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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every

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

When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiyahmed set the army against breakaway forces in Tigray in November,

he expected the conflict to last mere weeks.

Now, amid a growing famine, rebels have run the army out, threatening stability in Ethiopia and the whole region. And it's the 4th of July this

weekend, a benchmark time for big Hollywood releases. But it wasn't that way until the summer screening of Jaws in 1975.

And there's still never been a successful movie

tackling the history of the holiday itself.

First up, though.

The variant of the coronavirus called Delta is causing alarm,

as it swiftly becomes the cause of a majority of new COVID-19 cases all over the world.

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