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Terror and the Internet Qatar among the pigeons China’s polluted soil The end of causality TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY: Civilian drones JUNE 10TH–16TH 2017 Terror and the internet Contents The Economist June 10th 2017 5 7 The world this week 32 Opioids and lawsuits Ohio high 33 Climbing Leaders Rock stars 9 Curbing jihadists 34 Lexington Terror and the internet North Korea 10 Qatar Donald does Doha The Americas 10 The Federal Reserve Check yourself 35 Haiti A time to sow 11 Education in India Skilled immigrants America’s A waste of 260m minds 37 Bello The bogeyman of Mexico new permanent residents are 12 Soil pollution in China arriving better educated than Buried poison ever before, page 30 On the cover Middle East and Africa Technology firms could do Letters 39 Qatar and Saudi Arabia more to counter terror on the A futile family feud 14 On Israel, Singapore, internet—within limits: cinema, writers, GDP 40 Egypt’s crackdown leader, page 9. Tech giants The punishments of Sisi fuss are under fire for facilitating 41 Al-Qaeda terrorism. Though that is Briefing Yemen’s other war unfair, they are not blameless, 18 Pollution in China 41 Travel in Africa page 52. Another attack The bad earth sparks a debate on what A dream of Schengen police need to stop future 42 The Horn of Africa atrocities, page 49 Asia Shepherds staying put 21 Indian schools Now make sure they learn Technology Quarterly Qatar The Trumpian world The Economist online something order means a less stable Middle Civilian drones East: leader, page 10. Its Daily analysis and opinion to 22 Pakistan’s Khyber After page 42 Pakhtunkhwa neighbours cut off tiny Qatar, supplement the print edition, plus page 39 audio and video, and a daily chart Emergency treatment Economist.com 24 Veneration in North Korea Europe E-mail: newsletters and Follow my leader 43 Emmanuel Macron mobile edition 26 Cambodian elections A second French revolution Economist.com/email The grip starts to slip 44 Obesity Print edition: available online by 26 Press freedom in Japan Ravenously Hungary 7pm London time each Thursday Bristling with indignation 44 Welfare and refugees Economist.com/print A new Scandi model Audio edition: available online 45 Italy’s Mafia China to download each Friday A godfather’s end 27 Politics Economist.com/audioedition 46 Russia’s opposition Xi’s shadowy committees The contender 28 Media 48 Charlemagne A feisty magazine The environment China would Leo Varadkar’s task 29 Banyan be a more convincing green Still shy of the world stage champion if it did not treat Volume 423 Number 9044 Britain pollution data as state secrets: leader, page 12. Contaminated 49 Terrorism Published since September 1843 United States soil is the biggest neglected to take part in "a severe contest between Money or power? intelligence, which presses forward, and 30 Skilled immigration threat to public health in 50 Negotiating Brexit an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing Six degrees and separation China, page 18 our progress." The hardest test 31 The FBI Editorial offices in London and also: 51 Bagehot Atlanta, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Chicago, Loyalty schemes Lima, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Nairobi, The second eleven New Delhi, New York, Paris, San Francisco, 31 Kansas São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Back to black Washington DC 32 Puerto Rico Admit one 1 Contents continues overleaf 6 Contents The Economist June 10th 2017 International Science and technology 52 Terrorism online 68 Hurricanes Fighting cyber-jihadists Eyes on the storm 54 The stabbing intifada 69 Early man How to spot a lone wolf Even earlier man 70 Blindness Business White cane 2.0 55 Clean energy 70 Microelectronics We’ve got the power It’s a wrap 56 Iberdrola 71 Causality The BRICs The big four The end of causality If time is The storage question Does one thing lead to developing economies emerge another? fuzzy, that has implications for from a bad dream, page 62 57 Ride-hailing wars the idea of causality, page 71 Lyft’s big lift 58 Air-traffic control Books and arts Trump’s plans 72 Piet Mondrian Subscription service Geometry man For our full range of subscription offers, 58 Replica food in Japan including digital only or print and digital Sampuru chef 73 Football combined visit Secrets and successes Economist.com/offers 59 New retail techniques You can subscribe or renew your subscription Body language 73 Botany by mail, telephone or fax at the details below: The plant messiah Telephone: +65 6534 5166 60 Digital mapping Facsimile: +65 6534 5066 The road ahead 74 Gail Godwin’s fiction Web: Economist.com/offers Sun, sea and spectres E-mail: [email protected] 61 Schumpeter Post: The Economist China Inc 74 Sir Hans Sloane Subscription Centre, Hoarder extraordinaire Tanjong Pagar Post Office Education in India The PO Box 671 Finance and economics 75 Johnson Singapore 910817 country has made huge Hyphen harrumph Subscription for 1 year (51 issues)Print only progress on getting children 62 Emerging markets Australia A$465 into school. 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(P) No.030/09/2016 PPS 677/11/2012(022861) The world this week The Economist June 10th 2017 7 ed just14 months ago, will At least19 people were killed in Gulfstate. They accused it, Politics secure a parliamentary major- Kabul and another 90 injured without providing evidence, ity in an election. The first when the funeral ofthe son of ofsupporting and promoting round is on June 11th, the sec- a prominent Afghan senator terrorism. Donald Trump ond on June 18th. was targeted by bombers. The tweeted his approval, perhaps senator’s son had died during forgetting that Qatar hosts a Building a presence protests calling fortighter large American air base. In a new report, the Pentagon security in the Afghan capital said that China was building following the recent bomb In a rare terror assault on Iran’s fighter-sized hangars, fixed- near the diplomatic area, in capital, Islamic State (IS) weapons positions and other which 150 people are now claimed responsibility fortwo military infrastructure on three known to have died. attacks in Tehran, one at the islands it has built in the South Iranian parliament and one at China Sea. It said that when Tight margins the tomb ofAyatollah Khomei- complete, the facilities would With most ofthe vote counted ni, in which at least12 people enable China to base three in the governor’s race in the were killed. Eight people were killed in regiments offighters in the State ofMexico, which bor- London when three Islamists disputed Spratly Islands. ders Mexico City, Alfredo del American-backed Kurdish-led drove a van into pedestrians Mazo Maza, the governing forces in Syria began an assault on London Bridge and then South Korea’s new president, Institutional Revolutionary on Raqqa, the “capital” ofIS’s went on a stabbing spree in the Moon Jae-in, suspended the Party’s candidate, appeared to so-called caliphate. The city trendy Borough Market neigh- deployment ofTHAAD, an have defeated Delfina Gómez, has been encircled forweeks, bourhood. Almost 50 people American missile shield, for at from the left-wing Morena but this is the first time the were injured. The three attack- least a year. China opposes the party. The election in Mexico’s jihadists’ opponents have ers were killed within eight shield and has stepped up the most populous state was a test entered the city limits. minutes by armed police, who pressure on Seoul recently, ofstrength ahead ofnext were praised fortheir swift threatening sanctions. year’s presidential ballot. South Africa unexpectedly response. But questions were Morena alleges that the PRI slumped into recession after asked about why the men had bought votes and has demand- the economy contracted by been free to operate, given that ed a recount.
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