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What is a carry trade?
Borrowing cheaply to buy high-yielding assets is popular, but risky
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The significance of liquid water on Mars
There could be an ocean’s worth deep underground
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Why Russian troops are attacking on motorbikes
New conditions give rise to new tactics
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What is “two-tier” policing?
The conspiratorial belief has spread online, fuelling disorder in Britain
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Would legal doping change the Olympics?
The impact would be smaller—and worse—than proponents of drug-taking claim
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Do vice-presidential picks matter?
If they have any effect on an election’s result, it is at the margins
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What led to the bitter controversy over an Olympics boxing match?
A mighty punch by an Algerian boxer has revived a politically charged dispute
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Is this the end of Project 2025, the plan that riled Donald Trump?
The right-wing blueprint for governing has taken centre-stage in America’s presidential campaign
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Who should control Western Sahara?
France becomes the latest country to back Morocco’s claim
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Who are the Druze, the victims of a deadly strike on Israel?
The religious minority has often been caught up in regional crossfire in the Middle East
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Myanmar’s rapidly changing civil war, in maps and charts
Ethnic militias and pro-democracy groups are scoring victories against the governing junta
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Who will be Kamala Harris’s running-mate?
She is reportedly down to six candidates