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USA
The eye of the storm
BOEING’S factory at Everett, near Seattle, is the largest building in the world, as befits the world’s biggest planemaker. From within its cavernous halls a new passenger jet emerges every working day. After an empty fuselage enters at one end of the factory, it can take as little as a ...
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Qatar Egitto India
Going great guns
BIG European defence firms had cause for gloom not long ago. Austerity limited military spending on the continent, and no obvious external threat justified raising it. Terrorism deserved most attention. Officials in NATO countries promised to devote 2% of GDP to defence, but Europeans generally fell well short, with Germany ...
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Egitto
Mamluks and maliks
Best of friends IN HIS CAIRO office overlooking the Nile, a businessman keeps his mobile phone in a glass jar on his desk. Elsewhere in the city a writer keeps hers in the fridge. If smartphones were once the tools of young revolutionaries across the Arab world, the fear is that ...
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Egitto
Which Islam?
The Muslim Brotherhood. Founded in Egypt in 1928 during the struggle against British rule, the Brotherhood is a broad-based Sunni movement with branches in many countries. It seeks to transform society through da’awa (proselytising) and by winning power through elections. Although a Brotherhood government was toppled in Egypt in 2013, ...
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Russia Turchia Armenia
Unintended consequences
THE MODERN FRONTIERS of the Arab world only vaguely resemble the blue and red grease-pencil lines secretly drawn on a map of the Levant in May 1916, at the height of the first world war. Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot were appointed by the British and French governments respectively ...
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Black gold, white gold
Profitable at almost any price FROM THE AIR, the red sand dunes of the Empty Quarter stretch out beyond the bend of the earth, like countless piles of powdered brick. Between the mounds the winds have exposed patches of grey: salt flats that encrust the rock, and great riches of oil. ...
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Brasile
Presidente do Conselho de Bradesco: 'Temos esperança e confiança no novo governo'
Lázaro de Mello Brandão ressalta que o Brasil tem economia 'forte' e uma população 'trabalhadora'; para Trabuco, presidente do banco, luta contra rece...
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua no es para peatones
Nuestras ciudades priorizan, cada vez más, sus escasas inversiones en torno a los vehículos, en satisfacer sus necesidades de circulación[...]
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Argentina
Argentina: Hacienda y Finanzas confirmó apertura de nuevo blanqueo
El ministro de Hacienda y Finanzas también indicó que pagarán la deuda con los jubilados con sentencia firme en la Justicia
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Spagna
El espacio sociocultural Tendido 11 ya está en Las Ventas (Madrid)
Tendido 11, de la empresa Taurodelta, vuelve a Las Ventas (Madrid) hasta el 5 de junio para crear un espacio sociocultural taurino…