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• The pandemic's toll on schooling emerges in awful new exam results
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• 'Little upside and a lot of risk': Harris-Trump clash tests US CEOs
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• Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need
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• Thailand's top court tramples over the country's democracy
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• The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars 'talk' to each other
• Is this a new age of warrior Japan?
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• Keir Starmer wants to reset relations between Britain and Europe
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• In Catholic Argentina, Javier Milei embraces Judaism
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• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
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• Hamas's pick of Yahya Sinwar as leader makes a ceasefire less likely
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• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Muhammad Yunus, a microcredit pioneer, is Bangladesh's interim leader
• Can Kamala Harris win Michigan without Arab-American voters?
• After 12 years of blood, Assad's Syria rejoins the Arab League
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• Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• England's school reforms are earning fans abroad
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• Britain's army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador splashes out as elections loom
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• India has quietly transformed its ports
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• Producing fake information is getting easier
• Activision is finally addressing those massive Call of Duty download sizes
• A Single Iranian Hacker Group Targeted Both Presidential Campaigns, Google Says
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• How Iran covered up the damage from Israel's strikes
• Banks, at least, are making money from a turbulent world
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• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• Online publishers face a dilemma: Allow AI scraping from Google or lose search visibility
• ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy
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• The Mistake That Could Cost Trump the Election
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• Bangladesh's dictator flees—leaving behind a dangerous vacuum
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