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Thursday July 29th 2010

Telefónica gets Brazil’s Vivo

Brazil calling

Telefónica overcomes Portugal’s objections to its takeover of Vivo by offering a fabulous price for the Brazilian jewel

Looking back on Tibet

Through the eyes of witnesses

Reading the first comprehensive examination of the post-riot crackdown in Tibet(20)

BP and its oil spill

Beyond the Horizon

And beyond Tony Hayward. BP seeks to put its troubles behind it—but they are not over yet

The rise and fall of Bretton Woods II

Slowing reserve growth

Experts debate how to bring Bretton Woods II to an end

Diplomacy and the internet

21st-century statecraft

It's the internet, old man. Everything's different now

David Cameron in Turkey

Disingenuous on the Bosphorous

Manufactured indignation does the British prime minister's cause no favours

The Khmers Rouges on trial

Judgment on S-21

Comrade Duch, former head of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, is found guilty of war crimes

The future of the sea

Fish food

In "Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food" Paul Greenberg considers what is happening in our oceans (10)

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Things the iPad will not change, number one

Ordering sushi

Unless, that is, you happen to be Japanese

Arizona's Senate race

Ad campaigning

Harry Reid and Sharron Angle do their best to avoid a profound ideological debate

From our blogs

Bagehot examines David Cameron's disingenuous defence of Turkey.

Asia view, a new blog, has a look at South Korea's craze for city-building.

Johnson marvels at the difficulty of translating the sound of Pushkin.

Democracy in America checks in from a meeting of state legislators.

Free exchange notes that America's housing market is up again.

Buttonwood explains the strengthening euro.

Babbage reports on another new record for solar-powered aviation.

Lexington ponders the name of an obscure sociologist.

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India's economy

Looking to the rain gods

A good monsoon won't solve India's inflation woes

Pakistan's army

Stand by your man

General Kayani's re-appointment comes at an awkward time

Quiz

Ten questions drawn from the current edition of The Economist, on topics ranging from the maintenance of the Mona Lisa to booking cheap flights to Iraq

Wikileaks

Are all leaks good?

We sit down for tea with Julian Assange

Johnson

What it's really like to be copy-edited

Why hyphens are useful, not holy

Debt

The low-growth threshold

When does debt drag down growth?

Prospero

Our new blog on books, arts and culture

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