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Middle East & Africa
A year after the Beirut blast: still no bottom to Lebanon’s crisis
The disastrous explosion in the port should have been a nadir. But things keep getting worse
Business
Semiconductors pose an unwelcome roadblock for carmakers
Rethinking supply chains for the electric era
Europe
Belarus is exporting chaos to the rest of Europe
The plights of an activist in Ukraine and an athlete in Japan show there is no safe place to be a dissenting Belarusian
The world in brief
President Joe Biden joined some top Democrats in calling on Andrew Cuomo to resign following the release of a damning report that revealed the New York governor’s pattern of sexual harassment...
America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced it will halt evictions in parts of the country hard hit by the Delta variant of covid-19...
The Taliban, a militant group, captured most of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand, Afghanistan...
America’s top securities regulator asked Congress for more power to protect investors in cryptocurrency markets, which he likened to the “Wild West”...
Findings of sexual harassment put Andrew Cuomo in jeopardy
The governor of New York faces calls to resign and possible impeachment
Free exchange: Why have some places suffered more covid-19 deaths than others?
Income inequality is a big part of the answer
How the Olympics became bigger and more diverse
From sailing to sport climbing, the games are a broad church
Webtoons are South Korea’s latest export hit
Film and television adaptations have spread their influence beyond comic aficionados
The Olympics
Our best stories about the Tokyo games
1843 magazine
Long reads and life
The global normalcy index
Is the world returning to pre-pandemic life?
Weekly edition: July 31st 2021
Dashed hopes: Emerging markets’ growth problem
Why people reject jabs
Surging covid infections and slow vaccinations in some states are caused by health illiteracy, not just partisanship
How far will China's tech-bashing go?
Online-education firms will not be the last victims
Robinhood and the merry mob
Our Wall Street correspondent participates
Proteinotopia: biological origami
Life can make extraordinary variety by following quite simple strategies
Vaccine hesitancy
America’s vaccination woes cannot be blamed only on politics
Surging covid infections and slow vaccinations in some states are caused by health illiteracy, not just partisanship
Which Americans are against the jab?
All things being equal, supporters of Donald Trump are 18 percentage points more likely to shun covid-19 vaccines
The right and wrong ways to reduce vaccine hesitancy
More people are willing to get jabbed amid speedy vaccination campaigns—or during surging covid-19 outbreaks
Tracking covid-19 across the world
Use our live data to follow the battle against the pandemic
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Graphic detail
An Inca highway still benefits people living nearby
A new study finds that wages, nutrition and schooling levels along a pre-Columbian road are all unusually high
Special reports: June 26th 2021
The Chinese Communist Party
The world’s most powerful political party was founded a century ago. James Miles says it is projecting ever greater confidence, while fortifying itself against collapse
The push to revamp the Chinese Communist Party for the next 100 years
Trying to heal the party’s wounds
Busybodies, backed by AI, are restoring the party’s visibility
The party is eager to expand its influence within business
Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite
As Chinese citizens head overseas, the party does likewise
A future, but with Chinese characteristics
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