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  • Saturday, 23 May, 2026
    Football
    FT Magazine. How the smallest country to qualify for a World Cup did it

    The Caribbean island of Curaçao could hardly afford travel to games when it first fielded a national team in 2010. Next month, it’s off to America

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  • Saturday, 23 May, 2026
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    Mexico’s World Cup haunted by 130,000 ‘disappeared’ people

    Families accuse authorities of minimising the crisis while spending heavily on football showpiece

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  • Friday, 22 May, 2026
    Bolivia
    Bolivia rocked by protests as fuel shortages and rising costs bite

    Government and armed forces say they will open ‘humanitarian corridors’ to deliver necessities through roadblocks

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  • Friday, 22 May, 2026
    Personal Finance
    If you think you understand bonds, you don’t

    They’re too complex for me too — but here are five common traps to avoid

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  • Friday, 22 May, 2026
    Europe Express
    Why the EU is braced for a ‘dramatically’ worse economic outlook

    Also in this newsletter: Europe’s Iris² project should get a slice of satellite frequencies

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  • Thursday, 21 May, 2026
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    Alphaville. Kraken El Niño is coming for the crops

    Taking a rain check

  • Thursday, 21 May, 2026
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    US quantum investment includes groups tied to Trump administration

    Beneficiaries of $2bn push include start-up backed by firm linked to Trump family and another taken public by Pentagon official

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    Retail investors turn to ‘options income’ ETFs in search for yield

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    US charges Cuba’s former president Raúl Castro with murder

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    Many Fed officials called for central bank to drop rate-cut signal in April

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    The Arctic’s vanishing caribou

    While Canadians argue about who is to blame, herd numbers continue to fall

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    Europe Express
    Europe grasps new reality with Putin envoy and US military replacement

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  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2026
    Style
    Ask a stylist: What are the best smart summer hats?

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  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2026
    US midterm elections 2026
    Trump’s ‘worst’ Republican critic loses most expensive House primary ever

    Maverick Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie defeated by challenger backed by president

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  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2026
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    Alphaville. Fourth time’s the charm for stock bears?

    What happens after three bumper years of stock returns

  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2026
    US economy
    Alphaville. The US is still being paid to borrow — but only just

    Dark matter revisited

  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2026
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    Lloyds targets data centre boom with US expansion

    Rising profits encourage UK banks to pursue international growth

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  • Monday, 18 May, 2026
    Major League Baseball
    Baseball is learning to live with shorter attention spans

    New rules have made games faster and more exciting

    Patti Waldmeir
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  • Monday, 18 May, 2026
    Isis
    US strikes kill ‘more than 20’ Isis militants in Nigeria

    Attack comes shortly after killing of group’s second-in-command as Washington steps up West Africa military action

    File picture of Nigerian soldiers in camouflage uniforms and helmets ride in pick-up trucks during training at the MNJTF base in Monguno.
  • Monday, 18 May, 2026
    US-China relations
    The battle the US is winning against China  

    It is a stunted financial power, leaving the US free to rule global markets

    Ruchir Sharma
    Stacks of Chinese one-hundred yuan banknotes featuring an image of Mao Zedong
  • Monday, 18 May, 2026
    Executive education
    Leaders’ judgment matters more than ever in the age of AI

    A professor explores how to hone abilities too rarely nurtured in business schools

    Andrew Likierman
    A bronze sculpture of a seated man resting his chin on one hand in a pose of deep thought.
  • Sunday, 17 May, 2026
    US politics & policy
    In America, wealth taxes mean wealth flight

    California’s intended targets, whether individuals or companies, are leaving for friendlier regimes

    Michael Moritz
    Aerial view of Palo Alto city centre in California
  • Sunday, 17 May, 2026
    Hantavirus
    Patagonia shares lessons on what it learned from hantavirus

    Region where passengers may have caught rat-borne virus tightened controls after 2018 outbreak in Argentina

    Two tourists pose with arms outstretched on rocks by Epuyen lake as another person takes their photo, with mountains in the background.
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