Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

Today from London I'm your host Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Algeria looked to have a strong hand on its future when popular protests ousted an unpopular

president in 2019, but our correspondent says that problems have mounted once it became

clear that the new boss was very much like the old boss.

And chalk up another game that's sooped up software can win over human masters.

This time it's diplomacy.

It's a game that requires deals to be struck through chats with other players and they

didn't even know they were playing a computer.

But first...

America's midterm elections last month didn't provide the red wave of Republican congressional

winds that many predicted.

Democrats hung on to the Senate, just but one cliffhanger remained.

The race in Georgia between the Donald Trump-backed Republican candidate, Herschel Walker, and

the incumbent Democrat Reverend Raphael Warnock.

Neither got an outright majority of votes, so it went to a runoff.

And after another month of vigorous campaigning and campaign spending, Georgia's voters made

their choice yesterday.

This is my honor to honor the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy.

The people have spoken.

Mr. Warnock will head back to Capitol Hill, completing an outright Senate majority for

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