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Full-speed ahead

President Obama is allocating $8bn for high-speed rail, but much of the expertise will have to come from Europe. Monocle joins US transport secretary Ray LaHood on a tour of the continent's train networks.

  • Issue #25
  • 11 min read
Full-speed ahead
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Europe

How Sarkozy wings it in Me and My Motorcade, plus Luxembourg goes to the polls and bar room blues hit the UK.

  • Issue #24
  • 4 min read
Europe
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Media face-off

On 7 June, Lebanon holds its most hotly contested general election. The fiercest fights are not on the streets but in the media, as factions battle it out on the airwaves.

  • Issue #24
  • 13 min read
vote
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Asia

Get in the Kim Jong II look in Style Leader (you'll need some Cuban heels), plus China's jet-set women and Indonesia casts its votes.

  • Issue #24
  • 4 min read
Asia
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Americas

Why Americas need new gum control laws and the drugs cartels looking for new homes. Plus, our Washington column looks at how branding is selling the recovery package.

  • Issue #23
  • 4 min read
Americas
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Karachi cops

Monocle spends a day with Karachi’s police chief as he worries about kit, corruption and crime stats as the Taliban gains ground in Pakistan. We also meet Afghanistan's presidential hopeful.

  • Issue #24
  • 8 min read
Karachi cops
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Coming home

Spain is offering citizenship to the descendants of those who fled its Civil War and the Franco regime. Should other nations with ageing populations do more to encourage their diaspora to return home?

  • Issue #23
  • 5 min read
Coming home
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Americas

The Obama's grand designs on their private White House living quarters, going Dutch in the Antilles, planting seeds of change in Detroit and the Interoceanic Highway near completion - maybe.

  • Issue #24
  • 6 min read
Americas
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Prime time

Estonia has a modern image but faces old-fashioned issues. Prime Minister Andrus Ansip talks to Monocle about Russia, adopting the euro and his moral duty to send troops to Afghanistan.

  • Issue #24
  • 8 min read
Prime time
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Europe

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.

  • Issue #23
  • 7 min read
Europe

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