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Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s president, visited Mazar-i-Sharif to rally government troops as the Taliban closed in on the city...
After a 14-hour vote-a-rama, America’s Senate passed a Democratic budget blueprint worth $3.5trn...
Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s newly inaugurated hardline president, revealed his cabinet, which includes Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a staunchly anti-West diplomat, as foreign minister...
Sudan said that it will hand over its former dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and other officials to the International Criminal Court...
Andrew Cuomo resigns before impeachment proceedings begin
New York’s governor didn’t tough it out after all
Zambia’s election is crucial, but it’s not a fair fight
Hakainde Hichilema deserves to be elected, but the world should prepare for a rigged vote
Daily chart: Demand for air conditioning is set to surge by 2050
Income growth, more than rising temperatures, is behind the boom
Banyan: Malaysia’s politics are rotten from the top
Ordinary Malaysians suffer from the machinations of their politicians
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Weekly edition: August 7th 2021
The people’s panopticon: Open-source intelligence comes of age
What if bitcoin fell to zero?
A thought experiment helps uncover the links between crypto and mainstream finance
Inside Xinjiang’s economy
Prison camps and forced labour are unlikely to produce economic dynamism
How to solve the chip shortage
Government subsidies will lead to overcapacity and waste
Predicting pathogens
New techniques could programme people’s immune systems against future pathogens
Climate change
The IPCC delivers its starkest warning about the world’s climate
Observations of changes now taking place make the science more accurate, but not more reassuring
Where is climate change being felt most acutely?
The IPCC report concludes for the first time that humans are unequivocally responsible for global warming, and shows where the impact is greatest
A 3°C world has no safe place
The extremes of floods and fires are not going away, but adaptation can lessen their impact
Three degrees of global warming is quite plausible and truly disastrous
Rapid emission cuts can reduce the risks but not eliminate them
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Graphic detail
How climate targets compare against a common baseline
Certain sorts of pledge are far less bold than they first appear
Special reports: June 26th 2021
The Chinese Communist Party
The world’s most powerful political party was founded a century ago. James Miles says it is projecting ever greater confidence, while fortifying itself against collapse
The push to revamp the Chinese Communist Party for the next 100 years
Trying to heal the party’s wounds
Busybodies, backed by AI, are restoring the party’s visibility
The party is eager to expand its influence within business
Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite
As Chinese citizens head overseas, the party does likewise
A future, but with Chinese characteristics
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