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United States

Donald Trump is hoping for a covid-19 treatment by November

He might get one

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Covid-19 is here to stay. People will have to adapt

Europe

Angela Merkel’s soft China stance is challenged at home

German businesses have had enough of being nice

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Middle East & Africa

Covid-19 has throttled South Africa’s economy

A groundbreaking study reveals how many people have been tossed back into penury

Business

The varying American fortunes of Grindr and Blued

America’s government viewed one gay-dating app with Chinese ties as a national-security concern. Can another that has just listed in New York expect similar treatment?

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Asia

Banyan: India’s home minister is an unlikely champion of police reform

Amit Shah seems more interested in keeping power than tempering it

Daily chart

Week in charts: Late for school

America’s splurge amid the surge • The Arab world and cheap oil • Away with Huawei • Venice’s flood barrier

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Europe

Parisian snobbery towards regional French accents persists

But the new prime minister may challenge that

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Trade without trust: How the West should do business with China

July 18th 2020
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Books & arts

How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion

Europe

Venice tests its mighty flood defences

Finance & economics

How big is China’s economy? Let the Big Mac decide

Graphic detail

The world’s wealth is looking increasingly unnatural

As natural wealth is used up, economies will rely more on human capital

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In context: Race and social change

Leaders

The new ideology of race

And what is wrong with it

International

Enlightenment liberalism is losing ground in the debate about race

A new ideology is emerging

Briefing

Segregation still blights the lives of African-Americans

Leaders

The power of protest and the legacy of George Floyd

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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