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Land of extremes

Asia’s most expensive cities, ranked

Two familiar places lead the pack in EIU’s cost-of-living index

What’s the cozzie livs?

These are the world’s most expensive cities

EIU’s cost-of-living index shows where prices are highest

Chasing the American dream

Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?

We crunch the house-price data across every American county—and make a surprising finding

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Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities

More than a third of the dead are children

The broken record

The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals

Progress has been made. But not nearly enough

Too hot to handle

Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do

Researchers pin down the role of climate change

Not welcome here

Despite its sympathies, Egypt is unlikely to help Palestinian refugees

To understand why, look at another major conflict in the region

A longer problem

Don’t be fooled by America’s “new” supply chains

Despite attempts to diversify, they still lead back to exactly where you would expect

The long war

Is Ukraine’s counter-offensive over?

Evidence from The Economist’s war tracker

The arsenal of democracy

Does America have enough weapons to support its allies?

It could face wars in the Middle East, Ukraine and Taiwan

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The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space

Our satellite data can map the risk of a widening conflict

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Could the Israel-Hamas war trigger unrest across the Arab world?

Three countries are now more vulnerable to instability, according to EIU’s risk modelling