Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT) Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon North Korea: Handle with extreme care The French election: Time to decide Islam in Indonesia: The rise of intolerance Airlines in America: Whack-a-passenger Corporate-bond markets: Broken dealers Britain’s election: Game change On trade, horses, legal aid, science, pronouns, United Airlines: Letters to the editor The French election: La lutte The death penalty: And then there were none Politics: Ossoff’s face-off The border barrier: Backs to the wall Immigrants and deficits: Neither burdens nor saviours Post office v pooches: Leash the hounds Health-care costs: An arm and a leg Population change: Out of the frozen north Lexington: Divided by a common border Corruption in Latin America (1): Fachin victims Corruption in Latin America (2): The long arm of the policía Argentine history: Two shades of blue Bello: Chile in a Spanish mirror North Korea: Strategic confusion The race for governor of Jakarta: Division in diversity A lynching in Pakistan: Places of darkness Vietnamese naval diplomacy: Dock and cover Authoritarianism in Japan: Nabbing imaginary terrorists Banyan: Canaries in the coal fumes Climate change: No cooling Bicycle sharing: The return of pedal power Africa’s slums: The great urban racket Namibia’s economy: Will it be NEEEFcapped? Algeria: Stability or stagnation? Gaza: Hamas divided Islam’s changing fashions: Don’t say sexy Turkey’s constitutional referendum: Erdogan the maleficent Protests in French Guiana: Failure to launch McJobs: The tempest Energy in Ireland: Bog down, wind up Charlemagne: In the shadow of Willy Brandt A snap election: Back into battle The class of 2017: One of us? The Liberal Democrats: A Brexit bounce The opposition: Hard work for Labour The election in Scotland: Mountains to climb Northern Ireland: A blow upon a bruise The economic background: Ride the wave Bagehot: Theresa May, Tory of Tories Neglected tropical diseases: Winning the endgame America and China: Disorder under heaven Pax Americana: An archipelago of empire America in the Pacific: The American lake Pax Sinica: The travails of a regional hegemon Asian neighbours: When elephants fight The risk of conflict: Avoiding the trap China’s internet giants: Three kingdoms, two empires AkzoNobel: The varnished truth Donald Trump and tourism: Keep out Recreational vehicles: On the road Fast food in Japan: Feeling sandwiched Internet regulation: Reload Schumpeter: Life in the public eye Corporate-bond markets: Click to trade Buttonwood: Voting with their wallets Sugar in the EU: A sweet deal American banks: Happy returns World Economic Outlook: Hope springs Paying for infrastructure: Private matters Crossrail: The skeleton crew Free exchange: Donaldson’s difficult idea Cloning voices: You took the words right out of my mouth Clearing landmines: Illuminating the target The price of secrecy: Weighing heavy on the soul Inebriation: Frat-boy crayfish New fiction: Cleaning up Dos Passos and Hemingway: The winds of war Studying wine: Learn how to smell New fiction: Argentinian eco-horror “The Handmaid’s Tale”: Under his eye Yevgeny Yevtushenko: More than a poet Interactive indicators Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Japan Markets