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Many people think that loneliness is a problem of the rich world: societies become atomised as people chase wealth. But surveys suggest this isn’t so. The loneliest region in the world, they find, is Africa. And the loneliest place within it is Madagascar. The Economist went there to
find out why.
The
biggest protests in Iran
since 2022, sparked by the dire state of the economy, have spread from Tehran to several other cities. How the regime reacts may be shaped by two external forces: Binyamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. | 
