Egypt sharply raises energy prices

Prime minister says would be ‘crime’ not to proceed with reform long postponed for fear of social unrest

Mexico senate approves telecom reform

Curbs to Carlos Slim empire to be approved next week by lower house

Pro-Russian separatists flee Ukraine stronghold

Rebels plead for Russian intervention

Arab youth ‘burned to death’

Tensions escalate after hostilities appeared to ease in Gaza strip

Germany arrests ‘US double agent’

Apprehension likely to inflame tensions

Video shows ‘Isis leader’ in Iraqi sermon

More blasts in capital as Maliki insists on third term

PM orders probe into lost child sex file

Dossier alleged paedophile activity in Westminster in 1980s

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Ignore the whistleblower at your peril

GSK case shows why leaks should be taken seriously

Hong Kong: Change in the air

As Beijing seeks to ‘clarify’ the level of autonomy in the former British colony, a mood of rebellion is growing

John Authers

Stocks correction better than comeuppance

Fears over Fed making hawkish or dovish ‘mistake’

Illustration by James Ferguson by Junot Diaz
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Junot Díaz

Born in the Dominican Republic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks migration, machismo and swearing in Spanish

Comment and Analysis

Executive powers show Obama’s weakness

The president will be blamed for problem arising from leniency at the border

Sarkozy’s return will stifle the debate

If the first act ended in tragedy, the French are settling down for a farce, writes Gaspard Koenig

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Europe’s flawed privacy ruling

ECJ’s right to be forgotten hurts Google but achieves little

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