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Daniel McCarthy's US report; The bureaucracy behind ISIS; The architectural sacking of Paris

The announcement by Paul Ryan, Republican speaker of the House, that he is quitting politics, has implications for the mid term elections and for the factions within the Republican party. Who is he and why is he quitting? And all the rest of the week's political news from the US: Alongside the brutality of the ISIS regime sat a sometimes surprisingly efficient bureaucracy: Will the latest proposed skyscraper developments in Paris spell an end to its classical beauty?

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