Game of drones: can Ukraine pull ahead?
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The Economist
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Three months into the counteroffensive, the military is reaping the fruits of several months of drone development. But as the war continues, will it be able to scale up its capacity and outpace Russia? New international laws cracking down on Caribbean tax havens seem to be working (10:03). And politicians reignite an old debate on official language use in Spain (17:21).
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| 0:50.5 | When it comes to tax avoidance, there have long been a lot of dark going on |
| 0:55.2 | under the Caribbean sun. Our correspondent travels to the British Virgin Islands, |
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| 1:07.6 | And Spain is an incredibly diverse country, complicating the question of which language |
| 1:13.3 | or languages can be used in official contexts. |
| 1:16.9 | Now a change in the lower house has reignited old debates that could shift the balance of power. |
| 1:25.9 | But first. |
| 1:36.2 | In Ukraine, air raids and explosions have once again lit up the sky |
| 1:41.1 | during a night of intense aerial warfare. |
| 1:50.4 | In the skies over the capital, dozens of Russian missiles were brought down by air |
| 1:54.8 | defenses, with burning wreckage falling to the streets. |
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