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Kana Inagaki’s top reads this week: The Israel-Palestine conflict | Foxconn’s car ambitions | Net zero climate targets
Joanna Kao’s top reads this week: Emotion recognition | Grocery battle royale | Much dogecoin
Katrina Manson’s top reads this week: India’s Covid crisis | BlackRock under fire | Shelters for the soul
Jennifer Thompson’s top reads this week: The key to Trump’s finances | Mary Beard on why Classics matter | Corporate branding blunders
Yuan Yang’s top reads this week: How Chauvin’s prosecutors won | China Tech’s ‘revolving door’ | Inside Scotland’s pandemic
Patricia Nilsson’s top reads this week: Westminster lobbying scandal | Unilever challenges beauty ideals | Jack Ma’s fall from grace
Kesewa Hennessy’s top reads this week: Credit Suisse reveals $4.7bn losses | IMF forecasts uneven road to recovery | Biden’s moderate advantage
Brooke Masters’ top reads this week: ‘WhiteRock’ culture questioned | Medics report PTSD | Mexico’s economy turns back
Janine Gibson’s top reads this week: Vaccine questions | A manifesto for rebooting globalisation | Meet the Stripe billionaire brothers
Elaine Moore’s top reads this week: A royal race row | Gupta empire’s steel is tested | William Dalrymple’s search for paradise
Tabby Kinder’s top reads this week: Murdoch at 90 | Greensill’s demise | Lunch with the ‘CEO whisperer’
Jude Webber’s top reads this week: How McKinsey lost its ‘mystique’ | Tragedy on K2 | The fight against vaccine hesitancy
Kana Inagaki’s top reads this week: Bill Gates’ green vision | China’s grip on rare earths | Red lipstick a feminist no-brainer
Sarah Provan’s top reads this week: Amsterdam takes London's trading crown | KPMG boss gets a comeuppance | Brazil, China and soyabeans
Lilah Raptopoulos’s top reads this week: A vaccination milestone | Climate Capital launches | Brooklyn’s witchy wonderland
Jennifer Thompson’s top reads this week: Vaccine nationalism | Putin’s greatest threat | Lunch with Bellingcat’s founder
Claire Bushey’s top reads this week: Joe Biden’s challenge | Local news crisis | Costume drama’s radical roots
Laura Pitel’s top reads this week: Trump impeachment — what next? | Voices from the Arab Spring | The rise of workplace surveillance
Chloe Cornish’s top reads this week: A dark day for Washington | Music’s gold rush | Lunch with Assange’s lawyer
Covid, what went wrong | The fraud of the decade | Inside the culture of outrage
Alice Hancock’s top reads this week: Brexit’s final act | Saudi Aramco’s troubled culture | Tokyo’s pastoral playground
Kesewa Hennessy’s top reads this week: Arcadia’s collapse | Vaccine milestone | Women of the year
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: Yellen’s second act| Hitchhiker’s guide to the City| Lunch with the McDonald’s chief executive
Kana Inagaki’s top reads this week: Generation Covid | Inside Moderna | Lockdown health
Charlotte Middlehurst’s top reads this week: Behind the Covid vaccine breakthrough | America’s next Treasury chief? | Banks face heat on fossil fuel lending
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