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The World in Brief from The Economist
Au revoir Christine Lagarde; Ben-Gvir targets Arab parties, and more
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Christine Lagarde will step down as president of the European Central Bank in February. Also, Israel’s Jewish supremacist national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said that leaders of the country’s Arab-led political parties were “suspected of involvement with Qatari funds” and called for their arrest.
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