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• NASA's Perseverance Rover Discovers a Rock That May Contain Alien Microfossils
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• US investors trigger major Wall Street sell-off over recession fears
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• 'Nobody knows what I know': how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationalism
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• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
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• The deal that freed Evan Gershkovich was more than a prisoner swap
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• The Supreme Court's Contempt for History Promises a Worse Racial Future for U.S.
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• KAL's cartoon
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• Donald Trump tries to be both unifier and pugilist in his convention speech
• Oil's endgame will be in the Gulf
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• How the beach volleyball venue became one of the Paris Olympics' hottest tickets
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• Olympics chiefs blame 'misleading information' for women's boxing row
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• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
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• Sex Testing in the Olympics and Other Elite Sports Is Based on Flawed Science
• Walmart's latest product? Its customers
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• A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers
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• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
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• How Amos Vogel changed American film culture
• Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China
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• Boeing Reports Additional $125 Million Loss on Troubled Starliner
• The rise of the truly cruel summer
• Mexico's president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
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• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
• The science that built the AI revolution
• What are America's Libertarians for?
• 'Ultra-cheap energy for every household': could a different kind of tariff change everything?
• Meet the Swedish firm trying to shake up heat pumps
• Britain's railways go from one extreme to another
• Narendra Modi's secret weapon: India's diaspora
• Iran's attack has left Israel in a difficult position
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• The world's deadliest war last year wasn't in Ukraine
• America's Asian allies are trying to Trump-proof their policies
• Mike Sadler guided the first SAS raiders through the North African desert
• 2023 looks set to be a watershed year for the climate
• UN calls for foreign security forces to be deployed faster to quash Haiti gang wars
• Cuba's private-sector experiment is faltering
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
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• How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes
• KAL's cartoon
• Iran's new leaders stand at a nuclear precipice
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• America's elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal
• Erik ten Hag: 'I don't need a longer contract. I don't need that security'
• The irrelevance of Mercosur
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• How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own
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• India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth
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• China's leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
• The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
• Exxon Earnings Jump, While Chevron Drops: What You Need to Know
• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
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• Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
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• How Rachel Reeves, Britain's probable next chancellor, wants to change the country
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• What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China's economy
• The world court says Israel's occupation is illegal
• Global stocks extend sell-off as Japan suffers worst day since 2016
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• Kung fu gives Africans their kicks
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• The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
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• Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
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• Five reasons why Indonesia's election matters
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• Trump Remarks on Harris's Multiracial Identity Overlook a Growing Trend
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
• Narendra Modi's flagship growth scheme is off to a sluggish start
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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