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Why is Wall Street expanding in China?

It may be a step on the way to China becoming a financial superpower

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Is Wall Street winning in China?

Middle East & Africa

The UN’s peacekeepers are under pressure to quit Congo

The peacekeeping mission has struggled to bring peace, but leaving could make things even worse

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Books & arts

An ethnographer’s study of drill music and gang violence in Chicago

Forrest Stuart embedded with rappers on the city’s South Side for over 18 months

Leaders

Covid-19 strengthens the case for digital ID cards

With safeguards for privacy and security, they make government work better

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China

Chaguan: To buy peace, officials in China tolerate some forms of disobedience

Their goal, though, is the maintenance of power

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America’s election of mistrust

Abe assessed • The odd couple of finance • India’s cost of covid • Johnson’s competence questioned

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Books & arts

Is it possible to “write” using speech-to-text software?

Turning the spoken word into clear prose requires more planning than the human brain is capable of

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America’s ugly election: How bad could it get?

September 5th 2020
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Europe

Germany says that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok

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How did Americans use their coronavirus stimulus cheques?

Middle East & Africa

Old colonial powers are bidding for influence in Lebanon

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Air pollution is returning to pre-covid levels

This bodes ill for respiratory health

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In context: The geopolitics of the eastern Mediterranean

Europe

Turkey’s Black Sea gas find does not match its president’s hype

It will not end reliance on imports; and the eastern Med will stay tense

Leaders

Dealing with a dangerous dispute in the eastern Med

Turkey and Greece must be encouraged to exchange views, not blows

International

A row over gas is raising tension in the eastern Mediterranean

Europe

Turkey and Greece avoid coming to blows, for now

Special report: Dementia

As humanity ages the numbers of people with dementia will surge

The world is ill-prepared for the frightening human, economic and social implications

The search for a cure for dementia is not going well

But behavioural changes can reduce the risk of developing it

The big question about dementia care is who is going to do it

The best care is “people-centred”, ie, labour-intensive

Might dementia tourism to lower-wage economies become a trend?

It will remain a niche market; but shows how the best care needs a lot of carers

No country has found a sustainable way to finance dementia care

And most have not even tried

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