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• Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
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• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
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• Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world
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• How an English miner's daughter rose to work in the White House
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
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• Chinese state banks cut deposit rates in bid to stimulate growth
• Geert Wilders struggles towards power in the Netherlands
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• Ukraine's latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs
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• Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
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• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
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• Sony won't take away your PlayStation-bought Discovery shows after all
• Bitcoin Rose on Rumors in 2023. How to Predict What Comes Next.
• Musk's X Faces Probe in Europe Over Handling of Illegal Content, Disinformation
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• Turkey's president picks a fight with the Council of Europe
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• The art of superforecasting: how FT readers fared against the experts in 2023
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• Seven years after a terrorist attack, Nice has rebuilt itself
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• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
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• Salesforce escaped from the jaws of activists to find stability in 2023
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• At last, a convincing explanation for America's drug-death crisis
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• Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
• Australia's energy transition is in trouble
• The speech police are coming for social media
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• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
• Our tracker of voters' intentions shows the contest behind Trump
• The outsize influence of small states is fading in the EU
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• Microsoft is nixing its Windows mixed reality platform
• Biden pleads the case for Israel, Ukraine—and American leadership
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• Are Canadian cities better than America's?
• Poor Asian countries face an ageing crisis
• Ukraine inches closer to joining the EU
• China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
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• The genius of Jilly Cooper, queen of British bonkbusters
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• Chicago's progressive coalition is struggling with migration
• 'Don't cry, I'm here now': free after eight years in an Israeli prison – video
• Carolyn Bryant's was the testimony that doomed Emmett Till
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
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• Goldman Sachs boosts bonuses for traders despite fall in revenues
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• An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done
• 'You better pray': Christian nationalist groups are mobilizing before the 2024 elections
• Do Labour's plans for Britain's private schools make sense?
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of major software issues
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• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• How a Rwandan gambit consumed the Conservative Party
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• Ukraine's allies are scrambling to bolster its air defences
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• Beeper's iMessage Fight With Apple Has Blown Up Into a Debate Over Regulating Big Tech
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• A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow
• China wants women to stay home and bear children
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• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• Australia edge first day as Pakistan spill chances during rain-interrupted start to Boxing Day Test
• Joan Didion's radical curiosity
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• Outrage against femicide is spreading in Italy
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• China tries to figure out whom a hit song is mocking
• Congo's crucial election may be heading for disaster
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• The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world
• America says it will send long-range missiles to Ukraine
• Glenda Jackson left acting for politics—and then returned
• Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial
• Northern China has been hit by devastating floods
• Are America's allies the holes in its export-control fence?
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• California is losing people, but this region wouldn't know it
• Rishi Sunak's anti-green turn on Britain's climate targets
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• Britain's Labour Party takes lessons from Joe Biden
• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• Police step up patrols in Dublin after restaurant shooting on Christmas Eve
• Why rail electrification is so slow in Britain
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• 'Let's have a Sunderland Barbie': Leo Pearlman on his plan to build a new Hollywood on Wearside
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• Britain's mental-health crisis is a tale of unintended consequences
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• Why urban warfare in Gaza will be bloodier than in Iraq
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• Top robotics names discuss humanoids, generative AI and more
• How rationing became the fashion under the Tories
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• China tells its citizens to be on the lookout for spies
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• Egyptian officials tout a preliminary plan to end the Israel-Hamas war
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• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
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• India's Supreme Court refuses to recognise same-sex marriage
• Binyamin Netanyahu is at the mercy of his hardline coalition partners
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• The pet I'll never forget: Jeanette Winterson on Silver, 'the brightest cat I have ever had'
• The worst job in Washington is within Steve Scalise's grasp
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• How western governments took down Europe's most powerful crime group
• Many of the world's new mpox cases are in China
• Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
• A Hamas leader refuses to admit his group planned to kill civilians
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• KAL's cartoon
• Xi Jinping's grip on Chinese enterprise gets uncomfortably tight
• China's economy is a mess. Why aren't firms going under?
• A MAGA court in New Orleans is shaping the Supreme Court's agenda
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• Is Britain's plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda salvageable?
• How pop culture went multipolar
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• Narendra Modi and the art of claiming credit
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• China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
• Why Chinese companies are flocking to Mexico
• New technology could cement Indonesia's dominance of vital nickel
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• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• Harvard faculty called for members of the university's governing board to step down as the school struggles with reputational damage and demands for the resignation of President Claudine Gay.
• A clue to China's true covid-19 death toll
• Britain must overhaul the way it approves infrastructure
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• The best VR accessories for 2024
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• Latin America is set to become a major oil producer this decade
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• Europe's conservative populists pit migrants against babies
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• The rich world claims it has paid its overdue climate debts
• Will TikTok's GoTo gambit save its Indonesian business?
• Nigeria is awash with dangerous pesticides
• Lebanon's prime minister, Najib Mikati, has a peace plan for Gaza
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• Muhammad Amir Muhammad Khan fought India's government for five decades
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• LG unveils new 480Hz HD gaming monitor ahead of CES that can switch to 4K 240Hz with a click
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• The path ahead for China's Belt and Road Initiative
• Where will the next coup be in Africa?
• Visualising India's record-breaking rainfall
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• Uzbekistan's Bukharan Jews are disappearing
• How the rapid growth of virtual wards is helping the NHS
• Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Should've Existed This Weekend
• America Lost Its One Perfect Tree
• How a tide of tech money is transforming charity
• Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure
• Angst mounts over Germany's green transition
• The Gaza war could help set speech free again
• New Zealand mayor clarifies there's no need to 'stop pooing' amid town's sewerage stench crisis
• The Best Laptops In 2023
• Rishi Sunak's misguided attempt to woo irritated British drivers
• A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Inside Mathematicians' Search for the Mysterious 'Einstein Tile'
• The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Authoritarianism
• Can Egypt be persuaded to accept Gazan refugees?
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• Mexico could elect its first female president next year
• A Chinese opera star's ode to Russia—from a Ukrainian bomb site
• Americans are discovering the joy of a true pint of beer
• The best couch co-op games for PC, Nintendo Switch, PS5 and Xbox
• India is seeing a massive aviation boom
• How carbon prices are taking over the world
• Politics
• After its brutal attack, Hamas is calculating its next move
• Meet Matus Vallo, Bratislava's hipster mayor-architect
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Bob Iger v Nelson Peltz rematch
• Tesla is recalling 120,000 vehicles in the US over a door safety issue
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to avoid a common investment mistake
• Ravens vs. 49ers Livestream: How to Watch NFL on Christmas Day Online - CNET
• Donald Trump is the conservative media
• Fed rate pivot leaves stocks and bonds with 'no room for error'
• Google Just Denied Cops a Key Surveillance Tool
• Italy needs more migrants, but has trouble admitting it
• This week's covers
• China's ties with America are warming, a bit
• Open Channel: Tell Us What You Thought About Rebel Moon and Aquaman 2
• Guava Family Roam Stroller Review (2023): Convenient Jogging Stroller
• Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier
• An animated documentary tells the story of Amin, an Afghan refugee
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Chinese yuan is losing value, yet gaining ground
• The best films of 2021
• How anti-obesity drugs built the world's largest charitable foundation