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Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon



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｡he world this week
Iraq
Iraq starts to fix itself
Colombia
The end of illusion and the last guerrilla
Turkey
A tragedy in the making
The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank
Hawk alert
Executive pay
Let the fight begin


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｡eaders
On international banking, text-messaging, European corruption, Thailand and the Philippines, distances in America

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｡etters
The change in Iraq
Is it turning the corner?
The American election and Iraq
The war for the White House

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｡pecial Report
The new Democratic establishment
Who's who in Obamaworld
The economy
The battle of the pockets is joined
The Democrats unite
All together now
Al Franken
Lighten up
California politics
The anti-governator
Innovation
What crisis?
The border
Fighting the fence
Lexington
Such sweet sorrow


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｡nited States
Hugo Chｨ｢vez
Master tactician or failing bungler?
Argentina's way with sums
Hocus-pocus
Cuba
High-speed escape
Aboriginals in Canada
Finding their voice


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｡he Americas
Populist politics in China
Why Grandpa Wen has to care
China and Taiwan
Strait talking again
Teaching in English in Hong Kong
The cat got your mother tongue?
Pakistan's economy
Stopping the rot
Japan
Yasuo Fukuda's Lazarus moment
The war on terror
Friendless fire
South Korea
Ill met by candlelight
Kazakhstan
Capital idea for a present


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｡iddle East & Africa
Ethiopia
Will it ever be able to stave off starvation?
South Africa
After the storm
Congo
It's all relative
Algeria
Richer but still nervous
Israel
Discord as the band plays on


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｡urope
Turkey
Beyond the veil
The Ruhr
A region revived
Germany's Christian Democrats
The Rｨｹttgers effect
Italy's centre-left
Appeasement
Russian reform
White nights
Charlemagne
Fishy tales


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｡ritain
The Bank of England
Credibility at stake
Tory resignation
Davis blows his top
Detention without charge
Home and dry, just
The poor
Always with us


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｡nternational
Islam and the West
When religions talk


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｡usiness
Executive pay in Europe
Pay attention
Say on pay in America
Fair or foul?
Apple
Follow the leader
Europe's energy market
Better than nothing?
Porsche and Volkswagen
See you in court
Beer
Hands off our Bud
Private education
The Swedish model
Face value
From across the divide


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｡pecial Report
The trouble with pensions
Falling short


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｡inance & Economics
Global markets
Too hot or too cold?
Buttonwood
Let them heat coke
Money-market funds
A boom amid the bust
Hedge funds
The counterparty's over
International banks
Overstretched and over there
Bank liquidity
Litterbin of last resort
International taxation
America's Berlin Wall
Economics focus
Control freaks


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｡cience & Technology
Consumer fuel cells
In search of forever
Evolution and genetics
The misfits
Genetic archaeology
Mammoths
Swimsuit technology
Making no waves


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｡ooks & Arts
Walking in Palestine
Lost land
Machineguns
A little Gatling music
Hedge funds
The Lo down
New fiction
Falling planes and poisoned swords
Philosophy and sociology
Bored by philosophy
Antiquities
The great heritage war


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｡bituary
Jack Simplot
Economic and

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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Capital flows to developing countries
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Leading centres of commerce