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｡n the cover
For all General Petraeus's spin, Iraq is still a violent mess. That is why America should not leave yet



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｡he world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
Leaders


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｡eaders
The Iraq war
Why they should stay
Pakistan
The wrong direction
Japan
The trouble with one-party rule
America's economy
It ain't easy
OPEC
Sheikh up


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｡etters
On genetics and insurance, peace in the Middle East, Princess Diana, holidays, forest fires, Nicolas Sarkozy

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｡pecial Report
Pakistan
Home and away

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｡nited States
America and Iraq
The general speaks
Presidential politics
The celebrity primary
Broadband internet
Wiring rural America
The border
Free trade and fireballs
Environmentalism and building
Green as houses
Solar power
Trapping sunlight
Lexington
Presumed guilty


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｡he Americas
Felipe Calderｨｮn
Mexico's teetering president
Canada
A haven for villains
Panama's Manuel Noriega
French leave


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｡sia
Japan
Abe leaves the stage
The Philippines
Beyond impunity
Cambodia
Innocence for sale
Sex education in the land of the Kama Sutra
The birds, the bees and the taboos
Inflation in China
An old worry nags again


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｡iddle East & Africa
Iraq
Please go, some time
Israel and Syria
Mysterious happenings
Israel
Home-grown Nazis
Iran
In the crossfire
Zimbabwe
Checkmate for the archbishop
Zimbabwe
Blackening the economy
Niger
A radioactive rebellion


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｡urope
Russia's government
Comrade Who?
Sweden, one year on
Moderate revolution
Muhammad cartoons in Scandinavia
Gone to the dogs
Italy's public finances
Taxing
The Romanian Orthodox Church
Crowned with thorns
Charlemagne
Enter, pursued by a bear

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｡ritain
Labour and the unions
Down tools, lads
NHS audit
Big spender, unwise spender

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｡nternational
Terrorism
Visions of Osama bin Laden
Boycotting Israel
New pariah on the block
Media
Emerging journalism
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｡usiness
European energy
Breaking up is hard to do
The car industry
The road ahead
Mobile phones
From iPhone to gPhone?
The internet
Not losing Facebook in China
Software
Liquid concrete
Business and society
Green made good
Face value
Tough Ghosn


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｡pecial Report
Algorithms
Business by numbers
Big sums
Of greed and ants


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｡inance & Economics
Currencies
Another shoe to drop
Gold
The bears' lair
Commercial paper
Unscrambling the eggs
Buttonwood
The profits puzzle
Bank investors
Fundamentalism
Bank mergers
Three's company
China's stock exchanges
Selling out?
Economics focus
Houses built on sand
Correction: Standard & Poor's


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｡cience & Technology
Neurodegenerative disease
Trashing the brain
Diet and hyperactivity
Food for thought
Space
Eyes on the prize
Female genital mutilation
A cut less cruel
Exoplanets
Survivor


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｡ooks & Arts
The cold war
A history of lost opportunities
An assessment of Tony Blair
The politics of trust
Statistics
Don't panic
New novel
Sweet and smart
Automated decision-making
The death of expertise
Turkish music
In memory of the Ottoman court
London's Learned Societies
Uproar at the aviary


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｡bituary
Luciano Pavarotti
Economic and Financial

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｡conomic and Financial Indicators

Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Foreign direct investment inflows
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global political risk, September 2007