Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday 21 June 2013

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The Economist
Thursday June 20th 2013
Editor's picks
This week we put the rise of Persian power on the cover. It is tempting to conclude from the smiling face and reassuring words of Hassan Rohani, Iran's newly elected president, that the country will become easier to live with, but that seems unlikely. The progress of Iran's nuclear programme means that it will very soon be able to get a bomb if it wants one, and the crumbling of states around it means that its clout in the region is growing. This is not the time for the West to disengage from the Middle East.

John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief
Tibet
Is China changing its line?
Welcome signs that some officials are at last starting to question policies on Tibet
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The end of media empires
Breaking up is quite easy to do
Media empires are becoming more focused, and shareholders like it
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High-class horse-whisperer
Our obituary of Sir Henry Cecil
Sir Henry Cecil, champion racehorse-trainer, died on June 11th, aged 70
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Politics this week
Petr Necas stepped down as the Czech Republic's prime minister after Jana Nagyova, his chief of staff (and allegedly also his mistress), was charged in two criminal probes. The president, Milos Zeman, a leftist and fierce critic of the departing cabinet, will choose the next prime minister
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Business this week
A parliamentary committee published a long-awaited report into the failings of the British banking system. Among its recommendations it suggested creating a new criminal offence for the "reckless misconduct in the management of a bank".
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