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Remote control: Rwandan proxies occupy Congo

2025-01-29

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Rebels linked to Rwanda have occupied the city of Goma (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/01/27/rwandas-reckless-plan-to-redraw-the-map-of-africa?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) in eastern Congo. Our correspondent reports on the horrific scenes there, and warns that Rwanda’s...

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How has China’s DeepSeek disrupted international markets?

2025-01-29

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China’s DeepSeek AI lab has disrupted stock prices. Several major American tech firms were left reeling after DeepSeek’s development of a cutting-edge language model, made for less than $6m. Our AI writer, Alex Hern, explains what happened

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Bot against America: a Chinese AI jolts markets

2025-01-28

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Silicon Valley firms have poured billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. But a new cheap AI model from DeepSeek (https://www.economist.com/business/2025/01/27/deepseek-sends-a-shockwave-through-markets?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), a Chinese start-up, has sent shockwaves through the...

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Gaza, stripped: Palestinians return to ruins

2025-01-27

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Though thousands of Palestinians are going back to northern Gaza, rebuilding their lives and homes will take years. Just a week into the ceasefire...

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In with a chancellor: dissecting Britain’s growth plan

2025-01-24

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Rachel Reeves has had a rocky start as chancellor of the exchequer. Our editor-in-chief meets her at Davos to dissect (https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/01/23/the-rachel-reeves-theory-of-growth?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) her plans for growth. Australia Day is coming up, but do not expect...

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Trailer: Scam Inc

2025-01-23

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A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It is already more lucrative than the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerful. The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong follows a trail that starts with the collapse of a bank in rural Kansas to uncover a global, underground scam economy built around human trafficking, corruption and money laundering. Can it be stopped? Coming soon. To...

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Right turn at a broken traffic light: Germany’s AfD

2025-01-23

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After the collapse of the governing “traffic light” coalition in December, the hard-right AfD has a renewed swagger (https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/16/how-the-afd-got-its-swagger-back?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). How long can other parties keep it from power? We speak with Syrian refugees...

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Why nations that fail women fail

2025-01-23

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Nations that subjugate women tend to be more unstable and violent. Here's why. Video supported by @mishcon_de_reya 00:00 - Why nations that fail women, fail 00:55 - South Sudan: deadly cattle raids 02:10 - How bride price is destabilising 03:45 - Child marriage 05:29 - Polygamous unions 06:57 - Male kinship group 08:25 - Misogyny and instability 10:07 - Women in leadership 11.04 - Liberia’s women peace movement 12:46 - Women in peace...

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A tax or attacks: how the Houthis fund themselves

2025-01-22

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The procedure is simple—genial, even. Contact Houthi rebels in Yemen and pay up, and your freight can pass into the Red Sea unmolested. We examine how this extortion affects world trade...

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Executive orders of magnitude: Trump’s day one

2025-01-21

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Donald Trump is back in office, this time with less pearl-clutching (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/01/19/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-trump-era?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) in Washington. We examine his inaugural address...

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Reunions and rubble: Gaza’s first moments of peace

2025-01-20

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Quiet skies, returned Israeli hostages, Gazans going back home: there is much to celebrate (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/01/19/the-start-of-a-fragile-truce-in-gaza-offers-relief-and-joy?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), for the moment. We examine the path to a more robust and...

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Billionaires boldly go: private space-treks

2025-01-17

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This week Blue Origin (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/01/01/can-jeff-bezos-match-elon-musk-in-space?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), Jeff Bezos’s space-exploration company, successfully launched a rocket into orbit on its first attempt. That marks a new frontier in the private...

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Peace by piece: a ceasefire in Gaza is close

2025-01-16

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After 15 months of fighting, a ceasefire in Gaza (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/01/15/after-15-months-of-hell-israel-and-hamas-sign-a-ceasefire-deal?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) may soon be agreed. What does the deal entail – and could it last? Our correspondent has uncovered...

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Arrest development: South Korea’s Yoon held

2025-01-15

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After dramatic scenes (https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/01/15/after-the-presidents-arrest-what-next-for-south-korea?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) in South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained on insurrection charges, stemming from his attempt to impose martial law in December. But, says...

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View to a killing: bond yields rise and rise

2025-01-14

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Though central banks have cut interest rates, uncertainty about the future has sent yields sky-high (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/01/12/why-global-bond-markets-are-convulsing?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). Our correspondent explains why expectations diverge from the economic...

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A run for cover: LA’s fires and insurance

2025-01-13

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Among the lessons emerging from California’s devastating fires is the idea that insurers cannot price risk (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/01/10/the-los-angeles-fires-will-be-extraordinarily-expensive?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) on past data: the climate-change future is already...

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Moving the post goals: Musk’s British-politics meddling

2025-01-10

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Elon Musk has taken an abiding interest in Britain, and a hard line against its prime minister. It reveals a division (https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/01/09/what-elon-musks-tweets-about-sex-abuse-reveal-about-british-politics?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) within British politics that may hold...

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Adaptitude: India and climate change

2025-01-09

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The world’s most populous country is at the front line of climate change. Our deputy editor explores the many ways it is adapting (https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/01/02/how-14bn-indians-are-adapting-to-climate-change?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)—because it must. Our series The World Ahead...

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Towards Russia with love: Austria’s political tilt

2025-01-08

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A once-fringe far-right party looks close to power—and serves as another sign of a broad and worrying pro-Russia trend (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/01/07/the-putinisation-of-central-europe?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) in central European politics. Meanwhile Jean-Marie Le Pen...

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It’s no longer Trudeau: Canada’s PM resigns

2025-01-07

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In the end Justin Trudeau could not resist the internal pressure. We ask why the liberal standard-bearer got pushed out (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/01/06/justin-trudeau-leaves-a-wrecked-party-and-divided-canada?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 what comes next. Ten years after...

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