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Pressure from America and its allies can prevent a return to fighting
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Air power, full-on invasion, arming the opposition: the result is usually the same, writes Philip Gordon

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

John McDermott, our chief Africa correspondent, writes about the Middle East crisis

Conservationists want to make the world pay to look after its rainforests and wildlife

Tom Gardner, our Africa correspondent, watches an American-led effort to fight jihadism

A new crop of health deals is unlikely to meet the needs of recipient countries