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Over a billion have voted in 2024: has democracy won?
Half the world has had elections so far this year
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A new “quartet of chaos” threatens America
The rulers of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are growing worryingly close
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A UN vote on Palestine underlines America’s weakening clout
Russia and China are riding a surge of support for the Palestinians since the Gaza war started
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Sport is getting hotter, harder and deadlier
As players vomit and boil, even John McEnroe reckons “it is not humane”
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How encrypted messaging apps conquered the world
And why governments want to wrest back control
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The poisonous global politics of water
Polarisation makes it harder to adapt to climate change
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Indian tourists are conquering the world
A booming middle class, budget flights and Bollywood
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Can Donald Trump’s Iron Dome plan keep America safe?
In a dangerous world, cutting-edge missile defence is all the rage
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Why the war on childhood obesity is failing
Sugar taxes and obesity drugs will not be enough
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Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good
The games will test the success of new solutions to old bugbears
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Could America fight its enemies without breaking the law?
The speed and intensity of prospective conflicts could test the laws of war
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How China and Russia could hobble the internet
The undersea cables that connect the world are becoming military targets
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Trump and other populists will haunt NATO’s 75th birthday party
Threats to Western alliances lie both within and without the club
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The rise of the truly cruel summer
Deadly heat is increasingly the norm, not an exception to it
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Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
Will rich countries welcome them the way they did Chinese students?
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The new front in China’s cyber campaign against America
Big powers are preparing for wartime sabotage
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Is your rent ever going to fall?
Too often politicians tout awful solutions for helping tenants
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Iran’s new leaders stand at a nuclear precipice
The world’s atomic watchdog fears a terrifying regional arms race
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Taiwan’s new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
But China’s bullying of Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines risks an explosion
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The world’s rules-based order is cracking
Human-rights lawyers are trying to save laws meant to tame violent rulers