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Salman Rushdie’s gripping take on his attempted murder
“Knife” is a love story about attempted murder, a paradox captured in the skewed symmetry between the attack and another central scene. On the night he met Eliza, Sir Salman walked klutzily into a ...
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Where are all the British robots?
Manufacturing today accounts for only 8% of the British economy, down from 27% in 1970; in South Korea and Japan, manufacturing accounts for 26% and 19% of GDP respectively. But even compared with ...
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Countries at China’s stage of development often shift towards services. But China’s leaders have a soft spot for “hard” output. Xi Jinping, the country’s ruler, sees manufacturing as a source of both ...
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Mike Johnson to split aid; Trump’s jury selection continues
Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, put forward a plan to decouple aid for Israel from that for Ukraine. The House ...
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Mike Johnson to split up aid; Trump’s jury selection begins
Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, put forward a plan that would decouple aid for Israel from that for Ukraine. The ...
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Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
Major General Hossein Salami, says the regime is now working with “a new equation.” “The era of strategic patience is over,” ...
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Introducing Middle East Dispatch, our latest newsletter
O UR LATEST newsletter for subscribers, Middle East Dispatch, launches on April 23rd. If you subscribe to The Economist you can sign up here. The Middle East is rarely out of the ...
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America hits Chinese biotech—and its own drugmakers
The politicians worry about American health data falling into the hands of the Chinese authorities. They also fret about American intellectual property ( IP ), for example in the form of drug recipes ...
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A trauma surgeon on why Gaza is the worst of war zones
OVER THE past 30 years I have worked in war zones around the world as a surgeon treating casualties resulting from conflict, including in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Iraq. War wounds, the effects of ...
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Explore our prediction model for Britain’s looming election
To tackle this problem, The Economist has built a new prediction model using 9,398 individual constituency-level election results along with available polling data from every election since 1959. Our ...
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After one year of war, Sudan is a failing state
Famine is expected to have hit most of Sudan by June, killing half a million people, according to the “most likely scenario” in a study by the Clingendael Institute, a Dutch think-tank. In its ...
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Houston, Texas: where asylum cases come to die
N ationally, immigration courts grant asylum in about four out of ten cases. Houston’s courts, in common with those in ...