Monocle’s Hannah Lucinda Smith on Mark Rutte’s visit to Istanbul to meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he seeks to woo support to become the next Nato chief. Also in the programme: Ed Stocker sits down with Lufthansa CEO Jens Ritter as the airline prepares to launch its new premium cabins known as Allegris. Plus: we discuss why the Indian city of Bengaluru is offering incentives for those who head to the polls and the latest news in film.
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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
Blinken in China; Haiti’s ongoing crisis; the rise of Latin music
Poland flexes its diplomatic muscles
Global military spending reaches an all-time high
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
Trump’s historic day in criminal court and Salone del Mobile starts
Iran launches missile strikes in Israel and the Thailand-Myanmar border crisis
The sentencing of Vietnamese billionaire and fraudster, Truong My Lan
Will Iran retaliate against Israel?
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