When it goes dark: Facebook’s terrible week

When it goes dark: Facebook’s terrible week

Yesterday’s global outage is not even the worst of it: today’s congressional testimony will examine a whistleblower’s allegations that the company knows its products cause widespread harm. The modern food-industrial complex is great for eaters but appalling for the planet; we examine technological fixes, and whether consumers will bite. And how Afghanistan's embassies abroad are—or aren’t—dealing with the Taliban.

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Modi behaviour: will India retaliate against Pakistan?

Modi behaviour: will India retaliate against Pakistan?

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Carney score: last days of Canada’s campaign

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Fed man walking? Trump v Powell

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Division multiplication: the UAE’s foreign meddling

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Cardinals in: choosing the next pope

Cardinals in: choosing the next pope

As the cardinals of the coming conclave prepare, our correspondent considers what will guide them. Which of the church’s challenges will the next pope be elected to address? In Mexico the discovery of...

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A man of the people: Pope Francis has died

A man of the people: Pope Francis has died

He shunned fancy vestments and paid surprise visits to prisons and hospitals: our obituaries editor reflects on the life of a reform-minded pontiff who preferred to be among his flock. High-protein sn...

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Gene genies: CRISPR’s critical moment

Gene genies: CRISPR’s critical moment

It is a Nobel-winning idea with untold promise in health care, agriculture and more. We examine what must change in order to capture those benefits. Asia’s love affair with gold has long been chalked ...

18 Apr 202524min

Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions

Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions

President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. President Donald Trump’s is not. That dynamic is complicating their gargantuan standoff. Spain ends up wit...

17 Apr 202524min

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