In seeking to shore up its power, the regime has also undermined it. If it survives this round of protests, more will follow https://t.co/9M8bQKE91G

Twitter’s shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $44bn offer https://t.co/tyopjTMQDx

The Kremlin-backed puppet governments in the four provinces claimed interim “results” in the sham votes, of between 87% and 99% in favour of being annexed by the invading country. These ludicrous numbers should fool no one https://t.co/XdlYQizRFX

North Korea has made an explicit statement of a “fail deadly” nuclear strategy. It echoes those of America and the Soviet Union during the cold war https://t.co/6dxcy3QYm1

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Growing reliance on the gulf for gas points to a fundamental reordering of the global energy-trading system https://t.co/E0oV2efHx5

The publication of “Silent Spring” 60 years ago led to a ban on DDT and other pesticides in America and elsewhere https://t.co/snVaAwx2HZ

Europe must calmly accept Italy’s democratic decision to elect Giorgia Meloni and help her succeed, while privately warning her how damaging to both Italy and the EU a falling ­out would be https://t.co/EDQMh5b4ky

Industry leaders are skeptical of the appointment of Jacob Rees-­Mogg as business secretary. “I could think of a worse choice, but you’d have to give me an hour,” says the chairman of one large company https://t.co/ZbRiqhxwbp

Aside from the Brothers of Italy’s chief sister Giorgia Meloni, the main winner was populism https://t.co/jCXgoMvxTI

Xi Jinping, plausibly the most powerful man in the world, rarely gives interviews or makes public statements. Those closest to him are sworn to secrecy. But these books help to figure him out https://t.co/KDS2KQdAPJ

The brain is often described as the most complex structure in the known universe. But with novel approaches to the science and innovative treatments, there is new energy and enthusiasm in the sector https://t.co/4eekCtW6VI

The Economist spoke to several men in St Petersburg about the prospect of conscription. “We have fallen into hell—that’s how I see it,” says one https://t.co/ypjEGHFagD

Translating royal names is a relic of European history https://t.co/WfOQgayrkL

When markets perform worse than anyone had previously expected, problems emerge and policymakers face a menu of bad options https://t.co/usqv98JWGH

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An energy crisis and fresh alliances are making the Gulf more powerful, more volatile—and impossible for the world to ignore https://t.co/vFoLCFuLDz https://t.co/R5oEAcmX9F

Announcing a national mobilisation is very unusual. The Kremlin last did it when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 https://t.co/V8e8YzLgyE

The Economist’s environment editor @catBrahic was the only journalist allowed on a convoy that went to assess the risk that rising waters in Peru’s Lake Palcacocha pose to the town of Huaraz. Listen to her journey on this week’s “Money Talks” podcast https://t.co/h4mZGXiU4W

With so many biotechs digging deep where big pharma has feared to tread, progress by some of them is inevitable https://t.co/IKgTmvSafp