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    Why are feminists going topless?

    ITS activists have dressed as policemen and sex workers in Kiev; as marathon runners and Muslim men in London; and as nuns and maids in Paris. Femen, a Ukrainian...

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Protestors for Femen, a Ukrainian women's movement, demonstrate topless. Why are some feminists going bare-breasted?

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    The Economist - Jun 1st 2013

    This week in The Economist: British politics and the young | The world’s next great leap forward | Dealing with Russia | Colombia and the FARC | Low-emission cars

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    The new issue of The Economist is now available to view online via our website:

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    Aztec Tiger or Aztec Kitten?

    By The Economist @EconAmericas

    MEXICO'S previously fast-growing economy has suffered a dramatic downturn in recent months. Our correspondent discusses what the country's new government can do to...

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    Video: Our correspondent discusses Mexico's dramatic economic downturn

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    Bumped up

    AIRLINES often sell more seats than they have available on the basis that some passengers will cancel or not show up. If too many passengers do present themselves,...

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    The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled Air Canada's compensation package for overbooked flights is unreasonable

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    This week we have two different regional versions of our cover June 1st – 7th 2013

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    First, the good news...

    A WEEK after some off-the-cuff remarks by Pope Francis which sounded like good news for atheists, secular newspapers and news agencies are still trying to make sense...

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    Recent remarks by Francis were enough to generate a flurry of news reports that "atheists get to heaven"

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    A recent report documents abuse of Somalis, living in Kenya, in the name of security

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    Half a century on

    AS WORKERS put the final touches to the mighty complex of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital and long-time headquarters of the AU and its...

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    One of the African Union's main goals was to "unite Africa". This has not generally happened

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    Drawing the battle lines

    IN DECEMBER, less than three weeks after taking over as China’s new Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping had some encouraging words for advocates of political reform....

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    In the past few days the idea of Chinese constitutionalism has come under a barrage of Communist Party fire

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    Let sleeping clerics lie

    THE city of Bologna, by reputation a stronghold of leftism, has just held a referendum on whether the municipality should continue helping with the cost of private...

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    Many Italians are torn between affection for the Catholic church and exasperation with its failings

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    Access to energy

    By The Economist @ECONdailycharts

    SOME 1.7 billion people gained access to electricity, and 1.6 billion to modern fuels for household cooking between 1990 and 2010. The world's population increased...

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    Universal access to modern energy is one of the objectives of the UN's Sustainable Energy for All initiative

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    Up, but not out

    WHAT a difference a year makes. Last May Greece seemed to be heading out of the euro. Lagging reforms, political in-fighting and violent protests had worn out...

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    Greece is still in recession, but recovery could be around the corner

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    A decade of division

    By The Economist @EconAmericas

    ON MAY 25th President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner threw a lively party to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of her late husband Néstor Kirchner’s...

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    May 25th marked a decade of Kirchner rule in Argentina

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    Gruel today, gruel tomorrow

    By The Economist @EconSciTech

    EARLIER this year Asda was among a number of British supermarkets shamed because some of their beef products were found to contain horsemeat. Luckily, consumers are...

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    Trending: A complete food replacement for those disinclined or too busy to cook, is about to hit shelves in America

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    Researchers at Texas Tech University plan to absorb spilled oil with cotton

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    Beware the spectre of inflation

    By The Economist @EconUS

    IN THE current issue, Lexington takes a look at Rand Paul, Kentucky's junior senator and a probable contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination....

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    Rand Paul, a Kentucky senator, argues that high levels of public debt can lead to higher or even hyper-inflation

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    Stairway to heaven

    By The Economist @ECONdailycharts

    How deadly are the world's highest mountains?ON MAY 29th 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to stand atop Mount Everest in the Himalayas....

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    : Today's chart reveals how deadly the world's highest mountains can be

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    What exactly divides Sunni and Shia Islam and how deep does the rift go?

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    Coming in

    ACROSS Croatia many parties are planned. After 12 years’ slog the country will join the European Union on July 1st. Foreign dignitaries will come to toast the...

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    Across Croatia many parties are planned. After 12 years' slog the country will join the European Union on July 1st

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