Ukraine’s robot army is fighting on its deadly frontline

2025-07-25

As the price of gold has risen so has the violence linked to mining it. Cartels in Peru and Colombia now make more money from gold than cocaine. In South Africa dozens of illegal miners died after they were sealed in an abandoned mine.

2025-07-21

A Trump-inspired populist party has rocked elections in Japan. Jason Palmer, co-host of The Intelligence podcast and Moeka Iida, our Tokyo-based reporter, discuss how the fringe hard-right Sanseito party made significant gains and why Japanese politics is entering an era of instability

00:00 – Japanese politics is entering an unstable era
01:45 – What was the big debate in this election?
02:39 – How did the ruling party lose its grip?
03:49 – How has social media changed politics in Japan?
04:56 – What’s going to happen to the ruling party?

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2025-07-11

Does America need permission to bomb another country? Allies used to insist presidents seek UN approval before military action. However as David Rennie, our geopolitics editor, argues, they are increasingly tolerating Donald Trump’s Lone-Ranger, vigilante methods

2025-07-04

The boss of buy-now, pay-later provider Klarna recently admitted he went too far using AI to cut customer service roles and was rehiring people. In an interview with our business affairs editor, Rachana Shanbhogue, he explains why he still expects AI to have a significant impact on jobs in the years ahead