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The blazes in North America have claimed 10-80 times as many lives as those in Europe so far

Bordeaux is on alert, and worse is yet to come

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, we celebrate 40 years of the Big Mac index

He is wisely overhauling the central bank. But winning elections remains paramount

Also on the daily podcast: China’s growing export market for AI and a tribute to Wally Funk

The Hong Kong bookseller died on July 2nd, aged 70

Dave Portnoy has created a loyal audience by refusing to please everyone

A summer stroll along Hadrian’s Wall is also a rendezvous with history

A new book tells the story of an atrocity in North Carolina in 1898 and its long aftermath

Annie Jacobsen imagines the repercussions of a leak from a Russian laboratory

Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?

As tensions flare in the Gulf, triple digits could return in a flash

A friend to procrastinators, an enemy to prattlers, a necessity for managers

Its boss has ambitious plans for the future

A British retail magnate tries to go upmarket

Blame technology, inflation and customers’ shifting habits

A case of national-security theatre

Its country’s economy depends on it

Social-media-savvy politicians are drawing them in

It has stepped up its abuse of Australia, the Philippines and Japan

And how Mark Carney’s immigration curbs threaten the model

Donald Trump’s capriciousness has pushed Canada’s military spending towards Europe

Shunned after the genocide, they have become a status symbol

By threatening shipping, the Yemeni rebels hope to wring concessions from the kingdom

But a new chief prosecutor will not end its troubles

Anger at Donald Trump and Israel have given the left an opening

Lessons from a fight over a bridge between America and Canada

The man with “no cards” plays a deft hand

Missile hits on ports near Odessa could stop the export of a bumper harvest

A billionaire diplomat’s floating statecraft

An end-run around a court ban gives Recep Tayyip Erdogan a strong challenger

What happens when the alternative becomes the mainstream?

Germany knew Abdul Ballout was dangerous. It let him go anyway