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◆On the cover
A world without nuclear weapons
A nuclear-free world may never come about, but there can be safety in trying

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


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◆Leaders
Getting to zero
Safe without the bomb?
America, Europe and Turkey
Talking Turkey
The G20 and the IMF
Banking on the fund
Water rights
Awash in waste
Banks and accounting standards
Messenger, shot


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◆Letters
On the pope, illegal immigrants, advertising, China and the IMF, Iran, accounting standards, the Disability Rights Commission, aircraft, Barack Obama


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◆Special Report
North Korea's rocket
Making a splash


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◆United States
Barack Obama's foreign policy
Two cheers and a jeer
Defence budget
A daring punt
Oakland
Killing for respect
Conservation
Prairie in the city
Volunteering
A service nation
Transport systems
Slower than a speeding bullet
Gay marriage
Wedding season
Lexington
Reflections on Virginia Tech


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◆The Americas
The Summit of the Americas
The ghost at the conference table
The trial of Alberto Fujimori
An elected strongman brought to book
Venezuela's endangered democracy
Revolutionary justice
Chagas disease
Kiss and kill


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◆Asia
Sri Lanka's war
Out of the Tigers' cage
Pakistan's extremists
The slide downhill
Afghanistan's new militias
Self-defence
Chinese unemployment
Where will all the students go?
China and the G20
Taking the summit by strategy
Banyan
In the shade of the banyan tree


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◆Middle East & Africa
The genocide in Rwanda
The difficulty of trying to stop it happening ever again
Nigeria
What if the president goes?
Southern Sudan
Fear of fragmentation
Iranian dissidents in Iraq
Where will they all go?
Getting paid in Iraq
Press the button
Correction: South Africa


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◆Europe
An earthquake in Italy
Death in the mountains
Turkey and Barack Obama
Friends by the Bosporus
France and America
Allies of a kind
Denmark's prime ministers
Rasmussens abound
The troubled Baltics
Still afloat in the Baltic, just
Spain’s government
Shuffle, shuffle
Charlemagne
A surfeit of leaders


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◆Britain
Local-government finances
Bust in the boonies
Council budgets
Less is more
Allotments
Take this job and shovel it
The Catholic church
Time for a bruiser


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◆International
Water
Sin aqua non
Climate change
When glaciers start moving

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◆Business
Activist investors
Flight of the locusts
New vehicles
General Motors' strange new prototype
Spanish companies
Big in America?
Energy in Japan
Raising the stakes
American broadcasting
The not-so-big four
Edible advertisements
Trading licks
European defence
Heavy going
Face value
Sauce of success


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◆Special Report
The IMF
Mission: possible
Special Drawing Rights
Held in reserve


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◆Finance & Economics
Financial markets
Whistling in the dark
Buttonwood
Spin and substance
Trade finance
The cavalry of commerce
The Federal Reserve
Sacred territory
Indian banks
For I'm a jolly good fellow
Japanese banks
A capital affair
Psychology and trading
Stress testing
Economics focus
Cycle-proof regulation
Marjorie Deane internship


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◆Science & Technology
Malaria
Resistance is useless
The environment
Biofools
Pre-Cambrian life
The dawn of the animals
Neurology
Wired


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◆Books & Arts
Energy and climate change
Meltdown
Islam and the West
What to think?
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
An African first
Lessons from ants
Wisdom of crowds
Dorothy Wordsworth
Woman on the edge
The baroque
High notes and curlicues


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◆Obituary
Helen Levitt

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, April averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Dutch flower auctions