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  Oceania briefing

  

  Issue 17

  Australia tackles tax evasion on Vanuatu, New Zealand uses music to fight antisocial behaviour and the tiny state of Timor-Leste gets its own airline.

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  Americas Briefing

  

  Issue 48

  A Style Leader special, looking at the sartorial statements of three US election Republican hopefuls, plus cycling in Buenos Aires and policing in Peru.

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  Asia Briefing

  

  Issue 34

  The Malaysian PM's motorcade, Japan's special town for pensioners, and how the Haitian earthquake became a chance for Taiwan to make its mark.

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  Patriot games

  

  Issue 62

  On the Turkish border with Syria, an international Nato force sits quietly awaiting a conflict that may never come. But the heavy-duty weaponry on show says half the battle is about coming prepared.

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  No flour, no power

  

  Issue 11

  Despite healthy economic growth, two thirds of Pakistanis earn under $2 a day, 60 per cent of adults are illiterate, and the country is in the grip of a food and fuel crisis. No wonder the frivolity of Islamabad’s wedding…

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  Africa/Middle East Briefing

  

  Issue 54

  The motorcade of Equatorial Guinea's president, election watch in Congo and why Mali's interim prime minister is out of this world.

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  Briefing Europe

  

  Issue 23

  The Uzbek social princess-cum-diplomat who is also a style Leader, clean living in Sweden, Why the Swiss love their guns and Moscow eyes the Vegas lifestyle.

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  Europe Briefing

  

  Issue 54

  What's next for Berlin's Tegel airport, the growing problem of guns in France and windpower goes quiet in Sweden

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  Africa/Middle East briefing

  

  Issue 26

  Somaliland does democracy (while the rest of the world denies the country's existence), Yemen's president claims he's been a crime-fighting success (while his country goes into meltdown), and it's back to school in Gaza …

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  Asia briefing

  

  Issue 26

  Monocle talks to Japanese designers, architects and businessmen about what their country needs, post-election. Plus, Hong Kong combats its pollution, and Japan welcomes Chinese tourists - as long as they've got money to…

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  Africa/Middle East briefing

  Issue 1

  Bodyguards on room service in Mogadishu, a peek at Saudi lingerie laws and the next failed state.

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  Europe briefing

  Issue 4

  Moscow says goodbye to brutalism and the twentysomethings running Georgia.

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