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Scurvy killed more sailors than shipwrecks, storms and cutlasses, writes Keith Thomson in a new book about pirates
Travelling incognito, we recently gained a rare glimpse inside the secretive gulag state of Eritrea. Our reporter found a country that has taken an even grimmer turn after 19 months of war
China began expanding its role in Africa for the same reason that America and Britain once did: to protect economic interests. But the impact of China’s military activity is unclear
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Just 8.4% of the world’s population live in a “full democracy” according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Democracy Index
Brazil is in desperate need of reform, but Jair Bolsonaro would make a disastrous president. Our cover this week
Donald Trump is politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office
How India's prime minister and his party are endangering the world's biggest democracy. Our cover this week
For more than 60 years motor-vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for young people in America. But since 2017 guns have killed more people between the ages of one and 24 ⬇️
The truth is sinking in that, by attacking Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has committed a catastrophic error. As the scale of his failure becomes clear, Russia will enter the most dangerous moment in this conflict
War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business. Our latest cover story explains how the calamity can be minimised
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