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Colombia turns left
A former leftist guerrilla wins Colombia’s election
Gustavo Petro’s past leaves a legacy of distrust to overcome
Read more: How Gustavo Petro may change Colombia
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Jupiter in descent
Emmanuel Macron loses his parliamentary majority
It is a shocking reversal for France’s president
Read more: Our Paris bureau chief picks seven books to make sense of modern France
Islands of price stability
Why is inflation relatively low in some places?
We identify the large economies where inflation trails behind that in the West
Read more: People’s inflation expectations are rising—and will be hard to bring down
Pivot to Asia
Inside the battle for Asian-American votes
How Republicans hope to grab a bigger share of America’s fastest-growing voting block
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Why are pilots in Ukraine firing rockets so clumsily?
“Lofting”, which dates back to the 1940s, suggests both sides lack modern weaponry
Bagehot
The union planning Britain’s biggest rail strikes for three decades
The RMT is the country’s most potent trade union as well as one of its weirdest
The harshest affliction
Family separation among slaves in America was shockingly prevalent
A new dataset tracks the journeys of slaves shipped along the coast to New Orleans
Science friction
Leaving Horizon would jeopardise research in Britain and the EU
British participation in a huge scientific-funding programme is threatened by the row over the Northern Ireland protocol
Russia and Ukraine
There will be African victims of Russia’s war, warn Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Olusegun Obasanjo
The former presidents of Liberia and Nigeria believe the UN is no longer fit for purpose
Real-life problems
China ponders the humans behind “virtual idols”
Should they have more rights?
The Intelligence
“We’re looking at a turbulent time ahead for France”—Macron’s parliamentary pasting
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