The Economist
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Illustration of a bull climbing a mountain of smiley faces
Buttonwood
America’s bull market has entered its manic phase
Options markets show optimism is giving way to euphoria
A man stands among a cluster of goat carcasses outside his homestead in Jabi-bar village near Rhamu town, northeastern Kenya.
Boy problems
The coming El Niño could be the strongest ever recorded
It is bad news for a warming world
An Iranian woman walks past a portrait of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in downtown Tehran
Bombed out
Iran’s battered economy will take years to recover from the war
Its leaders want sanctions relief and aid for reconstruction
illustration of an elderly person siting by a canal in a traditional Chinese water town
Chaguan
Comfort meets constraint in China’s most “liveable” city
A high-income, low-pressure existence is not all it’s cracked up to be
Former looter Lion with the statue of Shiva and Skanda that he looted in the 90' within the Koh Ker complex.
What’s yours is mine
The people behind the largest art heist in history
A new book looks at the trade in masterpieces pilfered from Cambodia