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    • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
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      The European country playing off the US, Russia, China and Europe

      Serbia is forging close ties with Donald Trump’s team even as it attempts to pursue a middle course in a multipolar world

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      The age of drone warfare is disrupting the defence industry

      Rapidly evolving technology designed by smaller players is challenging the dominance of sluggish industry giants

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    • Friday, 5 July, 2024
      UK general election 2024
      How Starmer can succeed

      The new prime minister will need to use the political capital that comes from a huge majority if he is to keep populism at bay

      Clement Attlee, Stanley Baldwin, Keir Starmer, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair
    • Friday, 5 July, 2024
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      How the investment world is trying to navigate geopolitics

      An industry that has been hoovering up mathematicians to devise new trading strategies is now leaning on political scientists for guidance

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    • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
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      How France’s far right built a national movement

      Old school retail politics have helped bring Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National to the brink of political power

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    • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
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      Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks

      Shifting weather patterns are reducing crop yields and squeezing supplies, creating what could become a permanent source of inflation

    • Monday, 1 July, 2024
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      The foreign investors left stranded in Evergrande’s web of Chinese debt

      Overseas bondholders have discovered to their cost that they have little recourse in the Chinese system when boom turns to bust

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    • Friday, 28 June, 2024
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      As a changing climate makes southern counties ripe for viticulture, the largest producers are attracting investment from overseas

    • Friday, 28 June, 2024
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      With voters eager for change, polls suggest the party could lose a large number of its Westminster seats. But support for independence remains strong

    • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
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      Wanted: new soldiers for Europe’s shrinking armies

      Troop numbers are in decline in the UK, Germany, France and Italy. What might make more people serve?

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    • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
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      The giant Exxon project that could create the world’s last petrostate

      But critics fear the oil bonanza will turn Guyana into a victim of the ‘resources curse’

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    • Monday, 24 June, 2024
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      How the Conservatives lost touch with England’s prosperous south

      Not only do the polls say Labour will win back predominantly working-class areas in the north but also wealthy, southern Tory heartlands

    • Friday, 21 June, 2024
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      The chipmaker’s brief reign as the world’s most valuable company is a sign of the times for the emerging technology

    • Friday, 21 June, 2024
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      How companies are starting to back away from green targets

      In the past year, many have dropped or missed goals to cut emissions or to loosen ties with polluting sectors

    • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
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      How Russia is using nuclear power to win global influence

      Despite sanctions, Russian companies are building more than a third of the new reactors around the world, which is gaining Moscow new friends

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    • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
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      Researchers are trying to tackle the threat before nature’s ‘flying needles’ become more prevalent and resistant to prevention

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      The president came to office threatening to make the kingdom a pariah state. But in a volatile Middle East, their ties have become stronger than ever

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    • Friday, 14 June, 2024
      French politics
      The relentless rise of France’s far right

      Once consigned to the fringes, French voters now have to decide if they are ready to hand power to Marine Le Pen’s party

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    • Friday, 14 June, 2024
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      America’s election year battle over who polices online disinformation

      Libertarians allege collusion between academia, Big Tech and the government but researchers say they are being silenced

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    • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
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      Have the Tories squandered their years in power?

      The Conservatives say they have created jobs, improved schools and empowered cities. Critics say they have run the country into the ground

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    • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
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      Can the party that liberated South Africa still hold it together?

      Facing a Friday deadline to create a new coalition government, President Cyril Ramaphosa is trying to prevent economic chaos while avoiding new splits in the ANC

    • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
      UK housebuilding
      Could a Labour government break Britain’s planning deadlock?

      Radical reform has the potential to unlock housebuilding and pave the way for economic success — if Starmer’s party is bold enough

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    • Monday, 10 June, 2024
      Artificial intelligence
      Can Apple catch up with its rivals in the AI race?

      While Google and Microsoft forge ahead with innovations in generative AI, the iPhone maker risks being left behind

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    • Friday, 7 June, 2024
      Indian election
      The humbling of Narendra Modi

      The Indian prime minister won a third term but he now has to rely on a delicate coalition and faces a newly empowered opposition

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