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On Africa, Germany, sulphur, Biden, Jimmy Carter, machine translation, nicknames

People are moving with donkeys on a busy street as daily life continues in Niamey, Niger.

On Taiwan, data in politics, Kevins, ultra-processed foods, Iran, Scotland, stockmarkets

Stacks of gold, silver and bronze coins that look like a sports podium

On gambling, Stack Overflow, museums, Africa, Britain, ancient Rome, book titles, Britishisms, lift humour

On nuclear weapons, Jordan Peterson, credit cards, John D. Rockefeller, our cover, behaving in lifts

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On Northvolt, veterans’ benefits, iodine, Somalia, farm villains

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On assisted dying, the Central African Republic, airships

On assisted dying

A nurse attends to a patient behind curtains, with light coming through the blinds

The world this week

Politics

Business

KAL’s cartoon

The Economist

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The future of Ukraine

How to win the hot war in Ukraine and the cold war that will follow it

Leaders

Not enough Wende

A year after he promised a transformation, Olaf Scholz has done too little

Making America greater

Joe Biden’s new border policies irritate the extremes. Good

Irrational interest

South Africa’s diplomatic descent 

Tighter belt, shorter road

China has not resolved its past lending mistakes. But it is learning from them 

Russia and Ukraine

Mark Sedwill on a year of fighting in Ukraine

By Invitation

Africa and the world

Mo Ibrahim on the need to reform international financial institutions 

A year of war: Geopolitics in flux

Ukraine’s fate will determine the West’s authority in the world

Briefing

A year of war: Keeping the guns blazing

The West is struggling to forge a new arsenal of democracy

A year of war: Militarising Russia

The invasion has stalled, but Putin’s war on dissent marches on

A year of war: Ukraine’s self-belief

The war is making Ukraine a Western country

A hail of destruction

Data from satellites reveal the vast extent of fighting in Ukraine

The slow shift of Mr Scholz

A year on, Olaf Scholz’s promise of transformation is only partly kept

Europe

Neither shock nor awe

Russia’s vaunted second offensive is a damp squib

The might of miltech

Ukraine’s tech entrepreneurs turn to military matters

Ukraine’s tiger queen

Meet the woman who is saving Ukraine’s wild animals

Charlemagne

Why Vladimir Putin will never stand trial in The Hague

Protospasm

Rishi Sunak’s uphill struggle to make Brexit work in Northern Ireland

Britain

True crime

Nicola Bulley and the era of the social-media sleuth

Nice to have

Britain’s biggest skills problem is that many firms don’t value them

Found in translation 

A BBC monitoring station that listened in on the world is being sold 

Courting disaster

Why crumbling courts are worsening Britain’s trial backlog

Referee!

The British government hopes a regulator can save football from folly

Bagehot

Bring back Shamima Begum and then put her in prison

America’s industrial policy

State subsidies fuel America’s EV boom but risk overcapacity

United States

Ghost of the machine

Chicago may throw Mayor Lori Lightfoot out in the first round

The fire and the fury

The Ohio train derailment is turning into a political circus

Land of the fat

Christian Californians may have a solution to America’s obesity

A new awakening

A Christian college in Kentucky has experienced a religious awakening

Lexington

“Freedom” is America’s latest political football

Not so neutral

Why South Africa is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit

Middle East & Africa

Scorpions can be cuddly

A Nigerian trade in insects that bite

Workers of the world

Young Africans are logging in and clocking on

Cutting your losses

Saudi Arabia is reconciling with regimes it once tried to topple

Could his kingdom come?

The son of Iran’s last shah bids to regain the throne

A new chapter

Joe Biden needs Mexico’s co-operation on migration

The Americas

Not delivering the goods

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, wants to smother the gig economy

A small, necessary step

One Canadian province has decriminalised drugs

The indispensable archipelago

The Philippines’ proximity to Taiwan makes it central to Western strategy

Asia

Renewable energy

India’s solar power rollout is flagging

Crypto-heist

North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7bn of crypto last year

Banyan

Keeping up with the Tokugawas

Proxies and peril

The conflict in Ukraine risks inflaming the Sino-American rivalry

China

In the net 

A sweeping campaign against corruption in Chinese football

Policy maize

Is China’s attitude to genetically modified crops changing?

Chaguan

China’s public is fed up, but not on the brink of revolt

A home from home

Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo

International

The Altasian option

Global firms are eyeing Asian alternatives to Chinese manufacturing

Refurbishing the boardroom

Demands on corporate boards are more intense than ever

Bartleby

Unshowy competence brings drawbacks as well as benefits

Everyday low profits

A warning from Walmart about the health of the American consumer

Pay as you post

Facebook sells subscriptions as the ad business stumbles

Mathias in the middle

Axel Springer is going all in on America

Schumpeter

It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube

Time for the tab

The world’s interest bill is $13trn—and rising

Finance & economics

Farewell to Africa

Xi Jinping’s next overseas-lending revolution   

Reserve judgment

Big Asian economies take on the forces of international capital—and win

Buttonwood

Despite the bullish talk, Wall Street has China reservations

Budgeting for conflict

What war has done to Europe’s economy

Free exchange

What would the perfect climate-change lender look like?

Scientific malpractice

There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research

Science & technology

The singer and the song

At Young Thug’s blockbuster trial, rap lyrics are used as evidence

Culture

European history

Timothy Garton Ash travels across Europe and into its past

World in a dish

The rise of chilli crisp is a study in how foods become fads 

America’s Federal Reserve

A new book traces the evolution of the Fed’s extraordinary powers

Fiction from Trinidad

In “Hungry Ghosts”, spectres of Trinidad’s past haunt the island

Back Story

How an Ethiopian prince came to be buried at Windsor Castle

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

The Economist explains

What are “golden visas”?

What is Section 230?

What madness looks like

Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone

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