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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Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and David Cameron’s visit to Berlin
EPP Summit and Venezuela sets its presidential-election date
Olaf Scholz’s hesitancy on Ukraine and US sanctions on Emmerson Mnangagwa
Super Tuesday
Giorgia Meloni meets with Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau
Alexei Navalny’s funeral and Biden and Trump visit the Texas-Mexico border
What unites Ukraine and the Western Balkans?
Joe Biden meets Congress leaders and Europe’s EV battle
Russia’s advances in Ukraine and Israel heads to the polls in municipal elections
Hungary’s parliament votes on Sweden’s Nato bid
Who will be Nato’s next leader?
Warsaw special
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to form tri-state confederation
Sergey Lavrov’s Latin American tour
Japan’s support for Ukraine and an interview with Kyriakos Mitsotakis
A looming ground offensive in Rafah
Nato gets a defence-spending boost
Indonesia votes
The view of Nato from Poland and Saint Laurent’s new Parisian bookshop
The latest on the conflict in the Middle East and Finland’s election results
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