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Middle East & Africa

The CIA blames MBS for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

The Biden administration is fed up with Saudi Arabia’s ruthless crown prince

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Obituary: Jamal Khashoggi

Business

McKinsey suffers from collective self-delusion

The smuggest guys in the room

Middle East & Africa

Why does it cost so much to be an African MP?

In part, because politicians have to fill gaps left by the state

Leaders

Lessons from Britain’s pandemic on promoting innovation

Move fast and remove barriers are the best things the government can do

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Joe Biden’s $1.9trn stimulus package is one of the most popular bills in decades

Yet Republican legislators are united in their opposition to it

Books & arts

Johnson: Artificial intelligence has a problem with grammar

The hitch illuminates the nature of language

Science & technology

Killer whales v great white sharks

What happens when one apex predator elbows out another

Technology and competition

Leaders

The rules of the tech game are changing

A new phase in the global tech contest is under way

Business

The new rules of competition in the technology industry

Tech giants’ fiefs are no longer quite as safe as they used to be

Business

Apple’s duel with Facebook is a new form of big-tech rivalry

One day, will it be headsets v handsets?

Business

Facebook and Australia both claim victory as they end their spat

The social network coughs up, but wriggles out of the obligations it had feared most

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Tech’s big dust-up

February 27th 2021
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Leaders

The rules of the tech game are changing

A new phase in the global tech contest is under way

Science & technology

DNA from Neanderthals affects vulnerability to covid-19

One genetic legacy is protective. Another is harmful

Finance & economics

What is the cheapest way to cut carbon?

Bill Gates is the latest to grapple with a thorny question

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The same covid-19 mutations are appearing in different places

Convergent evolution may make travel restrictions redundant

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Russia and Turkey

Europe

Putin and Erdogan have formed a brotherhood of hard power

But the bond is brittle

1843 magazine

Conflict in the Caucasus: when the soldiers are younger than the war they are fighting

Fear and fervour fuel conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Middle East & Africa

Turkey is wielding influence all over the Arab world

Middle East & Africa

Russia’s military gamble in Syria is paying off handsomely

Special report: The future of travel

What will travel look like after the pandemic?

Covid-19 has brought international travel to a standstill. But it will recover and may even become a better experience, says Simon Wright

Could covid-19 shake up air travel for the better?

Governments’ re-entry into airlines may spur more competition

How today’s reviled airlines could become greener

The pandemic has drawn attention to the environmental damage caused by air travel

Business travel may never fully recover from covid-19

Business class was late to the game. It might be early to leave too

The pandemic has hurt corporate jets less than commercial ones

The wealthy are not bound by airline schedules

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