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■Leaders
The decline and fall of General Motors
Detroitosaurus wrecks
Gordon Brown
Where will it end?
Barack Obama and the Middle East
Tell it straight
Russia's ailing economy
Red square blues
The unloved European Parliament
From Strasbourg with indifference

■Letters
On small businesses, newspapers, California, Britain, Kuwait, Jeffrey Sachs, Crossrail, vroomtones

■Briefing
Russia's economy
A new sick man

■United States
The future of health-care reform
The moment of truth
The murder of George Tiller
Life v choice
Primaries in Washington state
The centrist north-west
Soaring gun sales in Arizona
Planning for the worst
Gun laws in Tennessee
Bread, milk, handgun
Statewatch: Indiana
A hobbled march forward
Lexington
Blue-collar America

■The Americas
Brazil's poor schools
Still a lot to learn
Argentina's Kirchners and the media
Bad news for some
Mexico tackles drug abuse
Breaking the habit
Cuba brings in austerity measures
Flickering lights

■Asia
Australia's carbon-emissions trading scheme
Coals from Newcastle
Dissent in China
A stab at reform
Hong Kong's identity crisis
Feeling special
Pakistan's war in Swat
After the exodus
The human cost of Sri Lanka's war
Too many heroes
The Philippines and the English language
E for English
Banyan
Does the elephant dance?

■Middle East & Africa
Barack Obama speaks to the Muslim world
Let's be friends
Iran's presidential election
No certain outcome
Palestinian disunity
No cause for joy
Zimbabwe's power-sharing government
The struggle goes on
Eritrea rebuked by Africa
From renaissance leader to pariah

■Europe
The apathetic European election
Wanted: a vigorous debate
Spain's troubled prime minister
Zapped
A European election guide
The checklist
Italy's centre-right leadership
Fini to the fore
Silvio Berlusconi's scandal
Scuttlebutt
Charlemagne
Lonely at the top

■Britain
Gordon Brown on the brink
Praying for time
The future of the railways
Pay up, pay up, and board the train
Extending freedom of information
Uncovering the next scandal
Assisted suicide and the law
Hard cases
Britain's grim outlook for jobs
Out of work and out of luck [Britain only]
Jobcentre Plus in the recession
Leaning against the wind [Britain only]
Reshaping financial supervision
Flood warning [Britain only]
Bagehot
The postman rings twice

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■International
The United States and Islam
Let nations speak peace
Banning bomb materials and bomb tests
Making a start
Development aid from authoritarian regimes
An (iron) fistful of help

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Third time lucky
Monitor
Very handy
Monitor
Red tape in orbit
Monitor
Running on air
Monitor
Spies in the sky
Monitor
Dot Mars
Monitor
On the pulse
Monitor
Zap!
Monitor
Taken your medicine?
Monitor
Mapping a better world
Monitor
A stitch in time
Rational consumer
With a little help...
Energy
Building the smart grid
Automotive technology
The connected car
Solar-thermal technology
The other kind of solar power
Mobile phones
Sensors and sensitivity
Photoacoustic imaging
The sound of light
Brain scan
Father of the cell phone
Offer to readers

■Business
Mining mergers
Prospects for a thaw
Gambling in Macau
Nightmare averted
Succession at Samsung
Crowning success
Advertisers go on the attack
Heated arguments
Renewable energy in Italy
Going with the wind
A Hippocratic oath for managers
Forswearing greed
Face value
Ka-pow!
Correction: ACS and Iberdrola

■Briefing
The bankruptcy of General Motors
A giant falls
Saving GM Europe
Hope for Opel

■Finance and economics
Central banks' exit strategies
This way out
Buttonwood
Raw deal
Global house prices
Bottom fishing
Banks and private equity
Return of the grave-dancers
Questioning the Hawthorne effect
Light work
Economics focus
In the blood

■Science & Technology
Warfare, culture and human evolution
Blood and treasure
Early detection of arthritis
Painful predictions
Fraud in science
Liar! Liar!
Replacing chrome
Shine on me

■Books & Arts
Matthew Glass's “Ultimatum”
Tidal fear
Peter Peterson
America's fiscal Cassandra
Isaiah Berlin
Centennial impressions
Iraq’s children
Saving the orphans
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Note taker
Orange prize for fiction
Francesca prima
Correction: Lynn Nottage

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Pattabhi Jois

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In his zeal to fix capitalism, Barack Obama must not stifle America's dynamism: leader

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Government and business in America
Piling on
North Korea's nuclear spectacular
Kim Jong Il's bombshell
Fighting the Pakistani Taliban
A necessary catastrophe
China, America and the yuan
Time for a Beijing bargain
Computing
Unlocking the cloud

Letters
On animal testing, the news, New Orleans, northern Cyprus, Israel, boss-napping, Thatcherism, Tom Joad, MPs' expenses

Briefing
Government v market in America
The visible hand

United States
Barack Obama's Supreme Court choice
Scrutinising Sonia
The Guant疣amo row
Cross purposes
Cities and their deficits
Staring into the abyss
Detroit's new mayor
Baptism by five-alarm fire
Gourmandise in New England
The baguettes can stay
Lexington
Tough enough?

The Americas
Canada's relations with the United States
Stop, border ahead
Mexico's deep recession
Not made here
Drug gangs in Canada
British Columbia or Colombia?
Argentina's farming in crisis
Parched earth, empty barns
Chile's coming presidential election
Winds of change

Asia
North Korea's nuclear test
On mushroom cloud two
Japanese politics
Noh debate
Pakistan's borderland war
Swatting militants
India's new government
A well-made cabinet
Sri Lanka's war
After the slaughter
Nepal's political crisis
Mr Nepal lucks out
Twenty years after Tiananmen
Silence on the square
Banyan
The party goes on

Middle East & Africa
Lebanon's election
Will the shaky equilibrium hold?
Israel and its Arabs
No, you can't say that
Iraq's Kurdish oil
Kurdistan goes glug glug
Sierra Leone and its diamonds
Digging in the dumps
Fighting in Nigeria's Delta
Getting desperate
Africa's economies in the downturn
Prudence can win

Europe
Nicolas Sarkozy and France's opposition
All the president's enemies
Poland's legacy of 1989
Still in the soup
German history and the Stasi
The gunshot that hoaxed a generation
Political turmoil in Georgia
The opposition locks itself up, and out
Charlemagne
The worst of times, the best of times

Britain
Britain's relationship with Europe
Out of sight, out of mind
The march of Euroscepticism
More want less
Tense times as elections loom
Testing the water
Oxford poets at war
Natural selection
Green shoots in garden centres
Blooms in the bust
Nurturing small businesses
Battery farm
Presbyterians and gay ministers
Swinging both ways
Bagehot
The baby with the moat water
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International
Amnesty International
Taking on the sins of the world Previous print editions

A special report on business in America
Surviving the slump
Trading down
Creative destruction
Red tape and scissors
Life is expensive
A green revolution
The fragile web of foreign trade
The coming recovery
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

Business
Indian firms' foreign purchases
Gone shopping
Chinese firms' foreign investments
Sino-Trojan horse
The bidding for GM Europe
The fight for Opel
ACS and Iberdrola
Tilting at windmills
Cost-cutting in Asia
A snip at the price
Open-source software in the recession
Born free
Face value
Ding dong! Empowerment calling

Briefing
Restraints on executive pay
Attacking the corporate gravy train

Finance and economics
Overhauling financial regulation
The regulatory rumble begins
Buttonwood
Not so risk-free
Lloyd's of London
Eggs and baskets
China's dubious earnings numbers
Red flags
Headaches for a hedge-fund manager
Good gRIEF
The Gulf's nascent bond market
Crisis and opportunity
Why banks sponsor sport
Play on
Economics focus
What's mine is yours

Science & Technology
The National Ignition Facility
On target, finally
The origin of swine flu
Putting the pieces together
The behavioural effects of video games
Good game?
Tool use by non-tool-using animals
Sticks and stones

Books & Arts
D-Day and the Normandy landings
The full version
Leonard Bernstein
A political life
Middle East diplomacy
Myths, illusions and peace
Alice Munro's short stories
A well-deserved win
Mark Kurlansky
America eats, belatedly
The Herg・museum
Totally Tintin

Obituary
Roh Moo-hyun

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Good news from India
The voters of the world's biggest democracy have given their government a precious second chance: leader

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After India's election
Good news: don't waste it
Emerging economies
Decoupling 2.0
Climate change and Congress
Weak medicine
The end of Sri Lanka's war
Tainted triumph
Land deals in Africa and Asia
Cornering foreign fields
Cleaning up Parliament
Political climate change

Letters
On MPs' expenses, Iranian dissidents, Chrysler, Nordic countries, genetic information, the Supreme Court

Briefing
India's election
Singh when you're winning

United States
America and climate change
Cap and trade, with handouts and loopholes
California's budget crisis
No gold in state
Shaun Donovan at HUD
Recovery begins at home
A terrorist plot in the Bronx
Foiled by the Feds
Prison costs and budget cuts
No more room, no more money
A mystery bat disease
Cute but contagious
Statewatch: Colorado
Scrambling out from under
Lexington
Read it and weep

The Americas
Crime and politics in Guatemala
An indictment from the grave
Brazil's supreme court
When less is more
Tax and the Cayman Islands
Grey skies in the Caribbean
Ecuador, Chevron and pollution
Justice or extortion?

Asia
The end of Sri Lanka's war
The corpse of the Tigers
Myanmar's beleaguered opposition
The isolation ward
Indonesia's presidential candidates
Sitting pretty
North Korea v South Korea
A merry dance
Taiwan's opposition
Street life
China's state broadcaster under fire
The pathetic fallacy
Banyan
May the good China preserve us

Middle East & Africa
Jihadists attack Somalia
Al-Qaeda on the march
Jacob Zuma's first South African test
Not a whiff of corruption is allowed
America grapples with Israel
What did Barack Obama truly feel?
Kuwait's mould-breaking election
It's hard to create a democracy

Europe
America, Europe and the western Balkans
Giving a shunt towards Europe
Lithuania's new president
Steel magnolia
Troubled euro-area economies
A slow thaw
Turkey's rebellious Kurds
Stone-throwers in glass houses
The Federal Republic at 60
A German anniversary
Charlemagne
Libertas or freedom?

Britain
The Commons speaker quits
Ordered out of office
Soldiers' human rights
The charge of the legal brigade
Dire days in commercial property
Still blighted
Fiscal stimulus in Jersey
Balancing ye bookes
Jon Cruddas
Thinking man's street-fighter
Crossrail v the Tube
Projects at war
Chris Woodhead on schools
Still raging
Bagehot
There won稚 be blood
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International
Buying farmland abroad
Outsourcing's third wave Previous print editions

Business
Small businesses in Europe
Humble but nimble
GM nears bankruptcy
Chapter 11 beckons
America's carmakers cull dealers
Open season
Publishing mergers in China
A new binding
Corporate raiders in Japan
Showdown
Distributing independent films
Saved by the box
Executive pay at Royal Dutch Shell
Muck, brass and spleen
Face value
The patient capitalist

Briefing
The outlook for the oil price
Bust and boom

Finance and economics
The world's best banks
A short list
Buttonwood
When bulls chase their tails
Japan's woeful GDP figures
That kitchen-sinking feeling
Credit cards in America
Knocked off balance
Monetary union in the Gulf
Disunited Arab Emirates
Is America still AAA?
N縊
Economics focus
The art of Chinese massage

Science & Technology
Satellites and global health
Remote diagnosis
Animal personalities
Unnatural selection
Thaliaceans and the carbon cycle
The jelly cycle
An early primate
Ida-olatry
Eczema's link to asthma
Breathe easy

Books & Arts
The industrial revolution
Supply and demand
The secret journal of Zhao Ziyang
Chinese whispers
Iran and the bomb
How late it is, how late
Business under Franco
The world of Eduardo Barreiros
Ronald Harwood
Plays on war
Lynn Nottage
Dramatises the Congo conflict

Obituary
Prabhakaran

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The banking industry
Three trillion dollars later...
The sea
An awkward absence
America and Israel
Don't hold back
Media
The rebirth of news
Parliamentary expenses
Moats and beams
Seal hunting
Political animals

Letters
On Jacob Zuma, Croatia, home ownership, Somali pirates, education, Greece, Machiavelli, economics

Briefing
The scramble for the seabed
Suddenly, a wider world below the waterline
Seabed mining
The unplumbed riches of the deep

United States
California
The ungovernable state
The federal budget
Phoney war
Gay marriage
Man and man in Maine
Prisoner abuse, continued
Bad publicity
New Orleans
City of sickness
Lexington
How to fix a party

The Americas
Presidential re-election in Colombia
Uribe edges towards autocracy
Venezuela's oil industry
Skint
Argentina's legislative election
Double or quits

Asia
Pakistan's war with the Taliban
Fleeing the battlefield
The war in Afghanistan
A general's marching orders
Sri Lanka's war
In blood steeped
Nepal's political crisis
Maoists required
The Sichuan earthquake
Salt in their wounds
Malaysian politics
Practising in Perak
Australia's budget
Stimulating stuff
Banyan
Creative destruction

Middle East & Africa
America's new diplomacy
Barack Obama, poised to plunge
Israel and America
Does he really want a deal?
A press row in Qatar
The limits to liberalisation
South Africa's new government
Who will call the economic shots?

Europe
Central and Eastern Europe
No panic, just gloom
Nazi war crimes
John Demjanjuk flies in
French prisons
Still miserable
Russia and its image
Put in more flags
Immigration in Italy
A mess in the Mediterranean
Greece and immigration
Fear and loathing in Athens
Charlemagne
Bulgarian rhapsody

Britain
Political expenses scandal
The great shaming of Parliament
The Bank of England's prognosis
Don't get your hopes up
Immigration and agriculture
No rural idyll
Saving the British pub
A murky tale
Fighting terrorism
Into the open
Measuring energy use
Knowledge is power
Bagehot
The atonement moment
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International
Pope Benedict
A chapter of accidents
The view from Brazil
An unruly bunch

A special report on international banking
Rebuilding the banks
Exit right
Don't blame Canada
From asset to liability
Too big to swallow
Opportunity gently knocks
The revolution within
Back at the branch
From great to good
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

Business
Corporate social responsibility
A stress test for good intentions
Intel's antitrust ruling
A billion-euro question
Porsche and Volkswagen
Payback for Pi・h
Television in Spain
Zapped
Advertising's new model
Clock-watchers no more
Telecoms in Australia
So long, Sol
Winners in Japan's recession
Gloom and boom
Face value
Call the carabiniere

Briefing
The news business
Tossed by a gale

Finance and economics
Asian economies
Crouching tigers, stirring dragons
Buttonwood
Birth pains
Stress tests
Hospital pass
Bank regulation
Dilute or die
The poor
Smooth operators
Hedge funds
Gluttons for punishment?
Economics focus
Damage assessment

Science & Technology
Astronomy
Peek-a-boo
Palaeolithic pornography
Unveiled
Wolfram Alpha
The search is on
Travel and creativity
Expats at work
Libel
Court behind

Books & Arts
Chinese manufacturing
Poorly made
I.F. Stone's journalism
American muck-raker
Sex pioneers in America
So long in coming
The lost people of Central Asia
Out of steppe
Greek archaeology
Making merry at Knossos
New film at Cannes
Francis Ford Coppola's 典etro・
New fiction
Anne Michaels's "The Winter Vault"

Obituary
Margaret Gelling

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Politics this week
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｡eaders
Europe's economies
A new pecking order
Barack Obama and the carmakers
An offer you can't refuse
Nepal's political crisis
Two armies into one won't go
Deflation in America
The greater of two evils
Animal welfare
Catheter and mouse

｡etters
On water, Cyprus and Turkey, China and currencies, the Summit of the Americas, Barack Obama, defence spending, casinos

｡riefing
The French model
Vive la diffｨｦrence!

｡nited States
The Supreme Court
Following Souter
Cuba and America
Gently does it
Tax dodges
Havens no more
New York transport
A fare deal
The Kentucky Derby
Celebration in recession
Coal-fired power plants
The writing on the wall
Jack Kemp
Conservative hero
Lexington
The golden boy and the blob
Award: Democracy in America

｡he Americas
Mexico
The cracks opened up by the flu
St Pierre and Miquelon
Squaring off for a seabed scrap
Trade unions in Venezuela
Socialism v labour
Panama's presidential election
Super 09
Crime in Peru
Printing money

｡sia
Nepal's political crisis
How fierce will the Maoists be now?
India's election and the BJP
Saffron hopes
Fighting the Pakistani Taliban
The Swat test
Afghanistan's elections
Poll position
Scandal in Indonesia
A fatal round
Singapore's NGO furore
Taken unawares
South Australia's water shortage
In need of a miracle
Defending Australia
Sharpening the koala's claws
Banyan
A watched frog never boils
Correction: Johns Hopkins University

｡iddle East & Africa
Sudan
Behind the defiance, a whirr of diplomacy
Guinea's new leader
He sounds modest. But for how long?
Tanzania
Waiting for that great leap forward
Prisoners in Iraq
Hope for the best when they go free
Iran's presidential race
How popular is the populist?
Egypt's pigs
What a waste

｡urope
Germany's economy
The export model sputters
Silvio Berlusconi's divorce
Put asunder
Unemployment in Spain
Not working
Russia and its near abroad
Neighbourhood watching
Charlemagne
An unloved parliament

｡ritain
Gordon Brown
A hunted man
Michael Savage excluded
The creeps of wrath
ID cards are go
Ploughing on
Britain's Muslims
Pious, loyal and unhappy
Scotland's Muslims
Islam in tartan
Protecting children
When parents don't
State aid for industry
Thin end of the wedge
Bagehot
There is no alternative
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Emerging markets and the credit crunch
Whom can we rely on?
Piracy
Wrong signals
Philanthropy
Give and count the cost Previous print editions
May 2nd 2009
Apr 25th 2009
Apr 18th 2009
Apr 11th 2009
Apr 4th 2009

｡usiness
Technology and antitrust
Here we go again
Mergers and acquisitions
Buying on the dips
Peer-to-peer lending in China
Chinese borrowing
New Kindle
Big is beautiful
Chinese investment in Taiwan
Strait deals
Rolls-Royce
Keep on rolling
Time Warner and the internet
After the divorce
Face value
Power struggle

｡riefing
Fiat's ambitions
The Italian solution

｡inance and economics
American consumers
Off their trolleys
Buttonwood
Happy days are here again
American banks
Who's in charge here?
German finance
The sick banking system of Europe
Infrastructure
Ports in a storm
Banks in the Gulf
Shifting sands
Canada-EU trade talks
A 60-year-old dream
Economics focus
Opening the floodgates

｡cience & Technology
Global health
Preparing for the worst
Animal testing
Suffering for science
Electric cars and noise
The sound of silence

｡ooks & Arts
Chinese history
The man who lost China
21st-century power
Future shock
The rise of Christianity
The millennium bug
Migrating swallows
Spring bringers
New fiction
Living daylights
Contemporary jewellery
Golden globes

｡bituary
Hans Holzer

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Pandemics
The pandemic threat
Italy
Regrettable Berlusconi
South Africa
It needs an opposition
Latin America's economies
That fragile thing: a good reputation
Tax
A nasty Brown mess
Letters
On Iranian dissidents, the wealthy, Thailand, television, biofuels, Islam, Oakland's mayor, Placido Domingo

Briefing
Pakistan and the Taliban
A real offensive, or a phoney war?
United States
Obama's record
A hundred days of hyperactivity
Obama and trade
Low expectations exceeded
Dachshund racing
Dogs in a hurry
Spreading electricity
A gust of progress
The postal service
You've got (no) mail
Statewatch: Rhode Island
Little Rhody in the red
Lexington
Party-hopping
The Americas
Latin America's economies
Pain but no panic
Paraguay
The boy and the bishop
Mexico's army
Barracks law
Asia
Myanmar after the cyclone
When the help dries up
Japan's opposition in disarray
Should he stay or should he go?
Taiwan and the WHO
A healthy development
China and Japan
The flowerpot man
The Philippines and America
The romance has gone
Sri Lanka's humanitarian crisis
Exodus of misery
Banyan
Australia's Chinese entanglement
Middle East & Africa
Iraq
Searching for a phoenix in Basra
The Gaza Strip
Not nearly back to normal
South Africa's elections
A big win for a big new man
Rebranding Nigeria
Good people, impossible mission
Europe
Italy and its prime minister
The Berlusconisation of Italy
Iceland's election
Visions of Johanna
Turkey and Armenia
Mountain chess
Portugal's economy
Socratic dialogue
French universities
One out, a quarter out
The Roma in eastern Europe
Canada home and dry
Charlemagne
Those selfish Germans
Britain
The Conservatives in government
A cold coming they'll have of it
Public finances
Unpalatable choices
The London bombings
Lost among the rubble
Settlement rights for soldiers
Gurkhas v government
Monitoring the internet
Bitwatching
Barclays in the money
High-street high-roller
Equality and the law
A bonanza for box-tickers
Bagehot
Charm versus cojones
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International
Islam in Britain and South Asia
A single space
The World Bank and global health
Promising to try harder Previous print editions
Apr 25th 2009
Apr 18th 2009
Apr 11th 2009
Apr 4th 2009
Mar 28th 2009

Business
Company balance-sheets
The sensible giants
Chrysler and General Motors
End game
Logistics in China
Return to sender
Two talent agencies merge
Tying the knot
Recruitment
You're hired溶ext year
Spanish companies in Latin America
A good bet?
Face value
Electric evangelist
Briefing
Global health
Watching nervously
Flu and the global economy
The butcher's bill
Finance and economics
Bank shareholders
Changing course
Wall Street's chief executives
Second life
Corporate bonds
Empty coffers
Securitisation
The torpor of the TALF
Online marketplaces
New bids on the block
Buttonwood
Bucking the trend
The Federal Reserve
The hedge fund of Foggy Bottom
Derivatives
Fashion victim
Economics focus
New fund, old fundamentals
Correction: Ms Hyunyoung Choi
Science & Technology
Warfare
All at sea
Psychology
Life in thin slices
Civil engineering
Filling in the cracks
Animal behaviour
Snowball fight
Apology: Lighting up cancer
Books & Arts
Vilnius
Contested city
Americans in Paris
Treachery and heroics
Thatcher's Britain
Passing the baton
The nuclear age
Cautionary tales
Impressionist painting
Manet, Monet, money
London theatre
Gooldilocks
Obituary
Samuel Beer
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The world economy
A glimmer of hope?
Politics and the British budget
Desperate measures
The United States and Latin America
A new start in the Americas
Sri Lanka's war
To the bitter end
Cyberwar
Battle is joined

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Britain after the budget
Hubris and nemesis

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◆United States
Tim Geithner
Baptism of fire
Climate change
A green figleaf
Illinois
Pruning a jungle
The World Trade Centre
Slow building
Universities and the recession
Desperemus igitur
California splitting
Of Ossis and Wessis
Homelessness
The Hooverville that wasn't
White-collar prisoners
How not to get stuck in jail
Lexington
After the dark side

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Ecuador's election
Revolution! Please give generously
Canada's Liberals
The Ignatieff revival
The United States and Latin America
The charming neighbour
Kidnapping in Colombia
How many hostages?

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◆Asia
Sri Lanka's war
Dark victory
China's navy
Distant horizons
Chinese script
Not as easy as it looks
Cambodia, Kuwait and farmland
Petrodollars v smallholders
Vietnam and China
Bauxite bashers
Australia and asylum-seekers
The burning deck
Banyan
Calling Kim Jong Il's bluff

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◆Middle East & Africa
The new politics of Israel's foreign policy
A grand bargain?
Lebanon
Bucking the trend
Kenya's crumbling government
The great rift
South Africa's election
Zuma cum laude?

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