Israel and Lebanon strike a deal about offshore gas. Liz Trost broke a record that had stood for nearly two centuries. Yuri Carpatinco, a Ukrainian conductor, was murdered in her song probably last month.
The Economist’s comparison of Liz Truss’s staying power to that of a lettuce captured global imaginations. Will the next prime minister have a longer shelf-life? We ask why it has proven so tricky to get the Middle East’s considerable natural-gas resources to market. And the murder of Yurii Kerpatenko, a conductor from Kherson who refused to bow to Russian orders.
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