The Briefing

By: Monocle
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  • Summary

  • A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering everything from technology to aviation and retail to media.
    2024 Monocle
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  • Tensions flare between North and South Korea

    Tensions flare between North and South Korea
    Oct 18 2024

    Ambitions for a reunification of Pyongyang and Seoul wane as North Korea cosies up to Russia. Plus: a litmus-test referendum in Moldova and the Art Basel Paris begins.



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    34 mins
  • China escalates tensions with Taiwan

    China escalates tensions with Taiwan
    Oct 17 2024

    China’s Coast Guard breaks from the norm and joins this week’s record-setting military exercises around Taiwan. Then: president Zelensky brings Ukraine’s victory plan to the EU and Italy sends migrants to Albania. Plus: Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco takes us to Kazakhstan on this week’s ‘Global Countdown’.

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    38 mins
  • Is the tide turning against Netanyahu?

    Is the tide turning against Netanyahu?
    Oct 16 2024

    As the US warns Israel over its involvement in the humanitarian crises in Gaza and Lebanon, and Italy backs UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, are attitudes shifting among Israel’s allies? Plus: Poland’s new immigration curb. Then: we get the best from the BFI London Film Festival.

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    33 mins

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