■The world this week
Politics this week
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KAL's cartoon (3)

■Leaders
China
What China wants (58)
The jihadists in Iraq and Syria
Stop them in both places (47)
Race relations in America
The lessons of Ferguson (59)
Monetary policy
Be bold, Mario (8)
Tropical forests
Seeing the wood (1)

■Letters
On Ronald Reagan, trade, history, elective terms, freedom, Israel, New Hampshire, expats, parenting, meetings
Letters to the editor (2)

■United States
The Ferguson riots
Overkill (57)
American schools
The new white minority (2)
The indictment of Rick Perry
Criminalising politics (1)
Alaska’s Senate primary
Chilly oil
Housing in Los Angeles
LA storeys (4)
The politics of beer
Howling for a growler (6)
Lexington
The trouble with electing judges (3)

■The Americas
Fighting crime in Mexico
The Feds ride out
Oil in Canada
Crude errors (4)
Brazil’s presidential campaign
The third way (5)
Shale gas in Argentina
Dead-cow bounce (1)

■Essay
China and the world
What China wants

■Asia
Indian politics
Early days (8)
Protests in Pakistan
Nighttime happenings
Singapore’s politics
Cracks in the façade (1)
Politics in the Philippines
My bosses, my muse
Kazakhstan
Steaks from the steppe

■China
Rural schools
Down and out in rural China (3)
Politics in Hong Kong
Learning from the enemy (1)
Literacy
Bad characters (3)
Banyan
The pontiff and the party (2)

■Middle East and Africa
Iraq, Syria and the Islamic State
A war that crosses national boundaries (47)
Iraq’s would-be prime minister
The hottest seat
The Yazidis
Finding new friends (6)
Chaos in Libya
A mystery air raid (4)
South Africa’s judiciary
Court battles (2)
Africa’s population
Can it survive such speedy growth? (5)
Child brides in west Africa
Girls fight back

■Europe
Ukraine and Russia
Battering on (103)
The Eurasian Union
The other EU (2)
Serbia’s foreign policy
Divided loyalties (4)
French education
Bac blues
Ireland and abortion
Flaring up (1)
Spain and the Catalans
Scandal in Catalonia (13)

■Britain
Treating mental illness
Body and soul (2)
Britain in Iraq
Cameron’s confusions (1)
Clandestine migration
Waiting for a break Britain Only (2)
Police cameras
Kojak moments Britain Only
Music festivals
Muddy tunes Britain Only (1)
Political rhetoric
Those soaring balloonists Britain Only (1)
Recruitment
Bad forms Britain Only (2)
Bagehot
The great game
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■International
Tropical forests
A clearing in the trees
Afforestation in China
Great Green Wall

■Business
Business in Nigeria
Africa’s testing ground (9)
Trust-busting in China
Unequal before the law? (10)
Music and shopping
Beware of Beethoven
Governing partnerships
Electing the boss
Farming in the Netherlands
Polder and wiser (1)
Obamacare and business
Paternalism 2.0 (3)
Schumpeter
Got skills? (1)

■Finance and economics
The foreign-exchange market
Fixed rates
Bank settlements
Goodbye to all that (4)
Calculating European GDP
Changing the scales
Polish banks
Lucky lenders (1)
Longevity risk
My money or your life (2)
The Philippine economy
Coming up jasmine (1)
Free exchange
Revisiting Ricardo (1)

■Science and technology
Oceans and the climate
Davy Jones’s heat locker (90)
Biometrics
Clocking people’s clocks (1)
Crime and poverty
To have and have not (8)
Disease transmission
Seals of doom

■Books and arts
China in Africa
Empire of the sums
Venetian history
Travails of a modern city
Vittore Carpaccio
Venetian love affair
The history of Texas
Clinging to religion
Innovation
It takes two
New film
Two days, one night, no fuss (1)

■Obituary
Obituary
Pierre Ryckmans (2)

■Economic and financial indicators
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