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Americas Briefing— Americas
Preface
The view from the US campaign trail, fracking in Argentina and how the odds are looking for Mexico to get its first female president.
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01Apres Obama
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02Gender wars
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03The big sell off
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Africa/Middle East Briefing
Issue 52
A look at the wardrobe of South Sudan's president, plus election watch in Mali and solving Lebanon's power-shortage problems.
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Europe Briefing
Issue 48
Greece is grumpy with Macedonia (again), Moscow's mad with illegal taxi drivers, and Poles are pleased about new Warsaw skyscraper.
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Yes they can
Issue 19
Aside from helping to elect Barack Obama, voters in California passed historic legislation to approve the nation’s first high-speed rail network. If the US wants to get back to work, investing in all its transport is key…
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Observation
Issue 23
As political parties prepare for the Lebanese elections, the wider picture looks almost rosy. The country is reeling back its highly skilled workforce from wobbly Dubai and tourism could rise – if the country makes a sel…
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Africa/Middle East briefing
Issue 16
Syrian first lady Adma Al-Assad's outfits; wine-tasting classes for poor South Africans.
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Africa/Middle East Briefing
Issue 33
Israel's glut of lawyers, the South Africans taking a stand against cheap imported clothes, and preparations for elections in the Central African Republic.
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Wave power
Issue 14
On the island of O’ahu in Hawaii, members of a local independence movement have succeeded in winning back land claimed by the US in 1893. Now many are calling for nothing less than Hawaii’s complete secession from US rule…
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Oceania briefing
Issue 61
Rebranding Fiji's regime, saving butterflies in Papua New Guinea, and the wonder of ore in Western Australia.
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Observation Issue 05
Issue 5
Not everyone is welcome on the beach in Italy this summer. The Russians are discovering that the locals, while partial to their cash, find them too gauche for words. A new Cold-Shoulder War has broken out.
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Asia briefing
Issue 7
Chinese contemporary artist Yue Minjun may command millions for his paintings overseas but at home he is dogged by a growing trade in cheap copies of his work. While Microsoft, Louis Vuitton and Hollywood studios have been…
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Defence Briefing
Issue 54
Squabbling over islands in the South China Sea, shopping for warships with Algeria, and boosting the Bangladeshi military.
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Oceania Briefing
Issue 40
The king of Tonga is our dapper Style Leader, Australia is a wise old goat, and New Zealand strips its prisoners of the right to vote and smoke.