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Invaluable bonds: rising borrowing costs
America may have avoided a government shutdown last month but its fiscal worries are far from over. And unease in bond markets will spill over into t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Pole position: elections in Poland
After two terms in power, Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist party looks to have lost its majority. For Donald Tusk’s pro-Europe centrists, it’s bargai…
2 years, 2 months ago
6000 bombs in six days: life in Gaza
Bombs have rained on the strip since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday. With food, water and electricity running out ahead of a ground invasion,…
2 years, 3 months ago
Mass destruction: Israel prepares for a ground invasion
The Defence Force is preparing to follow up its air strikes on Gaza with troops. An incursion will be bloody, and perhaps even more so if Hezbollah b…
2 years, 3 months ago
An interview with a Hamas leader
How does the Palestinian militant group justify the atrocities committed in Israel? Why has it done this? What does it plan to do with the hostages? …
2 years, 3 months ago
Shell shocked: Israel fights back
As the retribution continues, the state has now cut off supplies to the Palestinian enclave, and America is sending military support to Binyamin Neta…
2 years, 3 months ago
Israel reels: a bloody assault
Almost exactly 50 years on from the moment that launched the deadly Yom Kippur War, Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza strip, carried o…
2 years, 3 months ago
Windows of opportunity: Microsoft’s AI push
The once-unassailable titan of tech has missed big opportunities in recent years. But it has a reasonable shot at the title again, thanks to its arti…
2 years, 3 months ago
So the Tory goes: Britain’s Conservatives meet
Divisions within the ruling party are on full display this week, and the provocative policies Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced are unlikely to he…
2 years, 3 months ago
Blown speaker: Kevin McCarthy is out
Another shutdown standoff, funding worries for Ukraine, more leadership chaos: the booting of America’s speaker of the House of Representatives bodes…
2 years, 3 months ago