Brazil's government pledged to cut the amount of illegal deforestation in the Amazon over the next decade to 5, 000 sq km (1, 930 square miles) a year, or less than half the current rate.

ECONOMIST: Politics this week

Many scholars trace the malady back a century when police began to take a cut from the wildly popular illegal lottery called the jogo de bicho.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Still, such funding is not illegal under Slovak law, and Mr Fico has long since cut ties with Penta.

ECONOMIST: Scandal in Slovakia

ENVIRONMENTALISTS, scouring Cambodia's jungles for evidence of illegal logging, ask a passing farmer where trees are being cut down.

ECONOMIST: Just chopping it down

It is true though that her political program does cut across party lines, especially her arguments against both illegal and legal immigration, and the political integration of Europe and the euro.

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