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Unveiled threats: Iran's patient protesters
Iran’s protests may have gone quiet for the moment, but that does not mean they’ve been defeated. Beneath a calmer surface, Iranians are seething and…
3 years, 1 month ago
Doctors’ disorders: Britain’s overwhelmed health service
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hund…
3 years, 1 month ago
Unquiet on the eastern front: fighting in the Donbas
Russian troops have turned Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, into a charnel house—and a proving ground for its mercenary army. The booming North Sea regio…
3 years, 1 month ago
Cloud coup-coup land: riots in Brazil
In a scene reminiscent of the US Capitol riot two years ago, supporters of Brazil’s defeated president rampaged through government buildings yesterda…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bibi’s got backup: Israel’s right-wing government
Israel’s new government is its most right-wing ever—but, in a break from the past, that may not derail deepening relations with neighbouring Arab cou…
3 years, 2 months ago
Silva’s mettle: Brazil’s newish president
Our Brazil correspondent surveys the state of the country, as Lula assumes the presidency precisely 20 years after his first inauguration. We ask why…
3 years, 2 months ago
We need to balk about Kevin: Congress opens in chaos
Republican control of America’s House of Representatives began in chaos: they failed to elect a speaker, the first time in a century that’s happened.…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ill news, spreads apace: covid in China
The sudden rescinding of zero-covid strictures has, as expected, led to a spike in cases. Our correspondent visits overstretched hospitals and cremat…
3 years, 2 months ago
The dragon chasing: China and a new nuclear order
China’s arsenal of nuclear weapons has swiftly expanded; it is now roughly the size of Russia’s and America’s. That will make for a different—and far…
3 years, 2 months ago
In passing: the notable lives lost in 2022
From Pelé, the “king of football”, to Britain’s longest-reigning queen, our editors and correspondents reflected on the accomplishments of many notab…
3 years, 2 months ago