Date : 4/5/2019 5:42:44 PM
From : "The Economist News Desk"
To : itai_veruv@mail.gov.il
Subject : Khalifa Haftar, Libya’s strongest warlord, makes a push for Tripoli

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Friday | April 5th 2019

Libya
Capital gains?

Yesterday Khalifa Haftar, Libya’s strongest warlord, ordered his men to march on Tripoli. His self-styled Libyan National Army already controls the east and took the south in a lightning offensive earlier this year. Now it turns to the capital, home to a weak UN-backed government that has no army of its own. His move would be troubling enough under normal circumstances. But in a remarkable stroke of arrogance, the offensive coincides with a visit by António Guterres, the UN’s secretary-general

US-China trade
The art of the delay

Less than a week after the White House described trade talks in Beijing as “candid and constructive”, American and Chinese negotiators met again on Wednesday in Washington, DC. There is talk of a summit between the two countries’ presidents. But amid the upbeat noises are a few discordant notes. Without a deadline, the discussions could drag on, or even stall. Although the contours of a deal seem clear, the final items are always the trickiest. And even if a deal is struck, it may not be a good one

Brazil
Order over progress

Barracks throughout Brazil rang with the sounds of marches and fancy lunches recently after President Jair Bolsonaro ordered the army to commemorate the coup of 1964. Mr Bolsonaro has made no secret of his approval of the 21-year dictatorship, which shut down congress three times, severely restricted press freedom, tortured thousands of dissidents and murdered hundreds. The president’s attitude stems in part from his antipathy towards the political left, which he deems to be a source of immorality and corruption

Pop music
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Billie Eilish is both a product of the internet and someone who has been carefully nurtured by big corporations. She makes music that sounds as if it has been expertly finessed, but she and her brother wrote, recorded and produced all of her debut album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”, at home on their own. By employing both the new model of direct-to-fans popularity and the old model of artist development, Ms Eilish’s online stardom has crossed over into the mainstream

~6.30pm London


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