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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A violent end to campaigning in Mexico and will US weapons be used to strike Russia?
UAE signs a free trade agreement with South Korea and South Africans go to the polls
Special edition, no 2: Live from the Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong, presented by UBS
Special edition, no 1: Live from the Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong, presented by UBS
Leaders from South Korea, China and Japan meet in Seoul
China responds to Taiwan’s new president with military drills
UK prime minister calls general election
Israeli officials shut down AP broadcast and Finland looks to stem migration from Russia
Protests in Mexico and Thailand’s plan to recriminalise cannabis
Taiwan's new president is inaugurated
Michael Cohen’s testimony and South Africa’s case against Israel
Vladimir Putin’s visit to China and the Arab League Summit in Bahrain
Georgia passes ‘foreign agents’ bill and Copenhagen Democracy Summit
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
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