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      How China can avoid the Japan trap

      Income needs to accrue to those who will spend it — but this will require redistribution on a significant scale

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      An ethnic Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh, looks on from a car upon arrival in Armenia’s Goris
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Industrial metals
      Glencore traded thousands of tonnes of Russian copper through Turkey

      Shipments via third countries obscure Europe’s true reliance on Russian commodities

      A worker inspects copper cathode and anode sheets in an electrolytic tank at the Uralelectromed copper refinery, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Russia
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      Oliver Dowden says ‘engaging with China’ on developing technology is necessary to deal with societal-scale risks

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      People line up to buy the newly launched iPhone 15 and other Apple products at a store in Beijing on Friday
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      White House says targeting dissidents in other countries ‘absolutely unacceptable’

      India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and US president Joe Biden among world leaders pay respect at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
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      The novelists painting a human picture of Modi’s divided India

      Fiction goes where news falls short, bringing depth and nuance to the lives of people crudely labelled by politics or religion

      A Muslim girl rides a bicycle past an untethered bull on a street in northern India
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      John Kerry outburst reflects divide between developed and developing economies

      John Kerry at the Climate Ambition Summit at the UN in New York
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
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      Israeli opposition rejects idea for Saudi Arabia to enrich its own uranium

      Civilian nuclear programme is one element of a highly complex US-brokered proposal to normalise Israel-Saudi relations

      Yair Lapid delivers a speech
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      Prime minister’s explosive claim about June murder has energised Vancouver’s Punjabi communities

      A sign outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple is seen after the killing on its grounds in June 2023 of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Surrey,
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      Turkey raises interest rates for fourth time since June

      Central bank lifts borrowing costs to 30% as part of efforts to tackle high inflation

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      China welcomes Syrian president Assad for summit

      First visit since start of civil war as Beijing expands its influence in Middle East

      Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, centre, and his wife Asma arrive in Hangzhou, China on Thursday
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