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Politics this week

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Politics this week

Israel caused an international furore when its commandos shot dead nine protesters on a Turkish ship that was bound with humanitarian supplies for Gaza, which Israel has been blockading. The commandos boarded the ship before dawn in an effort to prevent it from reaching Gaza but opened fire when some of those on board tried to repel them with sticks and, according to the Israelis, knives. The Israelis impounded six ships in all and detained ... (983 words)

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Sudan after the elections: Back to the bad old ways

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Sudan after the elections: Back to the bad old ways

Now that the election is over, repression has returnedSINCE Omar al-Bashir took power in a coup in 1989, he has tended to grant democratic freedoms only when absolutely forced to. The peace deal of 2005 that ended 21 years of civil war between the Arab north and the black south relaxed sharia law on non-Muslims, one of the southerners’ main complaints, and, at the urging of the West, provided for free and fair elections. Mr ... (873 words)

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Cleaner diesel engines: Pouring water on troubled oils

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Cleaner diesel engines: Pouring water on troubled oils

To make engines cleaner, add H2ODIESEL engines, with their rough-and-ready, spark-plug-free method of fuel ignition, have a reputation for being smoky and smelly. These days, that is a bit unfair. Fussy consumers and even fussier regulations mean the sophisticated diesels used to propel modern cars are pretty much as clean as their petrol-powered, sparked-up equivalents. But the heavy-duty diesels employed in ships still have a long way to go. And that matters. Research by James ... (646 words)

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Colour me South African

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Colour me South African

Learning to live in a rainbow societyGENERATIONS of Afrikaners (whites mostly of Dutch, French and German descent, but often with a good dose of indigenous Khoikhoi blood, too) were brought up to believe that God had created blacks inferior to whites. Blacks were the descendants of Noah’s son, Ham, they were taught, cursed for ever more to be the “servant[s] of servants”. The material deprivations suffered by blacks under apartheid were bad enough. But the ... (1699 words)

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Jobless growth

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Jobless growth

The economy is doing nicely—but at least one person in three is out of workWHEN the ANC took over in 1994, it inherited an economy that was virtually bankrupt, following decades of mismanagement, international sanctions and violent protests. Since then exports have doubled in real terms to reach $91 billion in 2008, accounting for 33% of GDP; output per person has risen by more than a quarter, having fallen throughout the previous two decades; public ... (1385 words)

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Hold your nose

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Hold your nose

The smell of corruption“I DIDN’T join the struggle to be poor,” protested Smuts Ngonyama, then the ANC’s spokesman, in 2007. His comment epitomised a prevailing culture of entitlement in the ruling party. Paul Hoffman of the Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa reckons that corruption is endemic throughout the public sector. This is at least in part because it is so easy to get away with, he says. “From top to bottom, the attitude seems ... (1251 words)

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Aviation in the Gulf: Rulers of the new silk road

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Aviation in the Gulf: Rulers of the new silk road

The ambitions of the three Gulf-based “super-connecting” airlines are bad news for competitors but good news for passengersTHE view from Tim Clark’s office in Emirates’ new headquarters should strike fear into the hearts of rival airline bosses in Europe and America. Across the way is Dubai Airport’s Terminal 3, which opened without a hitch six months after the botched start-up of Terminal 5 at Heathrow, London’s biggest airport. Both terminals can handle about the same ... (2992 words)

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North Korea: Not waving. Perhaps drowning

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North Korea: Not waving. Perhaps drowning

North Korea, a nuclear-armed state, seems to be increasingly unstable. What can the big powers do about it?IT IS typical of China’s entrepreneurial spirit that on its treacherous border with North Korea, you can hire army-style binoculars for ten yuan ($1.50) apiece to peer into one of the most ruthless police states on earth. It also says a lot about North Korea’s couldn’t-care-less attitude to the outside world that it makes no attempt to spruce ... (2874 words)

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Financial markets: Rescuing the rescuers

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Financial markets: Rescuing the rescuers

Having saved the banks, governments now find themselves under the wary eye of the marketsIF BULLISH investors had been given two Christmas wishes at the end of 2009, they probably would have asked for booming profits and a continuation of ultra-low interest rates. Their wishes have been granted. According to Morgan Stanley, the first-quarter profits of companies in the S&P 500 have been more than 12% better than expected. Meanwhile, few expect the Federal Reserve, ... (2770 words)

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