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The World Today: April & May 2018: The cancer in the global system

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Graft is not just a moral and political problem, it can also  be an economic disaster, writes Sean Hagan

Photo by Sean Randall/Getty Images.

The City’s money markets clean up an estimated £90 billion of illicit funds each year, writes Robert Barrington

Supporters of the Five Star Movement demonstate outside the Pantheon in Rome

Election will have repercussions for Europe, warns Brunello Rosa

Progress on peace deal requires a new government, writes Jonathan Rynhold

Trisha de Borchgrave talks to corruption expert Sarah Chayes about the threat to world order

Pride week participants enjoy a picnic outside Beirut

Lebanon hopes to repeat the success of the first LGBT celebrations in the Arab world, writes Nicole El Khawaja

Corruption is almost as old as the hills, but it is rising up the international policy agenda for a simple reason: the unrestricted flow of money around the world means that this is no longer an issue for each country to address, but a looming global economic disaster.

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An outline of the different forms corrupt acts can take

Far-Right nationalists demonstrate in Warsaw on Polish Independance Day, November 2017

Janek Lasocki on a series of foreign policy gaffes

Beyza Unal on the threat posed by hackers to nuclear weapon security

Filming on the set of 'Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' in 1963

Heather Williams on how the superpowers can cut the risk of deterrence failing

Texting is developing its own language … and it comes with an age limit, writes Marie Le Conte

Doreen Lawrence in front of a picture of her son Stephen

Brian Cathcart recalls the impact of Stephen Lawrence’s death on Britain

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Charity worker bringing safe drinking water to Madagascar

Migrant labourers in Côte d’Ivoire carry bags of cocoa beans to waiting lorries

Daragh Neville on an exposé of the cocoa industry

Soviet partisans prepare a newspaper in 1943 in the Vitebsk region, now part of Belarus

Andrew Wilson appreciates a resilient defence of objective journalism

Alan Philps applauds youthful exuberance but will stick with his more formal language

Quentin Peel looks at a series of essays on the effects of UK withdrawal

Rex Tillerson: fired by tweet

The aurora borealis over Finland

Finland overtook Norway to top the United Nation’s Happiness Index for the first time this year.

Military personnel in protective suits in Salisbury, Wiltshire

The reaction to the poisoning in Salisbury, Wiltshire, of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia has been widely compared with the Cold War days.

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