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• Arabesque

  

  WITH a bright “Wesh meuf!” a French teenager hails a friend in slang that would appal linguistic purists. It is the sort of counter-cultural vernacular usually... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Not So Forza Any More

  

  AT A dinner just before Italy’s parliament took its summer recess, Silvio Berlusconi, a former prime minister, told a group of deputies from his Forza Italia... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bombs Away

  OZGUR TEKE had high hopes after Turkey’s elections in June sent the moderate, pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) to parliament for the first time. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Kremlin’s New Show Trials

  

  THE latest episode in Russia’s long history of judicial travesties played out this week in a stuffy courtroom in Rostov-on-Don, a provincial city near the... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Bonfire of the Vans of Cheese

  

  Russian raclette SOVIET news programmes were often recently filled with cheerful reports of ever-greater harvests, even as store shelves remained stubbornly... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Man Who Told Us So

  

  THE intellectual history of the West in the 20th century was dominated by arguments over totalitarianism: its causes, effects—and possible justification. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Correction: Article of Faith

  Correction In The World If supplement published last week, the scenario on NATO (“Article of faith”, August 1st) included a misleading reference to the number o... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Strict Order

  

  EVERY summer, southern Europe’s tourist spots look forward to the arrival of planeloads of Germans on holiday. But this year encounters between Germans and thei... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Confirms Greek Bailout Breakthrough

  The EU commission has confirmed a “technical” accord with Greece on its third bailout, with likely IMF participation. News from Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• All That Glisters

  

  Lightning fast, squeaky clean WITH two weeks until the Athletics World Championships in Beijing, fans of track and field are looking forward to an opportunity t... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Learning from the Jungle

  

  Crashing Britain’s gates A TINY African girl breaks into a jig as an Arabic pop song gives way to the cheerful soul of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy”, scourge of... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Wiki Treason

  

  “Enemies of the state”, in Merkel pose IN FEBRUARY and April the German blog Netzpolitik.org published two posts with leaked information about the plans of... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Duda: ‘A New Chapter of Polish Transformation’

  Poland’s new president Andrzej Duda took over the presidential palace on Thursday, heralding a shift toward national conservatism in the country. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Less Crazy After All These Years

  ANDRZEJ DUDA, who took office as Poland’s president on August 6th, says he prizes Poland’s relationship with Germany. That marks a welcome change for his... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Snail Loses Pace

  

  GÜNTER GRASS, an enthusiast for the centre-left ideas of Willy Brandt, chronicled the slow post-war rise of social democracy in an elegant memoir called “From... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Making Waves, If Not Ruling Them

  

  MORE than a year after America and its allies set out to punish the Kremlin for backing rebels in Ukraine and annexing Crimea, Russia is finding new friends... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] Europe and Free Speech: A Race to the Bottom?

  Whether dealing with terrorism, extremism, racism or privacy concerns, the European default solution seems to involve chipping away at freedom of expression. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Eternal Headaches

  MAYORS need watching, as any national leader knows. Some are terrible liabilities, like the crack-loving Marion Barry who ran Washington, DC, until 1999. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Analysis] Google Has Own Idea of What ‘right to Be Forgotten’ Means

  Google argues it does not have to apply EU law on its international website google.com, only on its European versions. News from Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Sweet Jewish Moment

  

  FOR Rilli Willow, as for many others in Berlin this week, a “circle is closing”. Her great-aunt Dora was once a Jewish opera singer in Berlin. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL