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How Labubu dolls became China’s first contemporary cultural export. 

Test yourself on the week of Oct. 18: Japan swears in its first female prime minister, Russia conducts military drills, and a museum heist stuns France.

Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller is terrifying—but falls short of true provocation.

A new documentary argues Nixon’s secretary of state learned the wrong lessons from his experiences with Nazi Germany.

By cutting U.S. support for labor rights around the globe, Washington is hurting workers at home and abroad.

Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” interrogates how the have-nots get by in a climate catastrophe.

Once-thriving crops are poorly adapting to new temperatures.

The conservative president-elect has an economic crisis in his inbox.

China’s complex new rules take on the entire world at once—and give Trump an opportunity.

Going back to first principles has until recently spooked many diplomats.

The Trump administration is working to uphold the fragile Gaza cease-fire.

Sweeping sanctions packages aim to curb funding for Moscow’s war effort.

The threat to Moscow’s oil earnings is huge. But will it be enough?

Islamabad has pulled off repeated coups—but can they last?

Experts believe the operation is about regime change in Venezuela.