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Can Friedrich Merz get Europe out of its funk?

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Arms and the man

Can Europe keep Ukraine in the fight if America really has bailed?

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London calling

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The Bank of Japan should stop defending its cap on bond yields

Dodged penalties

Why the West’s oil sanctions on Russia are proving to be underwhelming 

Latin American democracy

Peru needs an early election and outside support, not interference

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America’s government is spending lavishly to revive manufacturing

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For Britain to grow faster it needs better managers

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The BBC World Service shuts several foreign-language radio services

Economics on the box

The BBC assesses its coverage of the dismal science

Once more unto the breeches

The murder of a king makes for a most jolly day out 

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Where should trans prisoners serve their sentences?

Wipe out

Britain’s newest islets are made of wet wipes

Bagehot

Meet Ms Heeves, the face of Britain’s new political consensus

The broken toy

Georgia is drifting into the Kremlin’s orbit 

Recycling Russia

A campaign to “de-Russify” Ukraine is under way

Delayed ratification

A burnt Koran holds back Sweden and Finland from joining NATO

Germany’s Greens

Pragmatism paints a paler shade of Green

At last, populism in Europe is losing its mojo

Green v green

America needs a new environmentalism 

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Black and blue

Why holding bad police officers to account is so difficult

Ice, ice, maybe

The sport of ice fishing is being transformed by technology

Height of heists

Why it was so easy for crooks to steal money meant for pandemic relief

Preventing overdoses

Medication for opioid addiction is getting easier to access 

Lexington

Republicans are right that federal budgeting is a joke

Americas

Political turmoil is tearing Peru apart

The Americas

Smokes and fire

The United States says corruption in Paraguay starts at the top

The amazing race

Nigeria’s presidential race goes down to the wire

Middle East & Africa

To fight or not to fight

Can Kenya bring peace to eastern Congo?

Old birds and power cuts

South Africa’s blackouts hurt the economy in unexpected ways

Courting disaster

Lebanon’s judges battle over their probe of Beirut’s port blast

Curb the courts, sink the economy

Israel’s government is facing anger from new and unexpected quarters

A jilted mistress

France dumps Morocco in favour of Algeria

Chip networks, chip wars

America’s hoped-for Asian semiconductor pact looks tricky

Asia

Defending Ukraine

South Korea still refuses to send arms to Ukraine

Bollywood v BJP

Shah Rukh Khan faces down India’s Hindu right

Banyan

China’s put-upon maritime neighbours are pushing back

Asia’s multi-headed conflict

Myanmar’s civil war has moved to its heartlands

A representative problem

A new challenge to relations between America and China

China

Death and denial

Will we ever know how many people died of covid-19 in China?

Irreconcilable differences

A geopolitical setback for China in the Pacific

Chaguan

Why Vladimir Putin is not a pariah in China

Adani under fire

What next for Gautam Adani’s embattled empire?

Fireworks artists

Hindenburg Research, attacker of the Adani empire

Battle of the boffins

The race of the AI labs heats up

Bartleby

The relationship between AI and humans

Mark to market

Things are looking up for Meta

Entente cordiale

An alliance between Renault and Nissan gets a reboot

Schumpeter

China’s BYD is overtaking Tesla as the carmaker extraordinaire

Ships in the night

How Russia dodges oil sanctions on an industrial scale

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A nightmare job

Is there a fix for Japan’s markets mess?

Buttonwood

The last gasp of the meme-stock era

No relief in sight

China is paralysing global debt-forgiveness efforts

A spike in the tail

Rallying markets suffer from a doveish illusion

The grip tightens

Super-tight policy is still struggling to control inflation

Free exchange

The AI boom: lessons from history

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The touchy-feely world of the metaverse and future gadgets

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Brain scans and politics

People of different opinions process political data differently

Trendy tits

Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people

Pixels in the eye

Researchers find a way to make VR headsets more realistic 

Democracy and its discontents

Martin Wolf’s new book analyses the West’s malaise

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Bad memories

Explaining Chinese amnesia over the Cultural Revolution

Home Entertainment

Released 50 years ago, “Soylent Green” is an eerie prophecy

Transatlantic histories

As Europeans went west, indigenous people travelled the other way

Contemporary art

Look closely at Peter Doig’s paintings. Then look again

Johnson

Some well-known etymologies are too good to be true

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Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

Batting down disease

Habitat loss and climate change increase the risk of new diseases

Graphic detail

Wasp-waisted workhorse

Gina Lollobrigida’s ambition was her strength and her weakness

Obituary

Russia and Ukraine

Ukraine should—and, properly supported, can—seize Crimea, argues Ben Hodges

By Invitation

Talks between Russia and Ukraine would save lives, argues Christopher Chivvis

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Why does Ukraine want Western jets—and will it get them?

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