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Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT) Articles in this issue: The world this week KAL's cartoon Latin America: Brazil’s fall Travel visas: Sticker shock Republican tax plans: Be serious Global inflation: Low and behold Internet security: When back doors backfire On business, species, elections, whistleblowers, plurals, Donald Trump: Letters to the editor Brazil’s crisis: Irredeemable? Republican tax plans: Indecent disclosure Race on campus: Of slavery and swastikas Rating police officers: Revenge of the nerds Election forecasting: Prediction 2016 Lexington: Pitchfork politics Human rights in El Salvador: Digging for justice Argentina’s new president: A fast start Japan, South Korea and their history wars: Saying sorry for sex slavery Family planning in Vietnam: Running deer Thailand’s southern insurgency: No end in sight Simplifying Indian taxes: One country, but no single market Social media: Weibo warriors Economic ideology: Reagan’s Chinese echo Iraq: Reclaiming the ruins from Islamic State Christians in the Middle East: And then there were none Enforcing morality: No sex please, we’re Middle Eastern Ethiopia: What if they were really set free? Russia’s Far East: Snow job Vladivostok’s new casino: Russian roulette Spanish politics: The chore of the Spanish succession Poland’s religious politics: Courting disaster Educating refugees: Learning the hard way Funding the police: Counting up the coppers Floods: Northern waterhouse Bagehot: Bring on the tempest The unexplored world: A new age of discovery Travel visas: A strange sort of welcome Companies’ investment plans: From diggers to data centres Activists and resources companies: Icahn, you can’t Cruise lines: Eastward ho! Schumpeter: Social saints, fiscal fiends Global inflation: Low for longer The first venture capitalists: Fin-tech Buttonwood: Tales of the unexpected European insurance firms: One rule to bind them all South-East Asian integration: More hat than cattle Free exchange: Exit, pursued by bear Aircraft engines: Flying’s new gear The future of the Nobel prize: Throw caution to the wind? Meteorology: Barmy weather The Great War at midpoint: A most terrible year China and India: Clash of the titans Ukraine’s war-torn history: Keeping hope alive Non-Western classical music: Voyages of discovery New film: Bearing down New film: Correction: Whatever should I do? Obituary: Elsie Tulead: From missionary to firebrand Interactive indicators Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index GDP forecasts Markets