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Who controls the West Bank?

2025-02-27

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More than 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the occupied West Bank in the last month because of Israel’s latest operation. It’s reignited a long-standing question about the Palestinian territory: who controls the West Bank?

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Left, right and centre: Germany’s election

2025-02-24

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Instead of needing three parties to cobble together a majority, the country’s two traditional main ones have the numbers (https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/23/friedrich-merz-wins-germanys-election-but-forming-a-coalition-will-be-hard?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners). What to expect once the talks...

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Is Trump playing the “madman”?

2025-02-23

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Donald Trump seems to relish causing chaos. But what if there’s a method to the madness? Adam O’Neal, our Washington Correspondent, explains the “madman theory”  #donaldtrump #uspolitics #madman #madmantheory #nixon #diplomacy

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How well is LA recovering from the wildfires?

2025-02-22

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Following LA's wildfires in January, workers have spent weeks clearing the debris and removing hazardous waste. Our West Coast correspondent, Aryn Braun, has been following their progress

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What does Putin really want?

2025-02-21

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Three years after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it is still not clear what “winning” his war really means. As talks with the Trump administration begin our Russia editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, explains what Putin really wants #ukrainewar #vladimirputin #geopolitics #war #warinukraine #zelensky

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Friends (the one with estrangement): Europe without the US

2025-02-21

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Europe must move boldly (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/20/how-europe-must-respond-as-trump-and-putin-smash-the-post-war-order?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) as the American-led world order shatters beneath it; we explain how. Many people view the freedom to work from home as a perk. Some...

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Young, gifted and black: Africa’s next generation

2025-02-20

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Africa’s young are educated, ambitious side-hustlers. But they are hampered by their economies and dispirited by their politicians. How to harness their vast potential? America’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is, in a real-world accounting...

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How more women can become CEOs

2025-02-20

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Only around 10% of Britain’s and America’s biggest companies have female CEOs. Addressing the "motherhood penalty" and making recruitment processes uniform are two ways to redress this imbalance. Video supported by @mishcon_de_reya 00:00 - Will CEO gender parity happen? 00:50 - Vodafone CEO, Margherita Della Valle 01:51 - Women CEOs: why so few? 02.11 - Motherhood penalty 03:31 - How Nordic countries get it right 04:20 - Unconscious...

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Colour visions: a German-election lookahead

2025-02-19

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The possibilities for an inevitable coalition government are a head-spinning colour wheel of party logos. We look at the most likely outcomes (https://www.economist.com/interactive/2025-german-election-polls-prediction-forecast?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners), and the smaller parties that may well play...

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AI bosses on what keeps them up at night

2025-02-18

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Google DeepMind and Anthropic founders, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei, are two of the world's foremost leaders in artificial intelligence. Our editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, sat down with them to discuss AI safety, timelines for artificial general intelligence and whether they fear becoming the Oppenheimers of our time, in a conversation for Visionaries Club. How AI will divide the best from the rest: https://econ.st/3X8yVhv After...

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AI bosses share their worries about the burden of leadership #ai #artificialintelligence #google

2025-02-18

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Google DeepMind and Anthropic founders, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei are profoundly worried about how AGI will change the world. Our editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, asks whether they could become the Oppenheimers of our time, in a conversation for Visionaries Club

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Get your Strait facts: China’s quiet Taiwan push

2025-02-18

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We investigate China’s under-the-radar push (https://www.economist.com/international/2025/02/09/chinas-stunning-new-campaign-to-turn-the-world-against-taiwan?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) to get other countries to change their official language on Taiwan’s independence. Would it make a difference in a...

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Must Ensure ‘Durable Peace’ In Ukraine: Berlin | Arab Summit On Gaza Postponed To Friday | Headlines

2025-02-17

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Top headlines of the hour: - Must Ensure 'Durable Peace' In Ukraine: Berlin - Top EU Team To Visit Kyiv For War Anniversary - IDF Strike In Lebanon Kills Hamas Commander - Arab Summit On Gaza Postponed To Friday #berlin #europeanunion #headlines

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Munich insecurity conference: a re-ordering begins

2025-02-17

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Backing away from European security guarantees and seeking mineral rights in Ukraine as recompense for military aid: at the Munich Security Conference the Trump administration made its convention-trashing, transactional nature clear...

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Russia-US Officials To Meet In Riyadh | ‘Israel Can’t To A Thing Against Iran’ | WION Headlines

2025-02-17

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Top headlines of the hour: - Russia-US Officials To Meet In Riyadh - 'Israel Can't To A Thing Against Iran' - Israel Strikes Lebanon: 1 Killed - New Delhi CM To Take Oath On Feb 20 - Massive Stir Against Far-Right In Berlin #russiaukrainewar #israel #iran

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Nairobi Mother Arrested For Allegedly killing 4 Year Old Son Over Soiling Incident | WION Shorts

2025-02-17

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A Nairobi lady is being held in connection with the murder of her four-year-old son after he soiled himself in a perplexing case. According to the police, on December 9, 2024, Melvin Owuor and an unidentified acquaintance brought the child's body to the morgue at Mama Lucy Hospital, where Ms. Owuor stated her kid had passed away while he was asleep.

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Can Europe defend itself without America?

2025-02-16

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Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, explains why Donald Trump risks overturning the very basis of the NATO alliance’s mutual defence clause #uspolitics #geopolitics #trump #defence #nato #europe

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Are lab-grown diamonds too successful?

2025-02-14

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Lab-grown diamonds have become increasingly popular in recent years but, with prices now falling, have they started to become too successful for their own good?

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Love match: Modi-Trump’s tariffs tussle

2025-02-14

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The American president and Indian prime minister have long been friends. But when the two met at the White House yesterday, they had many thorny issues (https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/02/11/is-maga-great-for-india?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) to discuss, including trade and immigration. Why the...

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Zelensky fears being sidelined by Trump

2025-02-13

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On February 12th, President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, without co-ordinating the details beforehand with Ukraine, and announced that negotiations to end the war would start “immediately”. It was exactly the sort of unilateral American move that, just hours earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky warned against in this interview with The Economist. “If Russia is left alone with America, Putin with Trump, or their teams,...

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