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• July 1 2025
  Is Europe prepared for war?

  With US support for transatlantic security faltering, Nato nations are fortifying the eastern frontier with Russia

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• April 28 2025
  Why Trump can’t build iPhones in the US

  The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America. The components that power it show why that is highly impractical

  
• April 13 2025
  News in-depthTrump tariffs

  The Chinese goods Americans most rely on, from microwaves to Barbies

  Donald Trump’s tariffs will hit millions of video game consoles, electric fans and toys shipped to the US from China

  
• April 9 2025
  How China’s record trade surplus helped spark Trump’s tariff war

  Beijing’s domination of global trade has led to a schism between the world’s two largest economies — and left many others worried about their industries

  
• March 10 2025
  Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics

  A series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure

  
• February 12 2025
  Can Trump make bitcoin useful?

  The US president is embracing the cryptocurrency, exciting enthusiasts and concerning sceptics

  
• January 23 2025
  Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric?

  By 2030 the UK government wants 80 per cent of new cars to be EVs. These are the changes needed to accelerate the transition

  
• December 22 2024
  Valencia

  Valencia floods: the scandal of a disaster foretold

  Political leaders, on the day and over the decades, failed to heed warnings — or issue them as the waters surged

  
• December 16 2024
  How China is setting up shop in America’s backyard

  An increasingly close trade relationship is putting Mexico in the spotlight

  
• November 20 2024
  Are the robots finally coming?

  Advances in physical AI means machines are learning skills previously thought impossible

  
• October 15 2024
  The Budget Game: Can you run the UK economy?

  Step into the chancellor’s shoes and devise your fiscal plan

  
• October 9 2024
  Inside one family’s year-long mission to survive the Israel-Hamas war

  More than 2mn people live in Gaza. Now almost all of them are seeking refuge

  
• September 25 2024
  Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign?

  Compete for the White House against other readers in the Election Game

  
• August 24 2024
  Ten days that turned the tables on Russia

  How Ukraine pulled off a spectacular counterpunch against Moscow by invading its invader

  
• August 15 2024
  Visual investigation

  The European boats fishing under a veil of secrecy

  EU vessels are registering with African fleets and exploiting local fishing laws

  
• July 30 2024
  Inside the race to make the world’s fastest running shoes

  CT scans reveal the technology propelling record-breaking long-distance runners

  
• July 25 2024
  Who wants to work in Canary Wharf?

  A host of buildings will require renovations to attract new tenants as major occupants depart

  
• July 24 2024
  How private equity tangled banks in debt

  Complex layers of leverage could pose a threat to the global economy

  
• May 19 2024
  The battlegrounds that could decide a US-China war over Taiwan

  Five key military contests are likely to determine the outcome of a conflict

  
• May 2 2024
  How Ukraine broke Russia’s grip in the Black Sea

  Attacks on Moscow’s warships have helped to establish an export corridor that could boost Kyiv’s war effort

  
• April 10 2024
  Borderlands

  The migrant highway that could sway the US election

  The Darién Gap has become a key migration route for people heading towards the US

  
• April 9 2024
  Tonnes of food is stuck on Gaza’s border while the enclave nears famine

  An almost stationary line of trucks depicts the daily struggle to feed Gaza

  
• March 1 2024
  Visual investigation

  Inside the brazen Arctic trip supplying Putin’s flagship energy scheme

  A former Hollywood financier is navigating sea ice and sanctions to help keep Russia’s LNG hopes alive

  
• February 28 2024
  Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing

  After coming up against the limits of physics, scientists are rethinking chip architecture like never before

  
• February 7 2024
  Visual investigation

  Russia’s sham rebuild of one Ukrainian city

  Residents of Mariupol live in half-built homes while Russian companies profit from contracts worth millions