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Police investigate son of prime suspect in New Mexico killings of Muslim men

Home sales declined by 5.3 per cent in July, back to pre-COVID levels

Kaiser Permanente mental health workers on strike

Remembering some of Canada’s greatest baseball players

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Community health centers’ big profits raise questions about federal oversight

France eliminates Canada at U-20 Women’s World Cup

China announces new military drills near Taiwan as U.S. delegation visits Taipei

Slowing inflation does not mean you get your spending power back

Japan’s Baba earns victory over Canada’s Chun to claim U.S. Women’s Amateur title

8 wounded in Jerusalem shooting that U.S. condemns as ‘terrorist attack’

Grocery retailer Metro sees a jump in profits

Canadian men’s volleyball team falls to Cuba in Pan American Cup final

Fireworks explosion in Armenia’s capital kills at least 2, injures dozens

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U.S. congressional delegation visiting Taiwan 12 days after Pelosi trip

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Intermountain CEO Dr. Marc Harrison leaving for General Catalyst

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Unifor membership elects Lana Payne as new leader

The Joint Commission to add health equity standards to accreditations

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2-time champion Simona Halep advances to National Bank Open final

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7-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi misses cut for 30-man list of nominees

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Inflation Reduction Act contains important cost-saving changes for many patients

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Much of Russia’s intellectual elite has fled the country

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Much of Russia’s intellectual elite has fled the country
economy

Much of Russia’s intellectual elite has fled the country

editor August 9, 2022

On a recent warm and breezy Saturday night a few dozen Russians—mostly in their 20s and 30s—crammed into a small Soviet-era apartment in Vakke, a well-heeled part of Tbilisi, Georgia’s … Read More

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Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
economy

Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?

editor August 5, 2022

“I am in a hurry,” says Conny Helder, a Dutch minister who juggles the portfolios of sport and care for the elderly. She is referring to the second half of … Read More

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The women’s Euros are selling out stadiums
economy

The women’s Euros are selling out stadiums

editor July 21, 2022

It was just the sort of start a host nation hopes for. On July 6th the opening game of the 2022 European Women’s Football Championship saw England beat Austria 1-0. … Read More

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Catholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuse
economy

Catholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuse

editor July 14, 2022

It is just one of thousands of similar stories. Juan Cuatrecasas’s son attended a school in Bilbao run by Opus Dei, a Catholic institution. Around age 12, he became afraid … Read More

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Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
economy

Covid learning loss has been a global disaster

editor July 7, 2022

King norvic tarroyo lives with his parents and five siblings in a slum near the sea wall in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The eight-year-old has not set foot … Read More

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Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
economy

Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer

editor June 30, 2022

Laura buckingham could have died three times. Ms Buckingham, 37, has one son. She has also had 11 planned pregnancies that have gone wrong. In one case a miscarriage led … Read More

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Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
economy

Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest

editor June 23, 2022

“Money no longer had any value in Istanbul,” laments the narrator of “My Name is Red”, a novel by Orhan Pamuk set in the 16th century. “[B]akeries that once sold … Read More

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Swimming’s ruling on transgender women continues a trend
economy

Swimming’s ruling on transgender women continues a trend

editor June 22, 2022

FIRST IT WAS rugby union. Now it is swimming. On June 19th the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), swimming’s global governing body, ruled that transgender women—ie, biological males who consider … Read More

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Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
economy

Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?

editor June 17, 2022

DURING the early weeks of the pandemic in 2020, as China imposed strict controls on the movement of its citizens, technology became the main means of tackling anxiety and depression. … Read More

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Does the tank have a future?
economy

Does the tank have a future?

editor June 15, 2022

The war in Ukraine has exposed the vehicle’s vulnerabilities. They can be overcome Source link

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The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law
economy

The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law

editor June 7, 2022

Rose, a 40-year-old woman in Manila, long beaten up by her husband, finds her predicament markedly worsen as the covid-19 lockdown leaves him at home most of the time. A … Read More

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Climate change is harder on less educated people
economy

Climate change is harder on less educated people

editor June 2, 2022

When shadrack lolokuru was “nine or ten”, his relatives put him into a bucket and lowered him into a well. From the murky bottom, he filled the bucket and passed … Read More

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Less educated people are finding it harder to adapt to climate change
economy

Less educated people are finding it harder to adapt to climate change

editor June 1, 2022

When shadrack Lolokuru was “nine or ten”, his relatives put him into a bucket and lowered him into a well. From the murky bottom, he filled the bucket and passed … Read More

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Anonymous tipsters, angry at Russia, help detect sanctions-busters
economy

Anonymous tipsters, angry at Russia, help detect sanctions-busters

editor May 25, 2022

Never before have Western economic sanctions proliferated in such numbers. More have been slapped on entities connected to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine on February 24th than had been … Read More

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Anonymous tipsters, angry at Russia, help finger sanctions-busters
economy

Anonymous tipsters, angry at Russia, help finger sanctions-busters

editor May 24, 2022

Never before have Western economic sanctions proliferated in such numbers. More have been slapped on entities connected to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine on February 24th than had been … Read More

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The Putin Show | The Economist
economy

The Putin Show | The Economist

editor May 17, 2022

WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN was first elected president of Russia in 2000, he changed little in the office he inherited from Boris Yeltsin. Yet in place of a pen on the … Read More

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The Putin Show | The Economist
economy

The Putin Show | The Economist

editor May 17, 2022

WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN was first elected president of Russia in 2000, he changed little in the office he inherited from Boris Yeltsin. Yet in place of a pen on the … Read More

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The expulsion of Donald Trump marks a watershed for Facebook and Twitter
economy

The expulsion of Donald Trump marks a watershed for Facebook and Twitter

editor May 14, 2022

THE MEGAPHONE has been taken away. On January 8th Twitter, a social network, announced that it was “permanently suspending” President Donald Trump’s account. Viewed in isolation, the two tweets that … Read More

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Political theorists have been worrying about mob rule for 2,000 years
economy

Political theorists have been worrying about mob rule for 2,000 years

editor May 14, 2022

LIBERALS HAVE become lazy when thinking about the mob. They have celebrated “people power” when it threatens regimes they disapprove of, in the Middle East, say, while turning a blind … Read More

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Digital media fuel global protests but can be used against them
economy

Digital media fuel global protests but can be used against them

editor May 14, 2022

THE MOB that rampaged through the Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6th would acknowledge little in common with the pro-democracy activists who invaded Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) in … Read More

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Messaging services are providing a more private internet
economy

Messaging services are providing a more private internet

editor May 13, 2022

WHATSAPP, WHICH 2bn people use to send some 100bn messages a day, is rarely in the news. When it is, the stories are mostly about whether, in order to increase … Read More

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Why do some people risk their lives for fun?
economy

Why do some people risk their lives for fun?

editor May 13, 2022

LAURENT FRAT is standing on top of a ridge line in the French alps, preparing to leap down to the valley below. If something goes wrong, he will die. “If … Read More

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Surrogacy reform is spreading in the rich world
economy

Surrogacy reform is spreading in the rich world

editor May 13, 2022

MYRANDA CHANCEY loves being pregnant. So much so, that after having three children of her own, the 26-year-old decided in 2019 to be pregnant for someone else: “I think everyone … Read More

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Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad
economy

Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad

editor May 13, 2022

AT FIRST GLANCE, a murder in Istanbul, an abduction in Dubai and a deportation from Austria may seem to be unrelated. But they are all part of a disturbing pattern … Read More

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The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
economy

The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech

editor May 12, 2022

A COMMAND CENTRE to scan the digital realm for global disinformation campaigns. Standardised plugs for electric cars that will work both in America and in the European Union (EU) and … Read More

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Even before covid-19, nightclubs were struggling
economy

Even before covid-19, nightclubs were struggling

editor May 12, 2022

IN NORMAL TIMES it is notoriously difficult to get past the bouncers at Berghain, a techno nightclub in eastern Berlin. But in September the establishment flung its doors wide: anyone … Read More

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Censorious governments are abusing “fake news” laws
economy

Censorious governments are abusing “fake news” laws

editor May 12, 2022

DURING HIS final days Mohamed Monir, an Egyptian journalist, was so short of breath he could barely speak. In a video recorded in July last year, as his final hours … Read More

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The pandemic made the world realise the importance of human contact
economy

The pandemic made the world realise the importance of human contact

editor May 12, 2022

IT HAS BEEN 11 months since anyone hugged Larry. The 62-year-old accountant lives alone in Chicago, which went into lockdown last March in response to covid-19. He has heart problems … Read More

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Covid-19 has persuaded some parents that home-schooling is better
economy

Covid-19 has persuaded some parents that home-schooling is better

editor May 11, 2022

EMILY CLARK’S boys did not return to class in September, when schools in England opened to all pupils for the first time since the spring. Her three school-aged sons had … Read More

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Is it time for “ecocide” to become an international crime?
economy

Is it time for “ecocide” to become an international crime?

editor May 11, 2022

AT THE NUREMBERG trials, which began on November 20th 1945, allied forces prosecuted leading Nazis for atrocities committed during the Holocaust and the second world war. Among the charges against … Read More

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How far-right extremism is becoming a global threat
economy

How far-right extremism is becoming a global threat

editor May 11, 2022

GINA BISIGNANO cut an unusual figure among the rioters on January 6th. Not many chose to storm the Capitol dressed in Chanel boots, a Louis Vuitton sweater and fashionable sunglasses. … Read More

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As covid-19 vaccines spread, so do underhand ways to get them
economy

As covid-19 vaccines spread, so do underhand ways to get them

editor May 11, 2022

This article has been updated since its publication. WHEN THE first covid-19 vaccines began to be distributed in December, Jürgen Stock, the secretary-general of Interpol, the world’s policing body, called … Read More

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Poor countries struggling with debt fight to get help
economy

Poor countries struggling with debt fight to get help

editor May 10, 2022

ON THE MORNING of November 13th last year Zambia’s vice-president told parliament, “This country will not default.” Hours later the inevitable happened. Having destroyed its relationship with the IMF, struggled … Read More

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Violence against women is a scourge on poor countries
economy

Violence against women is a scourge on poor countries

editor May 10, 2022

“I DID NOT get pregnant by choice,” says Annunciata, a mother of eight in Mweso, eastern Congo. Her husband often raped her. “Husbands do that,” she says matter-of-factly. He hit … Read More

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Nicaragua shows how poor countries can reduce domestic violence
economy

Nicaragua shows how poor countries can reduce domestic violence

editor May 10, 2022

TO SHOW HOW her husband would hit her, Ana (not her real name) makes a fist with her slender fingers and swings. He began soon after their marriage when she … Read More

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The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
economy

The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness

editor May 10, 2022

THE COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing good for the mood of Park Ha-young, an undergraduate at Seoul National University. She spent much of last year worrying about the disease, and … Read More

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Russia’s brutal mercenaries probably won’t matter much in Ukraine
economy

Russia’s brutal mercenaries probably won’t matter much in Ukraine

editor May 9, 2022

LOOK ONLY at the top of the photograph of four men posing in military garb and the mood seems light. One man smiles. Another puffs on a cigarette while staring … Read More

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UN peacekeeping is hamstrung by national rules for its troops
economy

UN peacekeeping is hamstrung by national rules for its troops

editor May 9, 2022

THE PEOPLE OF the dusty eastern Congolese town of Mubambiro put little faith in the protection promised by the UN’s blue helmets in their midst. Fabrice Zahiga, a government functionary … Read More

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Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes
economy

Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes

editor May 9, 2022

MANUEL SUFFERED two serious brain injuries as a child in Denver, Colorado. The first was the result of a fall. The second occurred when someone threw a rock at his … Read More

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Almost one billion doses of covid-19 vaccines have been produced
economy

Almost one billion doses of covid-19 vaccines have been produced

editor May 9, 2022

FLIGHT EK 787 touched down in Accra at 7.39am on February 24th. It was carrying 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine. The shots arrived in Ghana from the Serum Institute … Read More

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When brawn and technology ruin the spectacle of sports
economy

When brawn and technology ruin the spectacle of sports

editor May 8, 2022

THE 13TH hole at Augusta National, named Azalea after the riotous pink blooms behind the green, is one of golf’s most celebrated par-fives. Its fairway turns sharply left after 275 … Read More

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Love them or hate them, virtual meetings are here to stay
economy

Love them or hate them, virtual meetings are here to stay

editor May 8, 2022

GEORGINA IS IN no hurry to get back to the office. The 37-year-old, who works in financial services in Geneva, has been working from home for most of the past … Read More

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Covid-19 is fuelling a Zoom-boom in cosmetic surgery
economy

Covid-19 is fuelling a Zoom-boom in cosmetic surgery

editor May 8, 2022

CALL IT “Zoom face-envy”. Because of the rise of video-conferencing during the pandemic, legions now spend hours staring at their own faces and, inevitably, comparing them with those of others. … Read More

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India has proved to be a popular—and clever—investor in poor countries
economy

India has proved to be a popular—and clever—investor in poor countries

editor May 8, 2022

IN CENTRAL Lusaka a brand-new flyover flutters with the green, white and saffron of the Indian flag. Throughout the Zambian capital lorries produced by Tata Motors, part of the steel-to-tech … Read More

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Female soldiers are changing how armed forces work
economy

Female soldiers are changing how armed forces work

editor May 7, 2022

RACHEL GRIMES served three tours of Northern Ireland as an officer in the British army. Her colleagues in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the region’s erstwhile police force, noticed that things … Read More

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The West’s armies are getting more serious about climate change
economy

The West’s armies are getting more serious about climate change

editor May 7, 2022

WESTERN DEFENCE ministries are talking up their willingness to take on a new enemy: climate change. In March Lloyd Austin, America’s defence secretary, wrote that “the changing climate is altering … Read More

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Diplomacy has changed more than most professions during the pandemic
economy

Diplomacy has changed more than most professions during the pandemic

editor May 7, 2022

WHILE ASSORTED G20 “Sherpas”, officials who do the donkey work on summits, gathered in Dhahran in Saudi Arabia in March last year, lockdowns were starting and international travel was stopping. … Read More

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New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale
economy

New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale

editor May 7, 2022

NOBODY LIKES a call from the taxman. Donald Rumsfeld, who as America’s defence secretary oversaw a budget bigger than the economy of a typical country, nonetheless finds the rules so … Read More

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France is confronting its history in Algeria
economy

France is confronting its history in Algeria

editor May 6, 2022

IN MARCH, BENEATH the chandeliers of the Elysée palace, four adult cousins met Emmanuel Macron, France’s president. What really happened, they wanted to know, to their grandfather, Ali Boumendjel, a … Read More

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How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents
economy

How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents

editor May 6, 2022

“ON SOME DAYS everything gets totally out of hand,” sighs Katharina Boesche, a German self-employed lawyer and mother of three. Fourteen months of closures and semi-closures of her daughters’ schools … Read More

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Joe Biden orders his spooks to investigate the origins of covid-19
economy

Joe Biden orders his spooks to investigate the origins of covid-19

editor May 6, 2022

IN MARCH, President Joe Biden asked his spooks how the covid-19 pandemic had started. Contradicting claims made last year by Donald Trump, who said the intelligence services had shown him … Read More

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Assessing the theory that covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab
economy

Assessing the theory that covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab

editor May 6, 2022

IT IS POSSIBLE that the chain of infections which spread SARS-CoV-2 around the world began, as most new diseases do, when an animal virus found its way unaided into humans, … Read More

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A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
economy

A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities

editor May 5, 2022

HOURS BEFORE Jo Phoenix, a professor of criminology at Britain’s Open University, was due to give a talk at Essex University about placing transgender women in women’s prisons, students threatened … Read More

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The pandemic has exacerbated existing political discontent
economy

The pandemic has exacerbated existing political discontent

editor May 5, 2022

A PILE OF fake corpses littered the heart of Bangkok. The bodies—white sacks stuffed with hay and spattered with red paint—symbolised Thai victims of covid-19. “They’re dead because of the … Read More

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At 70, the global convention on refugees is needed more than ever
economy

At 70, the global convention on refugees is needed more than ever

editor May 5, 2022

WHEN THE Turkish coastguard found them in the Aegean in the dead of night, they had been adrift for three hours. The air was hissing out of their rubber dinghy. … Read More

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Press freedom is under attack
economy

Press freedom is under attack

editor May 5, 2022

May 3rd 2022  |  Budapest, Hong Kong, Mumbai and St Petersburg Olga Rudenko has a litany of worries as editor of the Kyiv Independent, an online newspaper in Ukraine. Since … Read More

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Travel chaos will last well beyond summer
economy

Travel chaos will last well beyond summer

editor May 4, 2022

TOM MAPLES spent five days and almost $7,000 getting home to London from Tanzania in May. Many African countries are on the English “red list”, meaning anyone who has visited … Read More

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The world needs a proper investigation into how covid-19 started
economy

The world needs a proper investigation into how covid-19 started

editor May 4, 2022

“THE VIRUS MYSTERY”, broadcast on August 12th, drew uncommonly wide attention for a Danish television documentary. That was because it featured Peter Ben Embarek, an expert on food security and … Read More

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Why America keeps building corrupt client states
economy

Why America keeps building corrupt client states

editor May 4, 2022

Aug 22nd 2021 ONCE AMERICA announced that it would not save its client state, things unravelled quickly. As the enemy seized province after province, government soldiers shed their uniforms and … Read More

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Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
economy

Climate change will alter where many crops are grown

editor May 4, 2022

Aug 28th 2021 TOM EISENHAUER remembers driving through Manitoba, a province in central Canada, more than a decade ago. Surrounding his car were fields of cold-weather crops, such as wheat, … Read More

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From Congo to the Capitol, conspiracy theories are surging
economy

From Congo to the Capitol, conspiracy theories are surging

editor May 3, 2022

IN LATE JULY, less than a week after the British government lifted most of its remaining covid-19 restrictions, several thousand people nonetheless gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest against … Read More

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As a rich-world covid-vaccine glut looms, poor countries miss out
economy

As a rich-world covid-vaccine glut looms, poor countries miss out

editor May 3, 2022

Sep 4th 2021 FOR MUCH of this year, the global distribution of covid vaccines has been enormously inequitable. The rollout has been a two-speed affair, with richer countries in the … Read More

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How the world changed | The Economist
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How the world changed | The Economist

editor May 3, 2022

Sep 10th 2021 WILL ANYTHING ever be the same? In the days after 9/11, when all were stunned, it was clear the world had changed profoundly. Less obvious was just … Read More

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Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable
economy

Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable

editor May 3, 2022

Sep 11th 2021 BASRA AND TORORO “A WOMAN WHO drives a car will be killed,” says Sheikh Hazim Muhammad al-Manshad. He says it matter-of-factly, without raising his voice. The unwritten … Read More

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The Gates Foundation’s approach has both advantages and limits
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The Gates Foundation’s approach has both advantages and limits

editor May 2, 2022

THE JANICKI OMNI PROCESSOR, a $2m machine paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, turns human waste into water and electricity. In poor cities such as Dakar in … Read More

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What does the Australian submarine deal mean for non-proliferation?
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What does the Australian submarine deal mean for non-proliferation?

editor May 2, 2022

Sep 17th 2021 Only once in its history has America handed over a nuclear submarine propulsion plant, the crown jewels of military technology, to another country. That was 63 years … Read More

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The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting
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The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting

editor May 2, 2022

Sep 19th 2021 JUST OCCASIONALLY, you can see the tectonic plates of geopolitics shifting in front of your eyes. Suez in 1956, Nixon going to China in 1972 and the … Read More

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Measures to prevent the spread of covid-19 have also fended off flu
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Measures to prevent the spread of covid-19 have also fended off flu

editor May 2, 2022

Sep 22nd 2021 IN SEPTEMBER 2020 doctors and public-health officials in the northern hemisphere were on high alert. They did not know how covid-19 would behave in the first winter … Read More

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Award: Natasha Loder and Simon Akam
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Award: Natasha Loder and Simon Akam

editor May 1, 2022

Oct 1st 2021 Natasha Loder and Simon Akam jointly won a Feature of the Year prize from the Medical Journalists’ Association for their coverage in The Economist and 1843 of … Read More

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The military draft is making a comeback
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The military draft is making a comeback

editor May 1, 2022

HIS ARM and a leg wrapped in bandages, Artyom Uymanen stood outside a St Petersburg voyenkomat, or military recruitment centre, in 2019 to protest against Russia’s mandatory military draft. The … Read More

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The pandemic will spur the worldwide growth of private tutoring
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The pandemic will spur the worldwide growth of private tutoring

editor May 1, 2022

Oct 7th 2021 DELHI, NAIROBI AND NORWICH SIINA KARBIN, a Finn living in Vienna, had never imagined paying someone to tutor her children. But then in early 2020 Austria’s schools … Read More

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Two journalists who have exposed human-rights abuses win the Nobel peace prize
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Two journalists who have exposed human-rights abuses win the Nobel peace prize

editor May 1, 2022

Oct 8th 2021 THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE has not had the greatest few years. In 2019, to great fanfare, it was given to Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, … Read More

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The IEA warns much more ambition is needed to curb global warming
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The IEA warns much more ambition is needed to curb global warming

editor April 30, 2022

Oct 13th 2021 “A NEW GLOBAL energy economy is emerging.” Thus declared Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, a global forecaster, launching the organisation’s World Energy Outlook, its … Read More

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Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online
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Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online

editor April 30, 2022

Oct 16th 2021 DAKAR, DUBAI, ISTANBUL, NEW YORK AND SINGAPORE ON OCTOBER 8TH two journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, won the Nobel peace prize for their “efforts to safeguard … Read More

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A Russian editor says he won the Nobel because his slain colleagues could not
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A Russian editor says he won the Nobel because his slain colleagues could not

editor April 30, 2022

Oct 16th 2021 THE DAY before Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel peace prize, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta stood in remembrance outside the Moscow apartment block where his newspaper’s most … Read More

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Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26
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Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26

editor April 30, 2022

Oct 23rd 2021 LAST-MINUTE APPEALS are common in the weeks preceding the COP, the UN’s annual climate summit. Green groups urge world leaders to promise bold action. Poor countries ask … Read More

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Why vaccine passports are causing chaos
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Why vaccine passports are causing chaos

editor April 29, 2022

MANY COUNTRIES did not require passports before the first world war. But as the conflict spread, states scrambled to introduce travel documents to help secure their borders. The result, after … Read More

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Weak commitments from the G20 cast a shadow over COP26’s opening
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Weak commitments from the G20 cast a shadow over COP26’s opening

editor April 29, 2022

COP26, THE UN climate summit that began in Glasgow on Sunday, has got off to an inauspicious start. The city itself is grappling with a strike by rubbish collectors, who … Read More

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If the world loves forests, it should put a price on their carbon
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If the world loves forests, it should put a price on their carbon

editor April 29, 2022

Nov 4th 2021 Kyiv and São Paulo Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Save time by … Read More

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The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed
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The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed

editor April 28, 2022

IT IS A little-known fact that there is no formally agreed rule for how decisions must be made within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), whose parties are … Read More

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How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe’s demography
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How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe’s demography

editor April 28, 2022

Apr 30th 2022 Kyiv and Vienna BEFORE VLADIMIR PUTIN invaded Ukraine on February 24th, many Europeans fretted that their region was getting older and that more people were dying than … Read More

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What happened at COP26? | The Economist
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What happened at COP26? | The Economist

editor April 28, 2022

MORE THAN a day after it was meant to finish, COP26 finally came to an end, with 197 parties agreeing to the newly-dubbed “Glasgow Climate Pact”. There were several notable … Read More

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COP26 ends with a pact that is neither a triumph nor a trainwreck
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COP26 ends with a pact that is neither a triumph nor a trainwreck

editor April 28, 2022

Nov 13th 2021 MORE THAN a day after it was meant to finish, COP26 finally came to an end, with 197 parties agreeing to the newly-dubbed “Glasgow Climate Pact”. There … Read More

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In the West, assisted dying is rapidly becoming legal and accepted
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In the West, assisted dying is rapidly becoming legal and accepted

editor April 27, 2022

Nov 13th 2021 Amsterdam and Ottawa SHORTLY BEFORE Ángel Hernández handed his wife the glass of barbiturates that would kill her, he asked her once again if she wanted to … Read More

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Was COP26 in Glasgow a success?
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Was COP26 in Glasgow a success?

editor April 27, 2022

LATE IN THE afternoon of Saturday November 13th, when the COP26 climate talks were nearly 24 hours into overtime, the European Commission’s vice president, Frans Timmermans, took the floor. He … Read More

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The Glasgow summit left a huge hole in the world’s plans to curb climate change
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The Glasgow summit left a huge hole in the world’s plans to curb climate change

editor April 27, 2022

AS COP26 FINALLY came to a close on November 13th, more than 24 hours behind schedule, the mood inside the drab temporary buildings erected to house it on the banks … Read More

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Vast satellite constellations are alarming astronomers
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Vast satellite constellations are alarming astronomers

editor April 27, 2022

Nov 25th 2021 ON MAY 24TH 2019 a Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX launched 60 communication satellites into a low orbit around the Earth. That evening they appeared as … Read More

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BioNTech’s boss, Ugur Sahin, remains sanguine about Omicron
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BioNTech’s boss, Ugur Sahin, remains sanguine about Omicron

editor April 26, 2022

THE BOSS of the firm that invented the first effective vaccine against the virus that causes covid-19 is refusing to panic about the spread of Omicron, its newest variant. “I … Read More

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Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
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Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity

editor April 26, 2022

Nov 30th 2021 YOU HAVE heard it many times during the pandemic: nobody is safe until everyone is safe. Large unvaccinated populations in poor countries will contract covid-19. The virus … Read More

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A tussle for control of Interpol pits good cops against bad
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A tussle for control of Interpol pits good cops against bad

editor April 26, 2022

Dec 4th 2021 ISTANBUL, MOSCOW AND ROME ALI AHMAD, a British security guard, was arrested while on holiday in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2019. He had attended a … Read More

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Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
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Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership

editor April 26, 2022

Dec 11th 2021 Madison and Paris THE ALLIANT ENERGY CENTRE, a stadium complex in Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, hosts all sorts of events, from exhibitions to concerts. In November … Read More

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The Omicron variant advances at an incredible rate
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The Omicron variant advances at an incredible rate

editor April 25, 2022

Dec 18th 2021 EXPONENTIAL GROWTH is a dizzying thing. In the week to December 8th Britain saw 536 new cases of covid-19 ascribed to the Omicron variant, less than 0.5% … Read More

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Are video games really addictive?
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Are video games really addictive?

editor April 25, 2022

Jan 1st 2022 WHEN CHINA’S government censors books, bars “effeminate men” from television or spoon-feeds Communist Party dogma to schoolchildren, liberals agree that its behaviour is shockingly repressive. But when … Read More

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The world’s religions face a post-pandemic reckoning
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The world’s religions face a post-pandemic reckoning

editor April 25, 2022

ASK A VICAR, a rabbi or an imam about the biggest challenge facing his or her congregation, and the need to foster spiritual values in a secular world may leap … Read More

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Do tips make for better service?
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Do tips make for better service?

editor April 25, 2022

Jan 15th 2022 DAVID FRANK started working for tips when he was 11 years old, delighting restaurant diners in New York with his magic tricks. As a teenager he would … Read More

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Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty
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Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty

editor April 24, 2022

SCOTT AND his then wife, who live in Australia, had a vile but not unusual divorce. Their lawyers, he said, “fired off affidavits and legal letters at each other” for … Read More

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Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?
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Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?

editor April 24, 2022

Jan 29th 2022 DURING DONALD TRUMP’S presidency many people looked afresh at China’s technological prowess. Some concluded that it posed a threat to Western economies, and perhaps even to global … Read More

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Covid-19 has pushed governments to find new ways to help the poor
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Covid-19 has pushed governments to find new ways to help the poor

editor April 24, 2022

Feb 4th 2022 Kampala, New Delhi and São Paulo FRADIA BULAGE, a school nurse in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, says the 100,000 shillings ($29) the government gave her last year through … Read More

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How Russia has revived NATO
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How Russia has revived NATO

editor April 24, 2022

Feb 12th 2022 Berlin, Brussels, Kyiv, Moscow and Paris VLADIMIR PUTIN’S giant oval table in the Kremlin is as extreme as it is kitsch. Sitting far from foreign visitors may … Read More

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Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
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Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend

editor April 23, 2022

Apr 23rd 2022 I N AUGUST 2018 ClientEarth, an environmental organisation based in London, paid €20 ($23) for ten shares in Enea, a power company based in Poland. The transaction … Read More

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