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▼On the cover

Six days of war followed by 40 years of misery. How can it ever end? leader


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▼The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon


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▼Leaders
Israel and the Palestinians
Israel's wasted victory
The UN and Iran
Playing with fallout Requires subscription
Financial exchanges
Making the future Requires subscription
America's proposed immigration reform
Better than nothing Requires subscription
British schools
The S-word Requires subscription


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▼Letters
On America's political system, Dow Jones, Nigeria, wireless networks, Tony Blair


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▼Special Report
Marriage in America
The frayed knot
Israel and the Palestinians
Forty years on


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▼United States
Immigration
Of fences and visas
Iraq
Pulling the pull-out
The World Trade Centre
The super cracks it
Guantánamo
Easier to open than to close
Coal
Battle of the mountain tops
Michael Moore
Sickohim?
Lexington
The politics of plenty


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▼The Americas
The Canadian Arctic
Anxiously watching a different world
The Caribbean
Fission
Mexico
Youthful in Yucatán


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▼Asia
The world's worst holiday destination
North Korea through Chinese eyes
Japan
Abe's bounce
Indian politics
Saffron fading
Asia's last lions
More of a whimper
Myanmar
Dirty dealings
Kazakhstan
Kazakhbashi


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▼Middle East & Africa
Lebanon
The cauldron may bubble over again
Algeria
Sour and prickly
Nigeria
New government, old problems
Ghana
Bankruptcy and burials
The International Criminal Court
More suspects in its sights
South Africa
The name game
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▼Europe
France's new government
A study in perpetual motion
French foreign policy
The Kouchner effect
Romania and Bulgaria
Losers take all
Russia and dissent
Old habits, new hypocrisy
Germany's depressed east
Blossoming landscapes
Spain's local elections
The peace test
Charlemagne
Constitutional conundrums


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▼Britain
Relations with Russia
Out of reach
End of an era
Energy policy
More heat than light
Planning shake-up
So much for localism
Bagehot
Last call

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▼International
Cyberwarfare
Newly nasty
Internet history
Greatest hits
Humanitarian aid
Weighed and found wanting
Whaling
Sharpening their harpoons


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▼Business
European companies
Giants forced to dance
Conglomerates
I don't love Jeff
America's clean-tech clusters
Venture capitals
Tourism in Greenland
Global warming's boom town
Microsoft
Truth in advertising
Mobile phones
Screen savers
Canada's oil boom
Building on sand
Hobbies
Scrap mania
Face value
Africa calling


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▼Special Report
Financial exchanges
Buy, buy, buy


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▼Finance & Economics
Sovereign-wealth funds
The world's most expensive club
The OECD and fiscal policy
Words of warning
Buttonwood
Painting by numbers
Hedge-fund regulation
The heavy brigade
UniCredit
The Profumo flair
Economics focus
The great wall of money


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▼Science & Technology
Mass extinctions
It came like yesterday
Synaesthesia
Too well connected
Synthetic biology
Gassed up
Viagra and jet lag
Mile-high hamsters


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▼Books & Arts
The six-day war
Jews and Prussians Requires subscription
Garibaldi
An idol of his own design
Thomas Bewick
Plain man's art Requires subscription
New fiction
The resilience of women Requires subscription
American weddings
Beware the bridezilla monster Requires subscription
Self-portraits
How they wanted to be seen Requires subscription
New fiction
Life under the shadow Requires subscription


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▼Obituary
Malietoa Tanumafili II


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▼Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Hungary
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
GDP growth forecasts
Markets