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The world this week
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Business
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Leaders

The deal over Gaza
A new beginning for the Middle East
The breakthrough in Gaza could open up a new approach to peace

The costs of confinement
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America
The pain from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Sanae Takaichi celebrates after winning the LDP leadership election
Metallic maiden
Japanese politics enters its heavy-metal phase
Takaichi Sanae is a refreshing change—but problems loom
An illustration of a screen with a dollar sign in it and surrounded by eyes, the Earth and slocking arrows.
Crime shouldn’t pay
Cybercrime is afflicting big business. How to lessen the pain
Banning the payment of ransoms would be a start
Collage of African political men.
Big men mean big trouble
Africa’s leaders-for-life offer a warning to the world
The longer autocrats stay in power, the worse they become

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is Morocco practising a strange sort of colonialism?
By Invitation

After the Manchester synagogue attack
Rising antisemitism reflects wider social ills, says Britain’s former counter-terrorism co-ordinator
Briefing
Celebrations in Tel Aviv after Gaza peace deal announcement.
Deliverance
Israel and Hamas agree to the first phase of Donald Trump’s peace plan
But neither side is fully reconciled to what is supposed to come next
Asia
This illustration shows Sanae Takaichi in a blue suit with pearl jewelry, and gold earrings, set against a bold red background with white elements
Drum roll
Meet Japan’s “Fireball”, Takaichi Sanae, its polarising new leader
Critical minerals in South Asia
The global gold boom’s $150bn final frontier: Pakistan
In a state
Will this experiment fix India’s Silicon Valley?
Banyan
What rich Indians fear
China
Employees work on the production line of Jiangsu Poppula Semiconductor Co., Ltd
Industrial strategy
Xi Jinping is personally involved in China’s new five-year plan
Hey, big spenders!
China’s industrial largesse may cost it $370bn a year in lost output
China’s new K-visa
China’s H-1B-visa alternative excites interest abroad—but fury at home
Chaguan
Chinese officials boast a god’s-eye view of towns from above
United States
A U.S. soldier watches the southern border from a high vantage point near Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
All quiet on the southern front
Donald Trump is victorious at the southern border
Forcing mechanism
Blame, strategising and America’s government shutdown
Farmageddon
Agriculture faces a MAGA reckoning
Best served hot
What American voters really think of the revenge agenda
Tail risk
A data-rich look at New York’s battle against rats
Smash doors, smash subscribe
What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

The Americas
Portrait of Mark Carney
The Player of Games
Mark Carney’s radical vision for handling Trumpian America
Currency chaos
The Argentine peso, and Javier Milei, are in trouble
Soy boys
American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient
Middle East & Africa

Leaders for life
The new age of the African Big Man
Mobilising in Mozambique
TotalEnergies leads the dash for Africa’s new oil and gas
A problem from hell
The forgotten horror of Western Tigray
Europe
A microphone is set up in the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon in Paris
French politics
Macron seeks to buy time with a new prime minister
The war over energy
Ukraine’s hellfire is intensifying the Kremlin’s fuel crisis
Systemic and widespread
Russia is torturing its Ukrainian captives
Czechs voted
The comeback of Andrej Babis
Charlemagne
“Brussels” is the phantom menace Europe loves to blame
Britain
Britain's Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch’s Milei model
The stricken Tories reach for the chainsaw
Leadership stakes
Who might be Britain’s next prime minister?
Jolly sad
Britain mourns its bonkbuster queen
Steel tariffs
A dangerous post-Brexit world
Shocking, but not surprising
British Jews and police work closely together to prevent attacks
Selling beer
What J D Wetherspoon understands about the British pub
Bagehot
Meet the real opposition
International
A rental e-bike is seen parked in a pedestrian area outside the National Gallery in London
Four wheels good, two wheels better
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
The Telegram
Europe struggles to put homeland defence first
1843

Russia
The Kremlin put her on trial. She stole the show
Business
Illustration of a man in business attire being interrogated by shadowy officials in a smoky room with a large portrait of Xi Jinping in the background
China’s missing bosses
The sinister disappearance of China’s bosses
No small beer
Businesses are grappling with a wave of cybercrime
Posh holidays
Luxury goods are out, but luxury travel is in
Liquid assets
Bottled water is going upmarket
Unbossing it
Bonfire of the middle managers
Bartleby
A short guide to white-collar warfare
Schumpeter
What if OpenAI went belly-up?
Finance & economics
A descending brick wall with a hard hat toppling down and a worker walking off
Building up trouble
Welcome to Zero Migration America
The levy paradox
Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade
Development
Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth
Far from finished
Front-line economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours
Buttonwood
The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet
Free exchange
The stockmarket is fuelling America’s economy
Science & technology
An illustration of the Nobel Prize gold medal in the centre repeated in black and white to the left and right surrounded by references to scientific research
The 2025 science Nobels
This year’s Nobel laureates have now been announced
Insect migration
Hover flies are long-distance travellers
Look at me!
AI video: more than just “slop”
Well informed
Is dark chocolate actually healthy?
Culture
a loading screen with a palm tree and swords.
Pixel diplomacy
How Saudi Arabia became a video-game superpower
The hatred that will not die
What people talk about when they talk about antisemitism
A brush with fame
Is there anything left to say about Frida Kahlo?
American fiction
Thomas Pynchon returns with a tale of Nazis, spies—and cheese
Bawdy ballads by bots
X-rated, AI-generated country songs are taking over the internet
Back Story
“One Battle After Another” wins the war
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Jane Goodall with chimpanzee David Greybeard, 1965
Of chimps and men
Jane Goodall spent her life telling humans to honour animals