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Every weekday our global network of correspondents makes sense of the stories beneath the headlines. We bring you surprising trends and tales from around the world, current affairs, business and finance — as well as science and technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Situation reporter: Evan Gershkovich’s detention

26 mins; April 06, 2023

Arraigning on his parade: the charges against Donald Trump

26 mins; April 05, 2023

What he wants, what Xi wants: Macron in China

24 mins; April 04, 2023

Get-rich-quick scheming: India and Indonesia

23 mins; April 03, 2023

Charge d’affair: Donald Trump indicted

27 mins; March 31, 2023

Time’s up: America debates TikTok’s future

25 mins; March 30, 2023

The Gulf narrows: Iran-Saudi relations

25 mins; March 29, 2023

Over the Finnish line: NATO set to grow

24 mins; March 28, 2023

Bibi bump: Israel’s unrest flares

20 mins; March 27, 2023

Iraq, a hard place: 20 years after the invasion

22 mins; March 24, 2023

A bit Fed up: central banks’ dilemma

25 mins; March 23, 2023

Not shy and not retiring: pension reform in France

25 mins; March 22, 2023

Stopping the spread: how to fix the banks

23 mins; March 21, 2023

Bear backed: Xi heads to Moscow

25 mins; March 20, 2023

Felling through the cracks: rainforests in crisis

25 mins; March 17, 2023

Puts Bibi in the corner: Israel’s protests

24 mins; March 16, 2023

One Tory building: Rishi Sunak’s mission

24 mins; March 15, 2023

Starched rival: Turkey’s opposition candidate

24 mins; March 14, 2023

End run: Silicon Valley Bank

22 mins; March 13, 2023

A vote for Ukraine: why Estonia’s election matters

29 mins; March 10, 2023

Not so Pacific: the frightening prospect of war over Taiwan

23 mins; March 09, 2023

Home affairs: America’s revealing property market

22 mins; March 08, 2023

Bakhmut point: Ukraine readies a counter-offensive

24 mins; March 07, 2023

Hedge of allegiance: South Africa’s diplomatic shift

26 mins; March 06, 2023

Seed of doubt: venture capital tightens up

24 mins; March 03, 2023

Losing the threads: Bangladesh

22 mins; March 02, 2023

The belt buckles up: China’s grand plan slims

24 mins; March 01, 2023

Let’s remake a deal: Brexit and Northern Ireland (again)

24 mins; February 28, 2023

Has Obi won, can Obi? Nigeria’s elections

28 mins; February 27, 2023

A year of war: a Ukraine special

27 mins; February 24, 2023

The prices fight: conflicting views on inflation

24 mins; February 23, 2023

Fire and grim tone: Putin’s and Biden’s speeches

25 mins; February 22, 2023

The air of their ways: South Asia’s crippling pollution

28 mins; February 21, 2023

What it is in aid of: Syria’s earthquake response

24 mins; February 20, 2023

Give fast, spry young: the new philanthropists

25 mins; February 17, 2023

Independence fray: Scotland’s leader steps down

28 mins; February 16, 2023

Haley to the chief? A long-shot candidacy begins

21 mins; February 15, 2023

End-Gulfed: Preparing for a post-oil future

23 mins; February 14, 2023

Toil and rubble: a report from Turkey

27 mins; February 13, 2023

A chance at renewal: Nigeria’s coming election

29 mins; February 10, 2023

Long division: America’s busy state legislatures

26 mins; February 09, 2023

Bot the difference: AI and the future of search

23 mins; February 08, 2023

Race against time: rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria

23 mins; February 07, 2023

Tony isn’t blinkin’: Sino-American relations, post-balloon

21 mins; February 06, 2023

Bold eagle: America's industrial evolution

27 mins; February 03, 2023

Poll fishing: Peru’s persistent protests

27 mins; February 02, 2023

Troubled shares, troubles shared: Adani and India Inc

24 mins; February 01, 2023

Not shy about retiring: strikes in France

20 mins; January 31, 2023

Didn’t protect or serve: Tyre Nichols’s killing

27 mins; January 30, 2023

Tunnel, no lights: South Africa’s crumbling infrastructure

23 mins; January 27, 2023

Bibi’s gambit: Israel’s government v its judiciary

26 mins; January 26, 2023

Tanks, a lot: arming Ukraine

24 mins; January 25, 2023

Marshalling resources: rebuilding Ukraine

26 mins; January 24, 2023

Feeling un-Wellington

26 mins; January 23, 2023

A rarefied air: a dispatch from Davos

27 mins; January 20, 2023

Turkey stuffed? A democracy’s last stand

23 mins; January 19, 2023

Tanks-giving parade? Arming Ukraine

25 mins; January 18, 2023

Get down to Syria’s business: coming talks with Turkey

25 mins; January 17, 2023

What did the president stow and when did he stow it? Biden‘s mess

23 mins; January 16, 2023

Zero-sum: the imperilled global economic order

25 mins; January 13, 2023

Unveiled threats: Iran's patient protesters

24 mins; January 12, 2023

Doctors’ disorders: Britain’s overwhelmed health service

32 mins; January 11, 2023

Unquiet on the eastern front: fighting in the Donbas

25 mins; January 10, 2023

Cloud coup-coup land: riots in Brazil

21 mins; January 09, 2023

Bibi’s got backup: Israel’s right-wing government

27 mins; January 06, 2023

Silva’s mettle: Brazil’s newish president

25 mins; January 05, 2023

We need to balk about Kevin: Congress opens in chaos

26 mins; January 04, 2023

Ill news, spreads apace: covid in China

23 mins; January 03, 2023

The dragon chasing: China and a new nuclear order

26 mins; January 02, 2023

In passing: the notable lives lost in 2022

34 mins; December 30, 2022

Best-of three: our country, books and games of the year

21 mins; December 29, 2022

Debasement all around: lessons from 16th-century inflation

28 mins; December 28, 2022

Cattle lines are drawn: cows in India

29 mins; December 27, 2022

Land, sea and air: let us move you

28 mins; December 26, 2022

An oily sheen: Nicolás Maduro in from the cold

31 mins; December 23, 2022

A figure of speeches: Volodymyr Zelensky in his own words

35 mins; December 22, 2022

Needs Musk? Tumult at Twitter

25 mins; December 21, 2022

Trump card marked: the January 6th investigation

29 mins; December 20, 2022

Under the missile flow: North Korea

26 mins; December 19, 2022

More generals, less pacific: Japan’s new defence policy

26 mins; December 16, 2022

No rest for the weary: meeting Ukraine’s high command

27 mins; December 15, 2022

Precious joules: a fusion-energy result

29 mins; December 14, 2022

Continental drift: Europe’s challenges

27 mins; December 13, 2022

Zero to sickly? China’s covid climbdown

27 mins; December 12, 2022

Second time as farce: Peru’s president falls

24 mins; December 09, 2022

Like biding a Reich: Germany’s alleged coup plot

25 mins; December 08, 2022

Pastor present: Georgia’s Senate runoff

28 mins; December 07, 2022

Suspension of this belief? Iran’s morality police

24 mins; December 06, 2022

The for-sixty-dollar question: a cap on Russian oil

22 mins; December 05, 2022

In sofa as I can recall: troubles for Cyril Ramaphosa

27 mins; December 02, 2022

Square dealing: Jiang Zemin dies

25 mins; December 01, 2022

On the Horn’s dilemma: meeting Somalia’s president

28 mins; November 30, 2022

The French connection: Macron’s state visit to America

23 mins; November 29, 2022

Patience zero: China’s remarkable unrest

25 mins; November 28, 2022

Forgoing a song: protest inside and beyond Iran

28 mins; November 25, 2022

Scar from the madding crowd: Korea probes a tragedy

26 mins; November 24, 2022

A whole other kettle of fission: Ukraine’s imperilled nuclear plant

23 mins; November 23, 2022

Ploy story: a defenestration at Disney

22 mins; November 22, 2022

Damage collateral: a tide turns at COP27

28 mins; November 21, 2022

In come taxes: Britain’s austere economic plan

22 mins; November 18, 2022

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