Flagging carriers: war shuffles the Gulf-airline flight deck

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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

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  A decade ago, an array of fake meat products appeared on our supermarket shelves.

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  They were apparently all set to eat into the profits of the real meat market.

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  The stakes were high, and the carnivores may have won.

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  And the PDF file has always had its detractors, but you can't deny their popularity.

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  There's something like 2.5 trillion of them floating around.

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  The problem is AI has trouble reading them.

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  That may at last be the file format's undoing.

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  First up though.

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  America said last night that it had used bunker-busting bombs

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  to target missile sites on the Iranian coast,

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  trying to ungum the Strait of Hormuz.

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  Meanwhile, Iran continued its assaults on the Gulf States.

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  Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia all said that they had intercepted inbound missiles.

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  We've talked endlessly about how this conflict has affected the oil industry,

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  but there's far more turmoil going on,

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