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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. In London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fastman.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Russia's indiscriminate destruction in Ukraine comes at a human cost that cannot be calculated.

Estimating damage to the country's infrastructure, housing, and economy isn't easy either.

We look at the scope of and the need for an international rebuilding plan.

For more than two years, the world has seen pandemic-driven shortages of consumer goods.

In South Africa, grocery stores are lacking not surgical masks or loo roll, but a dark,

viscous, jarred substance that much of the world finds revolting.

First up, though.

After 17 months of fighting, Ethiopia's civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

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