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  1. The US sees the clouds of a financial crisis gathering on the horizon

  2. Outcry in Morocco after Netanyahu presents map of kingdom without Western Sahara on French TV

  3. Paris's 'Nuit Blanche': Ten things to do in and around the city during the night-time arts festival

  4. French schools see anti-Semitism and racism expressed increasingly earlier: 'There are no longer any taboos'

  5. ChatGPT: 'The Achilles heel of artificial intelligence is its energy consumption'

  6. France's bad grade from Standard & Poor's shakes its economic credibility

  7. Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's likely feminist-in-chief

  8. Biden's Gaza plan, deemed 'positive' by Hamas, forces Netanyahu to face his contradictions

  9. Japan: $300 mn bitcoin lost in 'leak'