As tensions on Israel’s northern border mount, we look at whether an all-out war with Hezbollah is possible. Plus: campus protests spread from Columbia University to Sciences Po, what China president Xi Jinping’s charm offensive in Europe might look like and the nightmare that is the restaurant-reservation economy. Plus: @andrew_mueller speaks to Peter Grk, the secretary-general of the Bled Strategic Forum and Western Balkans.
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The US House considers Ukraine aid and a Salone del Mobile review
The EU, US and China
Zelensky calls for increased air defence after Chernihiv strike
The US and Iran make contact through Swiss intermediaries
Monday 15 April
Russian attacks destroy Kyiv’s largest power plant
Trudeau claims China unsuccessfully meddled in Canada’s elections
Japan’s Fumio Kishida warns world at ‘historic turning point’
ECHR rules that Switzerland’s climate failures breached human rights
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, arrives in China
A look ahead to South Africa’s elections and a total solar eclipse
Nato’s past and present
World Central Kitchen and the humanitarian aid imperative
Israel’s take on foreign media and Swiss councillors give up ski passes
Monday 1 April
The built environment, from Turkey to sports stadiums
Russia blames everyone but its intelligence services
From Afghanistan to Moscow’s Crocus City Hall
Is accusing Israel of genocide useful?
The UN Security Council demands a ceasefire in Gaza and the Yemen Listening Project
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