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Middle East & Africa

Jihadists in the Sahel threaten west Africa’s coastal states

Thousands of soldiers are struggling to stem the violence

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Fighting in the Sahel has forced 1.7m people from their homes

Europe

Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party clings on to the presidency

The campaign invoked classic populist themes

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Europe

Venice tests its flood defences

A success, sort of

By Invitation

Roland Fryer on better alternatives to defunding the police

Programmes to support black communities reduce crime; less policing increases it

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Business

Bartleby: Slackers and Stakhanovites

How the lockdown has affected a classic dictum about work

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Which parts of Africa will be hit hardest by covid-19?

The true extent of the damage will probably never be known

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Books & arts

The experiences of an obscure woman illuminate Japanese history

Tsuneno’s life was not heroic—but Amy Stanley’s patient reconstruction of it is

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The new ideology of race: and what's wrong with it

July 11th 2020
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United States

America’s huge stimulus is having surprising effects on the poor

Finance & economics

Stockmarket mania comes to China again. Can it last this time?

Leaders

A better way to contain Iran’s nuclear programme

Graphic detail

Money really can buy happiness and recessions can take it away

Polls from 145 countries show that citizens of wealthier ones are more satisfied and secure

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In context: Tech wars

Leaders

TikTok and the Sino-American tech split

The tech industry is dividing

Business

Why SMIC is surging

China’s leading chipmaker looks unfazed by Uncle Sam’s semiconductor sabre-rattling

Britain

Britain’s worsening relations with China

China

The West cannot force China to read its interests differently

Special report: The new world disorder

Global leadership is missing in action

Seventy-five years ago the world’s leaders designed the peace even as they fought the war. Today’s leaders need to do something similar, says Daniel Franklin

Who runs the world?

As America gets tired, China gets busy

The UN has too much on its plate

Missions impossible

The clock is ticking for nuclear arms control

Avoidable Armageddon

The UN’s structures built in 1945 are not fit for 2020, let alone beyond it

Grand redesigns

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