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John McDermott, our chief Africa correspondent, on what a murky vote says about democracy across the continent

But investors aren’t panicking yet

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Lies, damned lies and stock markets

The growing shortage is causing panic in Ukraine and elsewhere

Also on the daily podcast: why Japan has so few unicorns and how to stop procrastinating

Why the South American country dominates the sport

A state wounded by extremism tries to guard against it

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Our podcast on science and technology. Researchers hope that orexin therapies could unlock a new class of psychiatric treatments

A rewiring of global manufacturing is under way

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, how the city became a haven for smuggled artefacts

New data show the peril and promise of the technology

Out of interceptors, Ukraine is no longer winning the aerial war

Bottles from Skane, the “Nordic Tuscany”, beat all comers in a blind tasting

High tariffs on Chinese goods have had predictable effects

The “ice-age” generation has been cursed several times over

Matthew Holehouse, our public policy editor, asks whether words matter as much as deeds in Westminster

As stocks rise ever higher, yields have been climbing ominously

A trial over the Atlantic aims to show how

Make it stick

The sound of giant tractors may replace dynamite

Stones in dinosaur stomachs may help understanding of avian evolution

Also on the daily podcast: the contradictions of India’s civil codes and our columnist responds to big-name correspondence

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Democratic candidates are outraising their rivals

Washington continues to move more slowly than hackers

Both his supporters and detractors dehumanised the tragic fabulist

Developers are exaggerating their plans, just as politicians are overstating their opposition

Two new books ponder whether the technology will be tame or savage

Daron Acemoglu is revered. Why?

They are operating with the tacit support of Israel’s government

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Local chocolatiers are raising the bar

It has many questions to answer

Even court orders to protect them are ignored

Back then, leaders delivered and opportunity beckoned–or so the story goes

Steve Coll, our senior editor, asks what the anniversary means in Kabul and Washington

America’s president derails military exercises with South Korea

This time won’t be different—except that institutions will be less well placed to limit the damage, reckons Martin Gruenberg

Also on the daily podcast: another step toward lab-made life and why travel agents still thrive in an age of AI

Freedom of navigation is worth preserving

Some workers are going back to the farm

But a new superintelligence may be coming, and it would upend humanity’s hierarchy of moral concern, thinks Susan Schneider

Some experts believe computers will need biological aspects to become self-aware

Scientists are trying to figure out whether algorithms could one day wake up and feel

Even if they don’t, they might be treated as such—to humanity’s great cost

Outside the snobbish capital, American line-dancing is huge

Despite promises of renewal, it is still an authoritarian state