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Global military spending reaches an all-time high

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23 April 2024

Episode 3316

58 minutes

Paul Rogers of OpenDemocracy explains why global defence expenditure is at its highest level since records began. Elsewhere, Monocle’s Istanbul correspondent, Hannah Lucinda Smith, tells us about Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Iraq, the Maldives shifts its allegiance from India to China and we ask why the US is withdrawing troops from Niger. Plus: art and culture news.

23 April 2024

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A flick through today’s papers

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Paul Waldie, European correspondent at ‘The Globe and Mail’, joins Monocle’s Georgina Godwin for a flick through today’s papers. On the agenda: Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill passes, pro-Palestinian protests spread to more US college campuses and polls show that Robert F Kennedy Jr poses a bigger threat to Donald Trump than Joe Biden.

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Maldives elections: China’s tightening grip

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We discuss the shift in regional dynamics following the Maldives’ parliamentary elections as the pro-China party wins a landslide victory.

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