation?
• Sir Tony Blair mesmerises the Labour Party, again
• Almost 50 Years Into the Crypto Wars, Encryption's Opponents Are Still Wrong
• Our early-adopters index examines how corporate America is deploying AI
• Why South Korean tattooists are being marked as criminals
• Trump's criminal trial over his handling of classified documents is set to start in May, a federal judge said, underscoring his challenge in waging courtroom battles during his bid to win back the presidency in 2024.
• Amritpal Singh, self-declared leader of Sikh separatism, is arrested in India
• A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak
• Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
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• Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal shortage
• Bronze Age Cemetery Found on Future Site of U.K. Launch Pad
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Trump classified documents trial date set for May 2024
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• Investor Group Nears $125 Million Deal for CoinDesk
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'Mind Blowing' Trojan Planet Suspected of Sharing the Same Orbit as Its Sibling
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• KAL's cartoon
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• Hormone tests for women's fertility seem not to work
• A Lego-lover's guide to preparing for the AI age
• Germany's new strategy for dealings with China
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• Please Stop Asking Chatbots for Love Advice
• The Daniel Perry case shows the contradictions of gun enthusiasts in Texas
• We're hiring a new Washington correspondent
• Policymakers are likely to jettison their 2% inflation targets
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
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• The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law
• Why have Russia's armed forces been so ineffective in Ukraine?
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Ready to Start Moving On
• Ideas for finding ET are getting more inventive
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
• Tony Bennett, US singer with seven-decade career, dies aged 96
• Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
• LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
• DARPA, lasers and an internet in orbit
• Covid-19 has pushed governments to find new ways to help the poor
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Goodbye VR, hello AR, and can AI be more human, plz?
• How Gilead Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy
• NATO is drafting new plans to defend Europe
• The week around the world in 20 pictures
• Antarctic sea ice has shrunk by an area nine times the size of Britain
• The market for dinosaur fossils is booming
• Investors go back into battle with rising interest rates
• The invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war, but it is the most viral
• Israel's angsty 75th anniversary
• Weather tracker: records fall but worst of Europe's heatwave may yet be to come
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• Barbie world: fans across the globe celebrate movie release – in pictures
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
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• Dow Edges Higher, Its 10th Gain in a Row
• Vladimir Putin wants to militarise Russian schools
• Australia and Canada are one economy—with one set of flaws
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain plays catch-up in a global scramble for critical minerals
• China wants to change, or break, a world order set by others
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• An "electoral reform" in Mexico will make elections less safe
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• America is courting India in part for its growing economic clout
• The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden's student-debt-relief plan
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sabre-tooth tigers and dire wolves were in trouble before they vanished
• The West struggles to respond forcefully to Russia's war in Ukraine
• Imran Khan's arrest brings Pakistan closer to the edge
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• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• Javier Milei, an Argentine libertarian, is rising in the polls
• The rise of user-created video games
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• AI is making Washington smarter
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• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
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• Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
• Britain shoots down Microsoft's $69bn Activision deal
• France's top general on lessons from the battlefield
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Military briefing: the mines stalling Ukraine's advance
• Elderly populations mean more government spending
• The winners and losers from the $69bn Microsoft-Activision mega-deal
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• The meaty mystery at the heart of China's economic growth
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• Why Vladimir Putin is not a pariah in China
• The world's most liveable cities in 2023
• OpenAI's Trust and Safety Head Steps Down as Devs Pledge to Spend More Time Fixing ChatGPT
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• Massachusetts is not the gun-control beacon it once was
• 'Borderlands' movie is set to be released next August
• It turns out that Democrats bus migrants, too
• Why Africa is poised to become a big player in energy markets
• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
• America's plan to vet investments into China
• Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
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• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• The Risks of Sanctions, the Tool America Loves to Use
• An acrimonious debate about covid's origins will rumble on
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• Amazon is reportedly making employees relocate for return-to-office
• China is trying to win over Westerners and private firms
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• America's Rise as Energy Export Powerhouse Hinges on One Town
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• San Francisco's "woke maths" experiment
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• Why Sequoia Capital is sawing off its Chinese branch
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• Soccer star Megan Rapinoe says patriotism means demanding better of ourselves
• Poor areas suffered 3.5 times more damage in Turkey's earthquake
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• China's young want to work. For the government
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• The Race to Avert an Oil Spill That Could Cost $20 Billion to Fix
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
• Why America's Largest Tool Company Couldn't Make a Wrench in America
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
• Could the 14th Amendment fix America's debt-ceiling debacle?
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• How generative models could go wrong
• KAL's cartoon
• Quebec elects François Legault's fiercely nationalist party
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
• Genocide all over again?
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• Russia pushes plan to supply grain to Africa and cut out Ukraine
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• The Real Lesson From The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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• The strange success of the Tories' schools policy
• FTC puts internal trial over Microsoft-Activision deal on hold
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• A palatial museum of Edvard Munch's art opens in Oslo
• Hollywood's Future Belongs to People—Not Machines
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can the West win over the rest of the world?
• How to make Britain's AI dreams reality
• A Canadian lake could mark the start of humanity's geological epoch
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• Once Russia's best friend in the West, Austria is facing trouble
• Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing
• AMC Theaters reverses its decision to price tickets based on where customers sit
• After years of talks, indebted Arab states and the IMF are at an impasse
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• Large language models' ability to generate text also lets them plan and reason
• Why the death of Ukraine's grain deal is not moving wheat markets
• AMLO's austerity has hurt Mexico
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• What happens if America defaults on its debt?
• Investors brace for a painful crash into America's debt ceiling
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• Self-Driving Cars: The Complete Guide
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• Israel's government is still in a bind
• African countries are fed up with being marginalised in global institutions
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• What Life in Barbie's Dazzlingly Pink World Would Do to Her Brain--And Yours
• A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine
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• Iran's proxies in the Middle East remain a powerful force
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• How Campbeltown has responded to the boom in Scottish whisky
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