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• The fall of WeWork shows the deepening cracks in property
• James Lovelock changed the way human beings look at the Earth
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
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• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
• Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina
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• Where does the modern state come from?
• Inside the shared studio of Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
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• The 15 Best Movies You Missed in 2023—and Where to Watch Them
• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities
• A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4
• Apple is reportedly looking to team up with news publishers to train its AI
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• Isabel Crook devoted her long life to making a new China
• Are cities in Asia becoming better places to live?
• Could economic indicators give an early warning of a war over Taiwan?
• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
• The head of the hard-right Alternative for Germany is riding high
• Bibi Netanyahu is the wrong man in the wrong place
• Why Black Jesus Made My Grandmother Uncomfortable
• Can a $12 phone get 300m illiterate Indians online?
• Pemex is the world's most indebted oil company
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• The Toxic Truth About Your Christmas Tree
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Is Net Neutrality? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Narendra Modi and the art of claiming credit
• OpenAI became the nexus of the technology world in 2023
• Why there is a bear market in rhinos
• Does a civil-war-era ban on insurrectionists apply to Donald Trump?
• Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears
• McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the 'Smoking Gun' That Killed Their Startup
• Joan Didion's radical curiosity
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• Hong Kongers are bracing for an even wider clampdown on dissent
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• A year on from the white-paper protests, China looks much different
• Canadians are starting to sour on migration
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?
• Chicago's progressive coalition is struggling with migration
• Coming Soon: The Biggest Biodiversity Issues of 2024
• Should SSI Recipients File a Tax Return? What to Know - CNET
• The EU's rotating presidency should be scrapped
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Low Battery Metal Prices Set to Persist in 2024, Adding Friction to Energy Transition
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
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• 'Once I began, I couldn't stop': what's it like to become an artist later in life?
• Video: Busting globalisation myths
• Why urban warfare in Gaza will be bloodier than in Iraq
• The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America's Broken Privacy Protections
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• Azerbaijan wants to "reintegrate" Nagorno-Karabakh through force
• Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
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• Death, debts and democratic doubts in Africa
• BlackBerry Loss Widens Despite Higher Revenue
• The world's least liveable cities are starting to improve
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• China's Property Crisis Blew Up Investments That Couldn't Lose
• A caste census reopens old grudges in India
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• How the rapid growth of virtual wards is helping the NHS
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• Russell Brand was the norm in the nasty noughties
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• A devastating accusation by Justin Trudeau against India
• 2023 Was the Year Companies Found Out
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
• Illinois is the first state in America to abandon cash bail
• Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
• An Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan is on the point of starvation
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• The Chinese are working more hours than ever
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• Abu Dhabi throws a surprise challenger into the AI race
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• Britain is failing citizens who are unlawfully detained overseas
• China's banks may be loaded up with hidden bad loans
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• The French debate the future of steak frites
• Spanish minister hails deal to save Andalucía wetlands as a model for green transition
• Apple Appeals U.S. BanThat HaltedWatch Sales
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• How to survive a superpower split
• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
• China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
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• "Homeland economics" will make the world poorer
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• What Arm and Instacart say about the coming IPO wave
• America's Federal Reserve could soon be flying blind
• The Tantalizing Mystery of the Solar System's Hidden Oceans
• Curtain down! See out 2023 with our favourite portraits – in pictures
• Why it might be time to buy banks
• What kind of legacy does Rishi Sunak want to leave behind?
• Britain's native farm animals can be rarer than giant pandas
• Did bitcoin leak from an American spy lab?
• Ukraine's latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs
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• China's foreign minister goes missing
• At last, a convincing explanation for America's drug-death crisis
• The spat with India only adds to Justin Trudeau's woes
• Rwanda wants to be Africa's new cop on the beat
• North Korea is shutting embassies
• Israel faces the danger of fighting on a second front
• You Know It's a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
• Nissan's investment will not restore Britain's car industry to glory
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• The curse of the badly run meeting
• Netflix takes a swing at live sport
• The growing global movement to restrain house prices
• Britain's marathon rail strikes may be nearing an end
• Spain's institutions are groaning under partisan pressure
• The world should study China's crushing of Hong Kong's freedoms
• Why China is so keen to salvage shipwrecks in the South China Sea
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• Regulatory changes hint at what might be in store in a second Biden term
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China wants women to stay home and bear children
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• Video Game Adaptations Could Keep Beating Marvel at the Box Office in 2024
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• New industrial policies will make the world more unequal
• Scottish independence has become a long game
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• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• Construction Loans, Like Holiday Guests, Might Hang Around Too Long
• Real wages have risen in America and are rebounding in Europe
• Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• Mt. Gox Victims Report 'Double Repayments' From 2014 Bitcoin Hack
• The $7,500 tax credit for electric cars will see big changes in 2024. What to know
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• Britain's family-court system is overwhelmed
• Mexico's government has attacked the country's electoral watchdog
• Russia's brutal mercenaries probably won't matter much in Ukraine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Musk's X Faces Probe in Europe Over Handling of Illegal Content, Disinformation
• New Zealand tires of its cuddly liberal government
• Oil prices fall, defying suggestions of a $100 barrel
• Britain's chancellor offers tax cuts and fiscal trickery
• America's bad auto loans could have nasty consequences
• Geert Wilders's Dutch election win is a headache for Europe
• Evangelicals may soon rival Catholics in Latin America
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• How to Be Happy Growing Older
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• Egypt's rushed election shows Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is nervous
• An interview with the head of Ukraine's defence intelligence
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky's highly methodical madness
• Portugal's prime minister resigns over a corruption scandal
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• The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• Why New York wants to be more like London
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Post-Brexit Britain is splurging more on state aid
• A glimpse of the Conservative Party after Rishi Sunak
• The speech police are coming for social media
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
• Lula's ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality
• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• KAL's cartoon
• How we built a less-explodey lithium battery and kickstarted the EV revolution
• Afghanistan football president and coach forced me to fix matches, claims banned player
• Ubisoft reportedly stopped hackers from stealing 900GB of data in a breach this week
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• Trick Your Brain Into Being Better With Money
• KAL's cartoon
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• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
• Indians are going gooey over dogs
• Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
• These are the most expensive cities in North America
• How China sees Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny
• A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
• The weird but true history of cereal - from anti-sex campaigns to mind control
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
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• The world's most liveable cities in 2023
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• Autherine Lucy was an unlikely pioneer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Bob Menendez's indictment is colourful even by Jersey standards
• Is the Windsor framework in Northern Ireland working?
• New rules for America's green-hydrogen industry are controversial
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• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• Vaping is big business in Britain
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• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
• China's greying population is refusing to save for retirement
• Israel's window of legitimacy in Gaza is shrinking
• China's government launches a campaign against medical corruption
• Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi wins another stage-managed election in Egypt
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• Calling Our Times the 'Anthropocene Epoch' Matters Dearly to You
• An acrimonious debate about covid's origins will rumble on
• Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
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• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• Russian rapper jailed amid backlash over 'almost naked' party at Moscow nightclub
• Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves
• Three defence industry leaders removed from China advisory body
• The culture war over the Gaza war
• The uncertain future of Greeks in Turkey
• America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence
• Israeli soldiers fight to reach Hamas's headquarters
• Why investors cannot escape China exposure
• A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
• Carolyn Bryant's was the testimony that doomed Emmett Till
• Can computing clean up its act?
• Starry new productions show "Macbeth" is the tragedy for our times
• Part of Donald Trump's base thinks he is fighting a spiritual war
• The Bob Iger v Nelson Peltz rematch
• China's aggression brings Japan and the Philippines closer
• Best Adjustable Mattress for 2023 - CNET
• How to Use OpenAI's ChatGPT to Create Your Own Custom GPT
• The genius of Jilly Cooper, queen of British bonkbusters
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
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• The Gaza war has deepened Joe Biden's Iran nightmare
• New technology could cement Indonesia's dominance of vital nickel
• By averting a government shutdown, Kevin McCarthy risks his job
• A Belgian company wants to create woolly-mammoth burgers
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• Is the end of AIDS in sight?
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• Britain's Labour Party takes lessons from Joe Biden
• Why China is restricting exports of graphite
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• Now's the Time to Buy the Apple Watch Series 9 Before It Gets Banned Again
• What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
• The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption?
• The G20 summit will be a resounding success for India
• China is obsessed with food security. Climate change will challenge it
• America's next government shutdown could be the strangest yet
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Researchers Uncover the 'Most Sophisticated' iPhone Exploit Ever
• Directors pick the soundtracks for NPR's shows. Here are their own 2023 playlists
• This Clever New Idea Could Fix AirTag Stalking While Maximizing Privacy
• A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak
• Could AI help find valuable mineral deposits?
• Shane Warne believed that cricket should always be fun
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The clock is ticking on an old deal between America and China
• Finding aliens means studying new sorts of planet
• Top Social Media Trends 2023: Roman Empire, Grimace Shake, Keith Lee and More
• The EU's endless search for a migration fix
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• How Asia is reinventing its economic model
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• Despite its sympathies, Egypt is unlikely to help Palestinian refugees
• Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
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• Univision, America's Spanish news giant, reaches out to Donald Trump
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• The EU is finally rebooting the enlargement machine
• The Race to Fill Crypto's FTX-Shaped Hole
• How confusing fetal-personhood laws in America affect hospitals
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• India's lunar triumph
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• "Grief camps" help Ukrainian children face the loss of parents
• Apple Keeps Chasing the Ultimate Health-Tracking Watch---but It Could Take Years
• Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are a blow to global trade
• Sorry California, Amazon Will No Longer Sell You Donkey Meat
• Chinese art students scrawled Communist graffiti in London's Brick Lane
• Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
• Who will fill the expelled George Santos's seat?
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• China is educating engineers around the world
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• The best books we read in 2023
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• Myanmar's junta suffers startling defeats
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• The many prices of carbon dioxide
• EU Investigates Elon Musk's X for Spreading Illegal Content
• Slovakia gives pro-Russian populist nationalism another win
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• What America should really learn from Dianne Feinstein
• Israeli strikes across Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians, even in largely emptied north
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• Paralysis in Congress makes America a dysfunctional superpower
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• How the Moon Shaped Human History, from Religion to Climate
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• Paris and Berlin compromise on reform of the electricity market
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• Carbon-dioxide-removal options are multiplying
• Brutal urban warfare awaits Israel's army in Gaza
• How rationing became the fashion under the Tories
• It's not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
• Brexit was wrong, say 57% of British voters
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• Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world
• Boneheaded anti-immigration politicians are throttling globalisation
• China's economy may be growing faster, but big problems remain
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• Three climate fights will dominate COP28
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• A mysterious attack in northern Kosovo rattles everyone
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