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Internet chatter and Oklahoma arrest of alleged would-be IS attacker indicate terror group’s planning

The history of ‘decapitation strategies’ tells us it is almost impossible to know what effect assassinating a key figure such as Yahya Sinwar will have, writes Jason Burke

PC Ruby Begum was allegedly in contact with a woman living inside the Islamic State caliphate in Syria and ‘expressed an interest in teachings of extremist preachers’

Economists working on macroeconomic policy – things like taxes and spending, interest rates and border controls on flows of trade and money – often refer to a set of key relationships governments can influence. In the textbooks, each of those relationships is drawn as a curve in a graph.