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■Leaders
Germany and Europe
The indispensable European (440)
China and Taiwan
Talk strait (25)
The Republican Party
Clean-cut radicals (26)
Heroin addiction
How to smack it down (16)
Family planning in China
Two little, too late (35)

■Letters
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Letters to the editor

■Briefing
Angela Merkel
The chancellor’s crucible (19)

■United States
The Republicans
The trouble with being right (158)
White America’s mid-life crisis
Unseen killer (128)
Obamacare
Take three (8)
Property in San Francisco
Golden gates (11)
Guns in universities
Revenge of the nerds (33)
Energy policy and the states
Mostly over bar the shouting
Sea snakes
Fangs a lot (4)
Lexington
Move over, Grover (2)

■The Americas
Mexico’s economy
Shopping therapy (4)
Canada’s Inuit
Easier said than written (5)
Bello
The politician as thinker (4)
Correction: Struggling to stay afloat

■Asia
Cross-strait relations
Hands across the water (160)
China’s offensive charm
Reef knots (2)
Bangladesh
Fear in the shadows (1)
Vanuatu
Pardon me (1)
Australia and Britain’s monarchy
Knightmare’s end (31)
Banyan
Intolerable (19)

■China
Population control
Now, the two-child policy
Family planning in Xinjiang
Remote control (4)
Singles day
Bare and profligate (3)

■Middle East and Africa
Industrialisation in Africa
More a marathon than a sprint (18)
Health care in Kenya
Vegetables, not samosas (7)
Urban traffic
Paralysed (3)
Just one catch
Black gold under the Golan (65)
A Russian plane crashes in Sinai
Two crackdowns expected (125)

■Europe
Russia’s Sergei Shoigu
Master of emergencies (6)
Tuva’s cultural history
Let me hear your khoomei ringing out (1)
Arrests at the Vatican
Church of the poor judgment (2)
Turkey’s AK party
Another victory for illiberalism (33)
Charlemagne
The dispensable French (42)

■Britain
The environment
Less green and pleasant (5)
Wild salmon
Floundering (1)
The war against Islamic State
A vote postponed (7)
Surveillance
To MI5 with love Britain Only (20)
Regional newspapers
Stop press Britain Only (1)
Independent schools
Marked down Britain Only
The Highlands and Islands
Man on Scotland’s conscience Britain Only
Turning over a new leaf
A 5,000-year-old tree changes sex Britain Only (9)
Bagehot
Let battle commence! (13)
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■International
Planning for El Niño
Disaster foretold (66)
Indonesia’s forest fires
Burning questions

■Business
Silicon Valley’s startup boom
Y Combinator, the X Factor of tech (4)
Hewlett-Packard
Growing old, but not together (10)
Cyber-security
The cost of immaturity (2)
Data breaches in America
The rise of the hacker (1)
Pharmaceuticals
Drug-fuelled couplings (2)
Volkswagen’s emissions scandal
Fuel on the fire (50)
New aircraft
Take-off delayed (133)
Video games
A crush on mobile (4)
Schumpeter
Not-so-happy returns (11)

■Finance and economics
The Securities and Exchange Commission
Pots and kettles (2)
Buttonwood
Age may well wither them (7)
Recapitalising Greek banks
The damage
Tax evasion
The mega-haven (5)
The yuan and the SDR
Feeling special (1)
The OPEC of maple syrup
A sticky situation (7)
Property in Sweden
Home is where the heartache is (3)
Free exchange
The Japanese solution (7)

■Science and technology
Driving in old age
Hell’s grannies (11)
Spaceplanes
SABRE-rattling
Renewable energy
Waving good buy? (1)
Sexual selection and evolution
My pretty maid (3)
Religion and altruism
Matthew 22:39 (82)

■Books and arts
Alexander von Humboldt
Man of the world (2)
Military hubris
Their own worst enemy (3)
Foggy days
Grey and dreichy
Italian politics
He’s back (2)
20th-century American art
Modern man (1)

■Obituary
Obituary: Günter Schabowski
One little word (5)

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