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- China’s rare earth controls
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- The Crown vs. Greenpeace: who owns the seabed?
October 15th
- Who are the new-wave hackers bringing the world to a halt?
October 14th
- French finances: what’s behind country’s debt problem?
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- The Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners being released
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- The quest to defy ageing
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- How does the Nobel Peace Prize work?
October 9th
- Pope Leo wants to change the Vatican’s murky finances
- Icarus programme – the ‘internet of animals’
October 8th
- Youth revolts rattle Morocco as calls against corruption grow louder
- The end of ‘golden ticket’ asylum rights
October 7th
- Five key questions about the Gaza peace deal
October 6th
- Syria’s strange post-Assad election
October 3rd
- What are stablecoins, and why is the government so interested in them?
- Child trust funds explained as over £1.5 million remains unclaimed
October 2nd
- How digital ID cards work around the world
October 1st
- The new Stratus Covid strain – and why it’s on the rise

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