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｡n the cover
China's hunger for natural resources is causing more problems at home than abroad



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


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｡eaders
China
The new colonialists
Tax
Not now, Darling
Credit crunch
Plugging holes
Malaysia's election
The no-colour revolution
Spain's election
Zap back


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｡etters
On America's primary elections, Japan, Israel, Russia, Jersey, potatoes, the world

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｡pecial Report
London and Paris
The rivals


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｡nited States
Exports and the economy
A few good machines
Tourism
Bargain-hunting
The Democrats
Getting fratricidal
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Health care
No relief on the right
Illinois Democrats
Striking at the red heart
Water rows in the South
Take them to the river
City planning
Harlem reborn
Lexington
The hypocrites' club

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｡he Americas
Colombia and its neighbours
Peace in our time, on the box
AIDS in Brazil
A portrait in red
Canada
Please buy our dirty oil
The Caribbean
Crown and Anchor

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｡sia
Malaysia's election upset
Anwar overturns the apple cart
The internet and Malaysian politics
The perils of modernity
Pakistan's politics
The lion lies down with the lamb
India and Pakistan
He came in from the cold
The death penalty in Japan
Just plead guilty and die
The My Lai massacre 40 years on
Not quite forgotten
Taiwan
Where a common market is divisive
Demonstrations in Tibet
Monks on the march


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｡iddle East & Africa
Israel and the Arabs
Bracing for the big one
Sudan
Peacekeepers into the fray
Uganda
Might the Lord's Resisters give up?
Kenya
A new dawn amid the golf carts
Mali
Mud, glorious mud


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｡urope
The Franco-German relationship
The awkward partners
Ireland's prime minister
Ahern at bay
Spain's election
Back｡ｪto a new challenge
Italy's election
Bridges and other promises
Serbia's politics
Election time
Poland's economy
Work in progress
Charlemagne
The parable of the presidents

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｡ritain
Public finances
Boxed in, fingers crossed
Environmental taxes
Hot air
Shake-up at M&S
A Rose by any other name
Adam Smith
Monumental profits


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｡nternational
The UN's oil-for-food scandal
Rolling up the culprits
The illegal weapons trade
Suited and booted

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｡usiness
Business in Russia
The meaning of Norilsk
Media
Mogul v mogul
Yahoo!'s options
Deconstructing Jerry
Industry in China
Where is everybody?
Business in emerging economies
The stay-at-home giants
Law firms
Legal problems
Industrial relations
On strike, virtually
Face value
Woman of steel


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｡pecial Report
Economics and the rule of law
Order in the jungle


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｡inance & Economics
Credit markets
If at first you don't succeed
Buttonwood
Privates on parade
Welfare economics
When bribery pays
Central bank interventions
Bonding session
Commodities
Shooting up
Chinese inflation
Sweet and sour pork
Banks and climate change
The greening of Wall Street
Economics focus
Grossly distorted picture
Internship


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｡cience & Technology
Traffic jams
Turn left. No right. I mean left
Military health
War of nerves
Cell therapy
No knee-jerk reaction
Pest control
The year of the no-rats?
Pester power
Sob story


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｡ooks & Arts
Invading Iraq
Eyeing the wages of war
Irrational fear
No good at risk
New theatre
Iraq on the stage
20th-century literature
Striving for the spirit
AIDS in South Africa
A testing journey
Chinese art in Florence
Dainty, ferocious and extravagant


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｡bituary
Gary Gygax

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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Consumer prices in the OECD
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Iceland