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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Meteorite impacts produce most of moon's thin atmosphere, study reveals
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• Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists
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• BAE Systems Lifts Guidance After Sales Jump
• Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
• Vladimir Putin says the world's energy infrastructure is "at risk"
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• The potential listing of Shein is a test of London's allure
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Intel to lay off 15,000 employees
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• Helen Toner on the OpenAI coup: 'It was about trust and accountability'
• Australians are no longer united on Aboriginal rights
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• The world's most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
• DOJ sues TikTok, accusing the company of illegally collecting children's data
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• Trump election interference case returns to D.C. after immunity ruling
• Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya
• Why fake research is rampant in China
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• How Asia's wild west shakes up the modern world
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's Labour government has declared war on NIMBYs
• Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
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• How Ukraine's enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
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• Tesla sued over fatal Autopilot crash
• Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us
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• The world's most violent region needs a new approach to crime
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• Sources and acknowledgments
• Why 2024 could become the hottest year on record
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• The builder of the Titanic is struggling to stay afloat
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• Elon Musk could earn more at Tesla than other company bosses
• Why India should create dozens of new states
• A Sudanese gathering outside the country proposes a third way
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• How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
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• Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities
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• Nicolás Maduro's sham election: the sequel
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• Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
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