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.
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The latest from Rafah and a record number of internally displaced
Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara and Eurovision 2024
Israeli strikes near Rafah and a setback for China’s expansion in central America
Will the US stop additional weapons deliveries to Israel?
Russia’s nuclear weapons drills and Xi Jinping arrives in Belgrade
A round-up of the day’s news
Palestinians told to evacuate eastern Rafah and Xi Jinping begins his European tour
Baltic ministers warn Nato and a secretive UN summit in Chile
Netanyahu’s Rafah raid and the GOP pressures Biden over campus protests
The fate of Darfur, defence talks in Hawaii and EU expansion
Hamas delegation touches down in Cairo for talks
IDA for Africa Heads of State Summit and Habitat’s 60th anniversary
Mark Rutte meets Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul
Blinken in China; Haiti’s ongoing crisis; the rise of Latin music
Poland flexes its diplomatic muscles
Middle East tensions and the future of the US-Ukraine relationship
Israel’s airstrikes on Iran: what happens next?
The future of the EU according to the Enrico Letta report
G7 foreign ministers meet in Capri
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