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OCT 19TH 2019 Donald Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds is a blow to America’s credibility
The world this week
Politics this week Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders
Geopolitics Who can trust Trump’s America? The consequences of betraying the Kurds
Brexit Beyond the summit If Britain and the European Union agree on a deal, voters should get a say on it too
Climate-change targets Omissions Net-zero targets are all the rage. They are a necessary but not su cient condition for ghting climate change
Somewhere over the rainbow The need for speed J , j
Briefing
Turkey and Syria No way to say goodbye Removing American troops from Syria triggered an invasion, betrayed an ally and trashed the national interest
Kurdish homelands No xed abode America’s abandonment caps a century of global duplicity Europe
Spain Dreams and nightmares
Hungary Orban gets the Erdogan treatment
The Nobel prize in literature Explosive
Poland Zlotys for tots win lots of votes
Charlemagne Ursula’s bumpy start
Britain Scotland The other referendum
The Queen’s Speech Ma’am’s manifesto
Electoral law Identity politics
Cardinal Newman A saint for all seasons
Economics in schools Sample bias
Sirius Minerals In a hole
The solo-living boom Making room
Bagehot The hazard at the Home O ce
United States Homelessness Urban myths
Flourishing African languages The other African-Americans
School hours The bigger sleep
Private prisons Capital punishment
Emergency preparedness Tips for troglodytes
Lexington The unravelling of Rudy Giuliani
Middle East and Africa Cyril Ramaphosa The fuse is lit
Liberia How convenient
Congo’s rainforest That shrinking feeling
The Nobel peace prize Abiy wins a medal
Tunisian politics A new hope
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The Americas Argentina’s elections The two faces of Peronism
Bolivia’s election Morales’ hazard
Bello An equatorial earthquake
Asia Japan’s monarchy Slave to the tortoise shell
India v China Forced smiles
Cotton in Uzbekistan A radical plan to abolish slave labour
Banyan For king, if not country
China
Home schooling Well read v well red
Chinese citizenship Moving the goalposts
Anger in the chamber A storm in Legco
Chaguan Testing times for tofu International
Remotest Russia and Arctic America So near and yet so far
Business
British Airways The world’s 19th-favourite airline
B tl b Bartleby Just about managing
Artificial intelligence Human-machine interface
Corporate governance Power decouples
Medical psychedelics Shroom to grow
Luxury goods A tale of two handbags
Cosmetics Looking wan
Schumpeter The stu paradox
Finance & economics
Danske and Swedbank Northern blights
Buttonwood From A-list to delist
Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy Territorial claims The world economy Foggy outlook
Trade and emissions Out of sight
Free exchange Rich economics
Science & technology
Sustainable forestry If you go down to the woods today
Fish scales The mighty pirarucu
Gross national happiness Reading between the lines
Follow my leader Trilobites marched along
Cannabis and pregnancy Smoked out
Books & arts Political violence What had to be done
Spy fiction The enemy within
Johnson Ill-gotten gains
Economic and financial indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail Cyril Ramaphosa is running out of time to reform South Africa
Banks and money-laundering Nordic noir When it comes to dirty money owing through the nancial system, Europe needs more of a killer instinct
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Letters
Letters to the editor On the single market, trans pupils, Eton, smart technology, the people, Boris Johnson, marijuana Alcohol and health A sober brawl
Obituary
Alexei Leonov The blue of Earth