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• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
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• 'Republicans for Harris' want conservatives to vote Democrat in 2024 to topple Trump
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• California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters, but Silicon Valley warns it will cause one
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• Israeli strikes on Beirut and Tehran could intensify a regional war
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• Greece takes stock of wildfires that raged through Athens suburbs
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• Chile's crisis is not over yet
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• The rise of the hard right alarms German business leaders
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• What Javier Milei could learn from Peru's economic successes
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• To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it
• Britain's justice system has responded forcefully to the riots
• The Decline of America's Public Pools
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