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The World Today The Beijing bullet train makes tracks for Europe While Britain dithers over a 20-year project to lay 500km of high-speed track to connect London to Birmingham and the north of England, China will spend no less than $58 billion this year on high-speed rail projects. Beijing’s ambitions do not stop at its borders.
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The World Today Lessons from William Dalrymple's 'Return of a King' The lessons to be learnt from a British debacle that cost an Afghan king his reputation and his life
The World Today The Peace Palace opens in The Hague Hope on the eve of the Great War, August 28, 1913
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