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The rise of generative AI has put new urgency into ancient questions. What is consciousness, and can machines ever have it? We dive into the data that reveal a surge in sexually transmitted infections in Europe. And our obituaries editor considers the life of Mary de Rachewiltz, ...  عرض المزيد

From anti-corruption probes to a disgruntled ex-minister calling for elections to disrupted grain shipments, headaches are mounting for Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. China has until now coped with a patchy, pricey system for mental-health treatment. The government is no ...  عرض المزيد

Some of the territory’s most outspoken activists—from media mogul Jimmy Lai to “father of democracy” Martin Lee—have been sentenced. We look at <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/20/how-to-deal-with-china?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_sou ...

Unrest is only spreading and the authorities trying to quell it are looking increasingly desperate. We hear from <a href="https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/10/12/are-they-watching-our-homes-are-they-in-our-phones-a-diary-of-fear-in-tehran?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.p ...

A power-grab by the army’s commander, Min Aung Hlaing, is not turning out to be easy: the greatest protest movement in a generation is <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/02/10/myanmars-generals-face-growing-protests-against-their-coup?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&ut ...

There has been a slow strangling of freedom in the territory where pro-democracy activists have been convicted; an annual vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing in 1989 has been replaced by a food fair. A boom in startups suggests America is recovering ...  عرض المزيد