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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Benny Gantz calls for early elections in Israel
Nato at 75: Old enemies, new faultlines
EU leaders head to Lithuania to show solidarity
A round-up of the day’s news
Turkey’s local elections: a test for Erdogan
How is Beijing trying to woo foreign investment?
Is a grain deal in sight for Poland and Ukraine?
Emmanuel Macron in Brazil and Robert F Kennedy Jr announces running mate
Tensions rise between France and Germany over Ukraine
Is there a way out of Haiti’s nightmare?
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s road to EU membership
EU summit in Brussels and Vietnam’s president resigns
Hopes build for a ceasefire in Gaza and Slovakia’s presidential election
Famine in Gaza and the Kremlin’s future elite
South Korea’s Summit for Democracy and an EU-Egypt migration deal
Russia’s election and US-Japan talks on Ukraine
Ukraine gets new military funding and a survey on democratic fixes
Germany’s AfD ruling and the Aukus submarine deal
Sipri’s report on global weapons sales and Mipim 2024
Portugal’s elections and the 96th Academy Awards
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