■The world this week
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Business this week
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■Leaders
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America’s lost oomph (113)
Afghanistan’s election
A useful crisis (2)
Europe’s future
Another fine mess (2)
Britain and Hong Kong
No panderers, please: this issue’s black and white (39)
Assisted suicide
Easeful death (37)

■Letters
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Letters to the editor

■Briefing
America’s economy
Jobs are not enough (3)

■United States
The mid-terms
The royals of Capitol Hill
How the world sees America
Still on a hill (1)
Rape and child custody
A question of proof (1)
Prosecuting rapists
Sitting on the evidence
Georgia’s Senate race
Tossing rotten fruit in the Peach State
Bar games
Skee-ball wizards
Food names
Stressed are the cheesemakers (29)
Lexington
The politics of the border crisis (15)

■The Americas
Venezuela’s oil diaspora
Brain haemorrhage (3)
Bello
The moderates fight back (1)
Latin American diplomacy
Monogamous no more
Panama hats
Hold onto your headwear

■Asia
Sanitation in India
The final frontier (30)
Japan
Not quite so invincible (1)
Cambodia’s politics
The vision thing (3)
Gays in Singapore
The pink and the pulp
Australia and climate change
Axed (5)
Asian fears of China’s rise
Jittery neighbours (3)

■China
Hong Kong’s media
Tamed hounds
Family planning
One-child proclivity
Anti-corruption drive
Anchor away

■Middle East and Africa
Israel and Gaza
When and how will it end? (31)
Conditions for a ceasefire
Why Hamas fires those rockets (1)
Libya
Real life—on television
Iran’s internet politics
Everyone’s doing it
Tourism in Saudi Arabia
Wish you were here (2)
Fertility and son-preference in Nigeria
Bring back the girls

■Europe
Françafrique
François Hollande’s African adventures
Eastern Ukraine
Fighting on (13)
Italy’s judicial system
Justice denied?
Europe’s top jobs
Indecision time
Hungary’s foreign policy
Between Brussels and Russia (10)
Slovenia’s election
A new man for the job
Charlemagne
Hail Helvetia

■Britain
Politics
Dressing up for the election (4)
Britain and Europe
The road to 2017 (2)
Northern Ireland
Black letter day Britain Only
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Butler’s loss Britain Only (2)
Snooping
Record time Britain Only
A hypothetical stockmarket
Liquid scotch? Britain Only (1)
The Church of England
The eleventh commandment Britain Only (7)
Bagehot
Cannonball Clarke
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■International
Low-cost fertility treatment
Maybe babies (1)
Assisted suicide
Where to go to die
The illegal trade in wild-animal products
Bitter pills

■Business
Weapons-makers
The case for defence (12)
Japanese arms firms
Late starters (3)
Tobacco
An irresistible urge to merge
Drugmakers
A new home for orphans
Corporate computing
Big Blue Apple (2)
Shell, Exxon and carbon
The elephant in the atmosphere (2)
The film industry
Rated “P” for persistent (2)
Schumpeter
Little things that mean a lot
Correction

■Finance and economics
The euro-zone economy
Losing the plot (2)
The BRICS bank
An acronym with capital (6)
Economics and ethics
Lying commies (4)
Buttonwood
No easy answers (1)
Egypt’s economy
Pharaonic frailties (2)
Citigroup
Paying up and moving on
Free exchange
Bridges to somewhere

■Science and technology
RoboCup
Humans 1, Machines 7 (4)
Claws!
A strange, new fossil arthropod
Alzheimer’s disease
Recherche du temps perdu (1)
National security
Intelligent intelligence
Chemical weapons
Mustard plants, not mustard gas

■Books and arts
New art from the Middle East
Shifting chronicle
Volcanoes
Vulcan’s twins
Burgundy
Amazing grapes
French fiction
Unhappy families
Architecture
Building societies (1)
Clare Boothe Luce
A woman of substance
Alan Stanbrook, 1938-2014

■Obituary
Obituary
Nadine Gordimer (1)

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