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Prince William builds a high street
Go ahead and laugh. Your local shopping street will soon resemble it
Opinion newsletter: Why Indonesia is stuck at a roundabout
Simon Long, our editor-at-large, says that many of today’s problems are the same as those he wrote about two decades ago
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Russia has seized a Japanese journalist
Vladimir Putin may be preparing for a prisoner exchange. Pressuring Japan also pleases China
The Climate Issue newsletter: How slow can you go?
Oliver Morton, our planetary-affairs editor, laments the speed at which the IPCC delivers vital climatic stocktakes
China’s most successful Astroturf operation: grassroots football
Provincial leagues spur spending and a hometown renaissance
UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher ‘campaign of rape’
Commanders suspected of sexual violence during the largest and fastest slaughter of civilians in more than 30 years have been subjected to travel ban and asset freezeSenior Sudanese commanders implicated...
Bartleby newsletter: In praise of praise
Andrew Palmer, our Bartleby columnist, thinks you did a great job today
US forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño
Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it...
From this day, fourth: Lula’s surprise win
Also on the daily podcast: the start of our American-midterms series and why just about everywhere sells merch now
The “let-it-rip” camp is wrong on AI
They make four main arguments and all of them are flawed, write Bridgewater’s Nir Bar Dea and Greg Jensen
Sudan paramilitary drone strikes cause mass power cuts in eastern states
Rapid Support Forces strike five power stations in three states controlled by Sudanese armySudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have launched a coordinated drone attack against five power stations, causing mass...