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Trump can't sell the Abraham Accords on a Middle East that has lost trust in the US

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The war in Iran – again – points to the strategic shortcomings of assassination as policy of foreign affairs

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Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference

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The Sahel region is less secure than ever: foreign forces just add to the cycle of violence

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Is Beijing the world's 'living room'? China is enjoying the global stage, but there are limits to its influence

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World's largest study of child sexual abuse perpetrators reveals why they abuse

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Pope Leo warns of AI's risks to humanity in his first encyclical

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Game changers: how a rainy week led a frustrated Don Bradman to reinvent cricket

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Game changers: how soccer's mega-money era was sparked by a little-known Belgian athlete

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The Backrooms: how a teenager's creepy YouTube series became the year's most anticipated horror

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Why has the US indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro?

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Rice feeds billions of people – but its role in fueling climate change is growing

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Playing host to Putin and Trump, China sends a message – it's now in the driver's seat

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Taunting and degrading civilians in armed conflict is a clear violation of international law

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When AI giants go public, will ordinary investors know if they are along for the ride?

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San Diego mosque attack: racist interpretations of European history are inspiring extremists

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Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain

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Indie sleaze: a brief fashion history, from messy rebellion to mainstream revival

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Nearly everything we use online is owned by big tech. There's a better way forward

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Elon Musk sued OpenAI and lost. But the core question of the case remains unanswered

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129,000 years of crocodiles: what we know about Australasia's ancient apex predators

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A football World Cup is a global cultural exchange. How will that work in Trump's America?

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NATO would survive a US withdrawal. But what kind of alliance would it become?

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From 'French leave' to 'Irish goodbyes': why you may be right to exit a party without saying goodbye

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Museums have always been entangled with European imperialism. Will the world's first 'AI art' museum be any different?

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Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer's Iliad?

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What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

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Illegal gold mining causes surges in malaria in the Amazon, and the association is far worse than we suspected

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Conspiracy theories: do 300,000 Kiwis really believe Canada is building an army of mutant super-raccoons?

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What is 'cycle syncing', and how might it affect menstruation? -- Emmalee Ford, University of Sydney

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Hantavirus is very different to COVID. Here's why the 'Andes virus' won't cause the next pandemic -- Rhys Parry, The University of Queensland

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Hantavirus, COVID, norovirus, legionnaires': why are cruise ships so prone to disease outbreaks? -- Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick

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How scientists changed their view of insomnia -- Iuliana Hartescu, Loughborough University

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De-extinction company says it's made an artificial egg – if true, it could help save living species

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Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world's 'digital chokepoints' have never been more vulnerable

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If AI can translate instantly, why learn another language?

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Meta's new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids' social media accounts. Will they work?

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China's ability to weather Trump's trade war was two decades in the making -- Gemma Ware, The Conversation

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook resigns after 15 years. What's next for the tech giant? -- Rajat Roy, Bond University

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Musk's SpaceX is shaping up as the biggest IPO on record. It's also bending the rules to do so

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What a US military base lost under Greenland's ice sheet reveals about the island's real strategic importance

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The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

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Three scientists speak about what it's like to have research funding cut by the Trump administration

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Our Large Hadron Collider results hint at undiscovered physics -- William Barter, University of Edinburgh and Mark Smith, Imperial College London

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