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◆On the cover
Europe's recovery will last only if its governments take advantage of sunnier times to make deeper reforms
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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon
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◆Leaders
European economies
Can Europe's recovery last?
The International Monetary Fund
Fait accompli
After the battle for the Red Mosque
The general and the mullahs
Energy policy
A pale shade of green
America and Iraq
Plan, don't panic
In praise of unequal sports
Off the ball
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◆Letters
On the Potsdam summit, America's judges, suicide, currency exchange, the number seven
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◆Special Report
Internet jihad
A world wide web of terror
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◆United States
Congress and Iraq
Pushed for a pull-out
Congress debates climate change
Full of sound and fury
Presidential candidates
Hitting the buffers
Circuses
Send home the clowns?
New York state politics
Now, now, boys
Mobile phones
Towers of trouble
San Francisco's half-recovery
City in a bottle
Lexington
Dead man walking
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◆The Americas
Colombia
A hero at home, a villain abroad
Central America
Trading arguments
Canada
Harper steps out
Climate change in the Andes
When ice turns to water
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◆Asia
Pakistan
Showdown at the mosque
Whaling in Japan
Local flukes
NATO in Afghanistan
No rush for the exit, yet
Housing in Beijing
One household, one vote
The European Union and Taiwan
Bully for China
Dengue in South-East Asia
The prosperity bug
South Korea's presidential election
Glorious mud
Indonesia
The end of the rainbow
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◆Middle East & Africa
Iraq
The bloody stalemate persists
Zimbabwe
How to stay alive when it all runs out
Ethiopia
Off with their heads, maybe
The Comoro islands
An unusual haunt for al-Qaeda
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◆Europe
Kosovo's future
A new battlefield
Bosnia's Muslims
Balkan extremists
Turkey's election
In search of the female voter
French political scandals
The law above
Poland's unsteady government
Crash, bang, fizzle
Malta, Cyprus and the euro
Into the club
Charlemagne
The lessons of history
Correction: Ukraine
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◆Britain
North Sea oil
When the wells dry up
Oil and gas production
Every last drop
Feudal Sark
Democratic revolution
Two by-elections
A litmus test
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◆International
Polls, wealth and happiness
Where money seems to talk
Religion and happiness
The fruits, and sorrows, of faith
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◆Business
Business in America
Jam today
M&A in Japan
Land of the rising sums
European carmaking
Why Fiat is cool again
French industry policy
Getting better?
Vertical search-engines
Know your subject
Digital cinema
The final frontier
3-D films
Looking more convincing
Face value
Leader of the swarm
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◆Special Report
Germany's economy
Back above the bar again
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◆Finance & Economics
Debt markets
Another pounding
Buttonwood
Too much information
Debt ratings
AAAsking for trouble
Investment banking
Down the Matterhorn
South Korea's financial markets
Do as I say, not as I do
Economics focus
Sporting chance
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◆Science & Technology
Computing and biology
Arresting developments
Ageing
The long and the short of it
Sexual selection and Chernobyl
Plumes and plumage
Biological pest control
Ant and tech
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◆Books & Arts
History of science
Revolutionaries at work and play
Corporate strategy
Be firm, be flexible
The German economy
A gloomster's lament
Elizabeth Marsh
Rising out of obscurity
Italy during the war
The cruellest years
Russia's art market
I'll buy it, especially if it's Russian
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◆Obituary
George Melly
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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
France
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
The world's biggest banks
