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    May 19

    War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business. Our latest cover story explains how the calamity can be minimised

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  2. An inspiring number of Burmese have thrown themselves into the struggle against the junta, sacrificing income and risking their lives to express their anger at the army

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  3. British policymakers sometimes appear to think that inflation emerged from overgenerous government spending, as in America, rather than a supply shock, as their European peers accept

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  4. Only a fraction of Ukrainian grain can be exported by rail and road. Shipments with naval convoys in the Black Sea would be vulnerable to a Russian assault—and would have to navigate mines

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  5. National security concerns and anxiety over dependency on foreign drugs have prevented China from approving mRNA vaccines. This blocks its exit from covid controls

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  6. Asia’s richest tycoon displays an uncanny ability to raise capital. Paired with vaulting ambition, it is a hard mix to beat

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  7. As Vladimir Putin’s regime shifts from a relatively open authoritarianism towards a more closed dictatorship, its propaganda is changing, too

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  8. Hanna Bilobrova, the Lithuanian film-maker’s partner and collaborator, managed to retrieve his footage from Mariupol and turn the material into a new film

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  9. Rich, baby-averse Asian countries in the region have three things in common: a decline in marriages, expensive schooling and high house prices

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  10. No explanation has been offered, nor any new rules actually published, but police are enforcing restrictions with relish

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  11. The Chinese government encourages ultra-nationalist views online, especially on topics such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, covid-19 and Ukraine. A new Twitter account exposes them to the West

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  12. Other Chinese cities have adopted more sweeping pandemic controls than Beijing with even fewer cases. But discontent about measures in the capital is growing louder

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  13. A new Twitter account shows how the Chinese Communist Party stirs up ultra-nationalism

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  14. The United States’ diminishing influence in Latin America, a function of China’s growing presence and its own political dysfunction, does not help

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  15. Learning how to read and write Chinese is hard. Yet with a tutor and memory-aid in your pocket, you no longer need a strong work ethic and prodigious memory

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  16. The Communist Party has built relationships with senior Catholics in Hong Kong, most of whom now sing from the party’s hymn sheet. Cardinal Zen is an exception

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  17. The 256 ways that the 16 shells can fall, each either open or closed, are read to diagnose and solve any problem

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  18. “If there is no agreement on Ukraine and the conflict endures through cycles of shaky ceasefires followed by new rounds of escalation, expect decay in global and regional bodies,” warns the Russian political scientist

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  19. “The stakes in the conflict could hardly be higher,” argues Andrey Kortunov. “It is about the future of the international system and about the future of the world order”

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  20. The word "uninvestible" has caused a bit of a furore. “Unanalysable” might be more appropriate

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  21. In the first quarter of the year Brazil exported 2.2m tonnes of wheat, more than four times as in the same period a year earlier

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