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    Special ReportThriving Cities
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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
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    Meloni has reduced the flow, but some methods are controversial

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    Keir Starmer’s talks with Italy’s rightwing PM came after eight people died trying to cross English Channel on Sunday

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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
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    Also in this newsletter: EU asylum applications stable amid frenzied immigration debate

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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
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    Starmer to meet Meloni for advice on tackling small-boat migration

    British premier has promised tougher border measures and to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle people

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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
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    Prosecutors seek 6-year sentence for Italy’s Salvini over migrant ship

    Deputy prime minister could face prison over episode in which vessel carrying rescued migrants was forbidden from docking

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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    EU immigration
    Eight migrants die in English Channel as tragedies mount

    French government laments this year’s ‘terrible’ toll, said to be worst since 2018

    A damaged migrants’ boat after a failed attempt to cross the Channel led to the death of eight people near the beach of Ambleteuse, northern France
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    Older workers are sticking around and that is no bad thing

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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    News in-depthChinese society
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    Women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family

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  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
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  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    The best books of the week
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  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Storytelling with the pioneer of ‘narrative medicine’

    Rita Charon believes that letting patients tell their own stories is the best way to fix a broken system

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    US election’s most bizarre Maga-world conspiracy theory lands in Springfield

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    Europe Innovative Lawyers Awards 2024: the winners

    Awards highlights include: generative AI, social mobility in law firms, dealmaking, sustainability and the most innovative law firms and individuals

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