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Coronavirus briefs • To 6am GMT Jun 24th 2021
The world this week
Still going strong • China’s ruling party is about to turn 100. How long can the world’s most successful autocracy last?
New horizons • Investors can no longer take low interest rates for granted
Must try harder • School closures have caused children great harm. Governments are doing shockingly little to help them catch up
Radically reasonable • Joe Manchin’s proposed changes to America’s voting laws deserve wide support
Know thyself • To understand human genetic diversity, study the place where humans first evolved
Letters
Catching up is hard to do • The pandemic has been a catastrophe for schoolchildren. But it could inspire reforms to make schools more efficient, flexible and fair
The 3-3-3 court • NEW YORK
Down and up • NEW YORK
Biden and the bishops • NEW YORK
Background noise • LOS ANGELES
Kelp wanted • BLOCK ISLAND
The Foreign Not-in-Service • NEW YORK
Banana Man loses his appeal • PORT-AU-PRINCE
Puffalo soldiers • Bob Marley’s heirs boost Jamaica’s ganja industry
Let them only speak French • MONTREAL
The monster of Managua • Daniel Ortega tears up all pretence of democracy in Nicaragua
The downward spiral • SINGAPORE
No more Mr Mice Guy • SYDNEY
Silenced witness • MANILA
Unlawfully wed • SINGAPORE
The book of Cho • A political memoir has South Koreans asking whom politicians serve
The stories we tell • SHIRAOI
Vanguard of the non-working class • HONG KONG
Brought to book • BEIJING
Farewell, Apple Daily
Hiding in plain sight • A trip to Xinjiang reveals the racial targeting of population-control measures
The African genome project • CAPE TOWN
Islands of democracy • Why Africa’s island states are freer
A bonfire of satire • ABUJA
A hardliner wins, democracy loses • What the election of Ebrahim Raisi means for Iran and the nuclear deal
Lingering fallout • The long legacy of France’s nuclear tests in Algeria
Another slap in the face • PARIS
The nine lives of Lofven • A fallen PM gets a last chance
Muck in Marmara • ISTANBUL
Pardoning the separatists • MADRID
Crimea and punishment • Russian and British forces square off in the Black Sea
Belgitude: the art of Belgian zen • A rogue soldier explains life in Europe’s strangest country
How to spend it • Procurement reforms offer a glimpse of Britain after Brexit
A Unionist Pootsch • BELFAST
Growing pains • The government says it wants an economic boom. Its core voters are less keen
Flying blind • Covid-19 has stymied governments’ efforts to collect data. But it may also spur innovation
Rocks and hard places • Big miners are showing uncharacteristic discipline amid soaring metals prices. That could be bad news for the climate
Grid luck • NEW YORK
Selling like hot cakes • HONG KONG
Going solo • The world’s biggest record label heads for an IPO
Making short work of it • BERLIN
Machines and machinations • TOKYO
Workers on the march • Labour may be gaining ground on capital
A new Tiger in town • How a hyperactive technology fund is changing Silicon Valley
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