1. How Ukraine’s naval drones hold Russia’s warships at bay

2. India’s government bans fantasy sports games

3. Zohran Mamdani is promising lots of things he can’t actually do

4. The world’s oldest daily radio serial on England’s new rural life

5. In some ways, rural Britain is changing faster than its cities

6. Fear the deficit-populism doom loop

7. The choices facing Britain’s next MI6 chief

8. The evolution of famine in Gaza, in maps and charts

9. Are saunas actually good for you?

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11. Donald Trump has purged one of the CIA’s most senior Russia analysts

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15. A burning threat to pregnant women

16. Does it make sense for America to keep subsidising a sinking city?

17. How Washington became Donald Trump’s chew toy

18. Friedrich Merz cuts a good figure abroad but is struggling at home

19. Why Turkey’s football clubs can pay more cash for talent

20. Europe is ablaze

21. Trump wants a Nobel prize. Europe can exploit that to help Ukraine

22. Big chocolate has a growing taste for lab-grown cocoa

23. China is quietly upstaging America with its open models

24. China’s hottest new look: the facekini

25. The last days of brainstorming

26. Who will America’s president listen to next on Ukraine?

27. Pregnant women need protecting from heatwaves

28. Britain leads the world in a new global business—a criminal one

29. Terence Stamp preferred philosophy to celebrity

30. Hong Kong’s courtroom dramas

31. A new twist in Syria: a political opposition

32. What’s in a name in the Middle East?

33. Gaza’s Gen-Z influencers

34. Are east African governments colluding to stifle dissent?

35. How Sierra Leone beat back mpox

36. After 20 years in power, Bolivia’s socialists crash out of it

37. The new fears of Cubans in Florida

38. Climate change threatens an Andean ski boom

39. Why Mexicans love Japan and Korea

40. England’s white working class falls further behind at exams

41. China’s mid-year economic wobble

42. American tech’s split personalities

43. Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?

44. The green transition has a surprising new home

45. Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?

46. To survive, Intel must break itself apart

47. The world is learning to live with the Taliban

48. Pakistan is critical in the fight against Islamic State terrorism

49. How fair are India’s elections?

50. TSMC could revolutionise rural Japan

51. Japan storms back into the chip wars

52. The world’s biggest chipmaker needs to move beyond Taiwan

53. Donald Trump’s fantasy of home-grown chipmaking

54. The McWages index: which countries earn the most Big Macs?

55. A court ruling threatens to disrupt Britain’s asylum policy

56. A new opposition could be a healthy sign for Syria

57. The discovery of a gene for chronic pain could herald new treatments

58. Old fossil-fuel plants are becoming green-energy hubs

59. AI-powered robots can take your phone apart

60. RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world

61. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to stop them from making it rain

62. What it means when Britain talks about “Bosh”

63. Security “guarantees” for Ukraine are not clear enough

64. Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks

65. The Democrats who find abundance liberalism threatening

66. Was globalisation ever a meritocracy?

67. How AI-enhanced hackers are stealing billions

68. The young American female soldiers of TikTok

69. Putin’s desire to destroy Western unity rages on

70. Blighty newsletter: How Britain became a theft capital

71. Putin’s “land swap” is really a grab for Ukraine’s fortress belt

72. Zelensky survives another episode of the Trump show

73. In praise of complicated investing strategies

74. How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy

75. The War Room newsletter: Why Putin’s peace plan is more like poison

76. Gangs are using increasingly sophisticated kit to steal cars

77. Why America can’t shake off inflation

78. Life after death for Canada’s crushed Conservatives

79. Welcome to the YIMBYest neighbourhood in America

80. The new geography of stolen goods

81. Fear and dread of a new Oval Office fiasco over Ukraine

82. The nightmare of a Trump-Putin pact isn’t over

83. The moral of “The Salt Path”, an embellished bestseller

84. Donald Trump’s gift to Vladimir Putin

85. What might Trumpian meddling mean for Intel?

86. Should you use a standing desk?

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88. Which are the deadliest European cities in a heatwave?

89. How to make sense of Donald Trump’s bizarre tariff rates

90. Must Europe choose between “strategic autonomy” and August off?

91. Razia Jan insisted on educating Afghanistan’s girls

92. America’s new plan to fight a war with China

93. The end of the second world war

94. China’s planned Turkish EV factories have yet to power up

95. The colourful civic groups that hold Germany together

96. Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation

97. Hong Kong is super superstitious

98. China claims to want women to have children and a career

99. Liberal Uruguay and the right to die

100. A martyr in the making?

101. Bolivia’s crazy kingdom of coca

102. Why the Trump administration excites some personal-injury lawyers

103. Texas’s renegade Democrats prepare for a glorious defeat

104. A 400-year-old Chinese cough syrup is winning over Westerners

105. Japan’s carmakers are trying to tinker their way out of tariff pain

106. Italian bosses want Giorgia Meloni to hurry up with reform

107. A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building

108. Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb?

109. America and its Asian allies need to spend more to deter China

110. The shutdown of ocean currents could freeze Europe

111. Why South Africa should scrap Black Economic Empowerment

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115. America’s biggest ask in Asia

116. Indonesia’s new president has daddy issues

117. What Sara Duterte’s comeback means for the Philippines

118. Ivory Coast’s president is overstaying his welcome

119. Lebanon’s government is taking on a weakened Hizbullah

120. The world’s hardest makeover: Hamas

121. The killing of journalists in Gaza

122. The Fantasy Premier League is changing Britain’s favourite sport

123. Asian tourists are returning to Britain. But they look different

124. The real collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

125. How to win at foreign policy

126. Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms

127. What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy

128. Where will win from Trump’s tariffs?

129. To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a 7trn question

130. China’s power over rare earths is not as great as it seems

131. Trump wants to command bosses like Xi. He is failing

132. Trump 2 is pushing environmentalists to rethink their approach

133. Drones could soon become more intrusive than ever

134. Smoke from boreal wildfires could cool the Arctic

135. Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points

136. Ivy League universities are on a debt binge

137. What Putin wants from Trump in Alaska

138. Aux barricades, boomers!

139. Xi Jinping’s weaponisation of rare-earth elements will ultimately backfire

140. Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain

141. Nerves are on a knife-edge ahead of the Trump-Putin summit

142. How scared should you be of “the China squeeze”?

143. How many pythons could you catch in ten days?

144. Race, power and money in South Africa

145. The looming military threat in the Arctic

146. Blighty newsletter: The Tories go cold on the gig economy

147. Palantir might be the most over-valued firm of all time

148. Britain is a global gaming superpower

149. Trump v DC

150. Why Donald Trump is wrong to take over the DC police

151. How AI could create the first one-person unicorn

152. The Russian-run town squatting on NATO territory

153. Cow’s milk, as well as Russian oil, fuels the US-India trade war

154. The War Room newsletter: Seven of the best books on the Pacific war

155. America’s drug regulator is in turmoil

156. America’s housing market is shuddering

157. Instead of sanctions, Donald Trump announces a summit with Russia

158. Donald Trump brokers a peace plan in the Caucasus

159. Still want to be a London cabbie?

160. OpenAI’s latest step towards advanced artificial intelligence

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162. Are nightmares bad for your health?

163. Pascal Soriot, the pharma titan tiring of Britain

164. Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil are more bark than bite

165. How to greet people at work

166. McDonald’s secret sauce—plus a pickle or two

167. Shanxi province is struggling to diversify away from coal

168. McKinsey and its peers need a strategic rethink

169. Will an astronomical anomaly challenge the idea of scientific revolutions?

170. Islamist parties are gaining ground in Malaysia

171. How climate change could spread malaria

172. Why it’s a pain to take a plane in Africa

173. Israeli sentiment on the war in Gaza is shifting

174. As the world focuses on Gaza, starvation also looms in Sudan

175. Panama brings lawfare to the canal ports saga

176. How is Donald Trump putting America first by bashing Brazil?

177. British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs

178. Is Britain’s Green Party too nice to emulate Reform UK?

179. What’s Britain good at?

180. Israel on trial: can the country police its own war crimes?

181. Fr Patrick Ryan, the “Devil’s Disciple”, improved IRA bomb-making

182. Albania’s new anti-corruption unit is taking down bigwigs

183. Europe’s top court nixes Italy’s plan to expel migrants, for now

184. Moldova’s election will test its resistance to Russia

185. Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore

186. Why the Germans are falling out of love with beer

187. The Elon Musk theory of pay

188. Uber is readying itself for the driverless age—again

189. South America is fast becoming the world’s hottest oil patch

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193. Wanted: a junior motion-graphics designer for our video department

194. Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life

195. An economist’s guide to big life decisions

196. Why Israel must hold itself to account

197. Buy now, pay later gets a bad rap. But it could be genuinely useful

198. How much of Gaza is left standing?

199. Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear

200. If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit

201. The long-term effects of hunger in Gaza

202. How loyalty programmes are keeping America’s airlines aloft

203. Fraudulent scientific papers are booming

204. Microphones can spot radar-evading hypersonic missiles

205. Astronomers cannot agree on how fast the universe is expanding

206. Stella Rimington battled communists, terrorists and literary critics

207. Starmer versus the burrito taxi

208. Nuclear nightmares are back

209. Alligator Alcatraz is an exercise in performative cruelty

210. Blighty newsletter: Are 100m Britons too many?

211. MAGA’s disenchantment with Israel

212. How to write laws of war for a wicked world

213. Why the laws of war are widely ignored

214. Six months after DeepSeek’s breakthrough, China speeds on with AI

215. America’s fertility crash reaches a new low

216. Democrats are likely to lose the redistricting war

217. Do consultants make good CEOs?

218. Narendra Modi and Donald Trump go head-to-head

219. Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers

220. On Ukraine’s front lines the kill zone is getting deeper

221. Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good

222. Deadheads hope to “make America grateful again”

223. America’s tariff avalanche catches Switzerland unawares

224. The War Room newsletter: How receiving aid became fatal in Gaza

225. The National Park Service is in disarray

226. How McKinsey lost its edge

227. AstraZeneca’s falling out with Britain

228. Savvy staff are moving from China’s nurseries to its care homes

229. Pakistan’s army chief is cozying up to Donald Trump

230. Nayib Bukele could now rule El Salvador for life

231. Trump will not let the world move on from tariffs

232. American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain

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234. Should you take collagen?

235. Donald Trump thinks he’s winning on trade, but America will lose

236. Parliament restores independence to Ukraine’s corruption-fighters

237. Álvaro Uribe, a former president of Colombia, is convicted

238. How to build a ship for interstellar travel

239. Scientists want to sequence all animals, fungi and plants on Earth

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243. Tom Lehrer found matter worth roasting everywhere he looked

244. Could AI tilt the outcome of elections?

245. Can pensioners rescue China’s economy?

246. Everyone loses in the rage of China’s delivery wars

247. Why did Thailand and Cambodia fight a senseless border war?

248. Ziad Rahbani held a mirror to Lebanese society

249. Famine in Gaza shows the failure of Israel’s strategy

250. Helen Zille wants to save South Africa, starting in Johannesburg

251. Can a home-grown telecoms firm connect South Sudan to the world?

252. Modular homes are helping LA’s wildfire survivors rebuild

253. Donald Trump’s redistricting ploy is politics at its most cynical

254. The German politicians who want to bar the AfD from government jobs

255. France’s top general says Russia could attack in five years

256. Why Italy’s next cultural capital looks like a disaster zone

257. Ever more Ukrainian women are joining the army

258. Britain presses on with its tilt to the Indo-Pacific

259. Does Nigel Farage’s plan for halving crime in Britain add up?

260. Lessons from the last nuclear power plant in Scotland

261. In Britain, same-sex marriages are more common for women than men

262. England’s women’s soccer team bring it home

263. America’s ailing health insurers

264. Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom?

265. Hello Kitty’s owner is purring contentedly

266. The world needs a better way to share genetic information

267. Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down

268. America is easing chip-export controls at exactly the wrong time

269. Uncovering the secret food trade that corrupts Iran’s neighbours

270. The climate needs a politics of the possible

271. The humbling of green Europe

272. The trade deal with America shows the limits of the EU’s power

273. Is Britain’s net-zero push to blame for its high energy prices?

274. America is slashing its climate research

275. Donald Trump’s war on renewables

276. Japan’s dealmaking machine revs up

277. The deeper reason for banking’s retreat

278. Why Indians suffer from a colonial mindset

279. South Asian women will be hurt by the trade war

280. Indian firms aim to gorge on weight-loss drugs

281. Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Brazil’s judiciary

282. The Federal Reserve sees a rare double dissent

283. What opponents of the EU-US trade deal get wrong

284. Starmer’s Palestine problem

285. What Donald Trump is teaching Harvard

286. How Trump’s U-turn on chips could unleash Chinese AI

287. Iran’s supreme leader is fading into the shadows

288. What pro wrestlers in Chicago say about America

289. In recognising Palestine, Britain and France won’t advance peace

290. Even the sight of an infection can trigger an immune response

291. The remarkable rise of “greenhushing”

292. How spy agencies are experimenting with the newest AI models

293. Can interceptor drones stop Russia’s terror bombing?

294. Panamanian farmers versus global shipping—and Donald Trump

295. Blighty: Why Corbyn’s comeback matters

296. A fresh retail-trading frenzy is reshaping financial markets

297. What the World Snail Racing Championships say about rural England

298. Can China save South Africa from Donald Trump?

299. South-East Asia makes an AI power grab

300. American governors split over how to handle Donald Trump