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The Economist May 29

The Uber of the underworld

Amateur crooks are using plug-and-play hacking kits

The Economist May 29

The War Room newsletter: Explore our “Archive 1945” project

The Economist May 27

Donald Trump steals Xi Jinping’s favourite foreign policy

China blames US interventions for Middle East turmoil. “Snap!” says Mr Trump

The Economist May 22

Can China jam your GPS?

Its huge investment in the rival BeiDou system may give it an edge

The Economist May 21

Star wars returns

Donald Trump’s quest for orbital dominance

The Economist May 20

How to fight the next pandemic, without America

The world scrambles to save global health policy from Donald Trump

EP External Relations May 19

Press release - MEPs strike deal with Council on financial aid for Egypt

On Monday night, Parliament and Council negotiators reached an agreement on a financial aid package for Egypt worth up to €4 billion in loans.Committee on...

The Economist May 19

The War Room newsletter: Shadow games in the Baltic

The Economist May 15

Fact-checkers forecast which dodgy claims will do most damage

How to distinguish between weapons-grade disinformation and everyday codswallop

The Economist May 15

China and Russia are deploying powerful new weapons: ideas

The West is retreating from the battle of the narrative

The Economist May 13

Why Donald Trump is a globalist

The mystery of an America First president fascinated by foreigners’ disputes

BBC Science May 10

Soviet-era spacecraft 'likely' to have re-entered Earth's atmosphere

The spacecraft, which launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus, circled Earth for over five decades.

The Economist May 5

The War Room newsletter: Six must-read books on the second world war

The Economist May 1

The UN could run out of cash within months

America and China are pushing it to the brink of financial collapse

The Economist Apr 29

Donald Trump picks the wrong trade fight with China

America will lose an economic-pain war

The Economist Apr 25

A Trump executive order will unleash a global deep-sea mining boom

It will galvanise international co-operation over writing rules for the ocean bed

The Economist Apr 24

Why some countries are once again embracing cluster bombs

The once-banned weapons are making a comeback to deter Russia

The Economist Apr 22

The ugly task of Putin-proofing your border

Russia’s European neighbours hate landmines. They are installing them anyway

The Economist Apr 22

Trump’s red-hot war on terror

The number of strikes against jihadists is rising. Is it 2001 all over again?

The Economist Apr 21

The coming struggle to choose the next pope

A conclave of 135 cardinals may pick someone very different from Francis

BBC Science Apr 17

The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans

Could discoveries of alien life ever change the human psyche in how we view ourselves and each other?

The Economist Apr 16

Plastics are greener than they seem

Even if the world needs to become much better at managing their waste

The Economist Apr 15

Xi Jinping’s Trump-sized puzzle

For all its strength and swagger, China is struggling to handle an impulsive America

The Economist Apr 14

The War Room newsletter: Is American diplomacy all bark, no bite?