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The US in Brief: Republicans grumble over Iran

China is winning the AI talent race

How long will Israel stay in Lebanon?

The end of the world’s longest-running Maoist insurgency

Algorithm and blues: a watershed social-media verdict

Donald Trump says he is close to a deal with Iran

Advantage Iran

The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire

Europe should think twice before weakening its merger rules

The case against energy bail-outs

Christine Lagarde’s sober tone on the Gulf war energy shock

The human toll of the Iran war, in charts and maps

America’s pro-Israel lobby is facing a backlash

What staff surveys are really telling you

Meta and Google face a reckoning over social-media addiction

NASA’s Moon-base plans mark a rethinking of its future

How much will America’s oilmen benefit from the Iran war?

Big food’s troubles go from bad to worse

Amazon’s unprecedented gamble on AI redemption might just work

How AI is really being used in war

Europe’s populist right should be outvoted rather than ostracised

The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran

Mexico must unleash its private sector

New research uncovers more of the story of man’s best friend

Early French winemakers had surprisingly sophisticated techniques

Young people all over the world are clicking with mahjong

The US in Brief: Painting Mar-a-Lago blue

On goal difference: are America and Israel diverging on Iran?

The world’s most unaffordable housing is not where you think

The rapid recharge revolution

Autonomous swarms are the future of drone warfare

Markets are gripped by an alarming cognitive dissonance

China’s government both drives and constrains the rise of AI

Blighty newsletter: Economic inactivity has fallen. Let’s celebrate

What a battle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would look like

China’s balancing act in the Middle East

Europe’s choice: Grow, or become a vassal