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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist ...

But investors aren't panicking yet ...

John McDermott, our chief Africa correspondent, on what a murky vote says about democracy across the continent ...

The growing shortage is causing panic in Ukraine and elsewhere ...

The growing shortage is causing panic in Ukraine and elsewhere ...

A state wounded by extremism tries to guard against it ...

Lies, damned lies and stock markets ...

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, how the city became a haven for smuggled artefacts ...

Matthew Holehouse, our public policy editor, asks whether words matter as much as deeds in Westminster ...

The "ice-age" generation has been cursed several times over ...