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Qatar Airways soars to new heights and the view from Art Basel 2025

Monocle’s editorial director and chairman, Tyler Brûlé, and Paris bureau chief, Simon Bouvier, discuss Qatar Airways being named the best airline in the world. Then: we’re off to Abu Dhabi, Basel and Copenhagen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Europe weighs Ukraine’s reconstruction and lessons from Bosnia and Herzego…

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  Erdoğan’s crackdown on his political opponents intensifies

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  More Trump tariffs, ASEAN foreign ministers meet and the race for icebreak…

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  Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to the UK, Japan’s emperor heads to Mongolia…

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  Trump and Netanyahu meet in Washington. Plus: Paris honours the designer o…

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  The future of Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ and the UK redesigns its bankn…

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  As the US halts aid and Russia intensifies strikes, what will happen to Uk…

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  Japan in the firing line as Trump nears decisions on tariffs

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  The Senate’s marathon voting session on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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  Ukraine’s diplomatic-charm offensive across the African continent

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  EU summit: leaders meet to talk defence, tariffs, migration, Israel-Gaza a…

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  Nato agrees to a 5 per cent defence spend by 2035 as the US hails a “big w…

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  Trump’s Iran-Israel ceasefire resumes: how long will this one last?

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  Israel and Iran agree to a ceasefire proposed by president Trump

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  “A spectacular, military success”: Trump declares victory as the world awa…

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  Thailand’s government teeters on the brink of collapse. Is a coup imminent…