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Work and the young
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Italy
Red Letta day (13)
Chemical weapons in Syria
Acid test (138)
Cyprus
Divided they fall (38)

■Letters
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■Briefing
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Malaysia
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■United States
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After the marathon bombing
Terrible swift sword (20)
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College sports
Fair or foul? (19)
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Lexington
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■The Americas
Paraguay’s elections
Return of the Colorados (2)
Power in Argentina
Now for the courts
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Playing for time (1)

■Asia
Pakistan’s hopeful general election
The N is nigh (51)
Withdrawing from Afghanistan
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Small-scale mining in Indonesia
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Japan and its neighbours
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The Bay of Bengal
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■China
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Feeling your pain (3)
The new Rhodes scholars?
Young China hands (8)
A continued infrastructure boom
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Banyan
Can’t buy me soft power (18)

■Middle East and Africa
Power struggle in Iran
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Iran’s multiplicity of messiahs
You’re a fake (6)
Iraq’s bloody election
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Nigeria’s northern insurgency
Ever bloodier (1)
Syria’s civil war
Yet another massacre (5)
Chemical weapons in Syria
Crossing a red line (31)

■Europe
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Serbia and Kosovo
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Chechnya and Dagestan
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Charlemagne
Amsterdam, Nice, Lisbon… (16)

■Britain
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Protein shakes
Bruising (6)
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Bagehot
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■International
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McDonald’s University
Fries with that? (9)

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Apple
Tim Cook’s cash card (3)
Schumpeter
Titans of innovation (1)
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■Finance and economics
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Through a glass, darkly (7)
The Twitter crash
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Europe’s financial-transactions tax
Oops (8)
China’s economy
Perverse advantage (25)
Derivatives reform in America
Swapping bad ideas (3)
Buttonwood
Don’t just do something, sit there (4)
Zimbabwe after hyperinflation
In dollars they trust
Free exchange
The debt to pleasure (22)
Correction: Federal Reserve

■Science and technology
3D printing
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Treating cancer with radioactive bacteria
Three wrongs make a right (5)
Private space flight
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Entomology
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■Books and arts
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America and the second world war
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Secularism
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Butterflies in America
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