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A roundup of the day’s most important news stories from around the world, from TLDR News. But we don’t just tell you what’s happening, we explain it: making complex topics simple to understand. Listen to the Daily Briefing for your global news bulletin every weekday.Pre-order the next edition of Too Long, TLDR’s print magazine, here: https://toolong.news/daily

Will the West Stop Sending Arms to Israel?

10 mins; April 04, 2024

Why China-Philippines Tensions are Escalating

8 mins; April 03, 2024

How Will Iran Respond to Israel's Airstrike?

8 mins; April 02, 2024

Why Ireland is Joining the Genocide Case Against Israel

8 mins; March 28, 2024

How a Corruption Scandal Could End Orban

8 mins; March 27, 2024

What Happens Now the UN Security Council Demands a Gaza Ceasefire?

8 mins; March 26, 2024

Could Trump's Money Problem Cost Him the Election?

9 mins; March 25, 2024

Has Israel Lost its International Support?

9 mins; March 22, 2024

Why the UK & Australia Are Teaming Up on Defence

8 mins; March 21, 2024

Why China & the UK are Arguing over Hong Kong

8 mins; March 20, 2024

Why Serbia Gave Europe an Ultimatum Over Kosovo

8 mins; March 19, 2024

Will South Ossetia Join Russia?

9 mins; March 18, 2024

Six More Years of Vladimir Putin?

9 mins; March 15, 2024

Why Armenia is Considering Joining the EU

10 mins; March 14, 2024

Why is Erdogan Moving into Iraq?

8 mins; March 13, 2024

Why the EU is Taking Itself to Court

9 mins; March 12, 2024

How the US is Beating Europe on Productivity

10 mins; March 11, 2024

Why Ireland is Voting to Change its Constitution

10 mins; March 08, 2024

Zelenskyy Avoids Russian Missile Strike

9 mins; March 07, 2024

Egypt Devalues its Currency (again): What Next?

9 mins; March 06, 2024

Why the EU is Entering 'War Economy Mode'

8 mins; March 05, 2024

How Haiti's Crisis Could Spiral Into a Revolution

9 mins; March 04, 2024

How Belarus' Opposition Are Planning to Topple Lukashenko

9 mins; March 01, 2024

Transnistria Asks Russia For "Protection": What Next?

9 mins; February 29, 2024

Why Japan's Demographic Crisis is Getting Worse

9 mins; February 28, 2024

Why Macron Floated Sending Troops to Ukraine

9 mins; February 27, 2024

Why Hungary has Finally Let Sweden into NATO

10 mins; February 26, 2024

Is Brazil Going to Reform the UN?

11 mins; February 23, 2024

Is the UK Speaker About to be Ousted?

9 mins; February 22, 2024

Will Julian Assange Avoid Extradition to the US?

9 mins; February 21, 2024

The US Proposes a Ceasefire in Gaza: What Next?

11 mins; February 20, 2024

Did Someone Kill Navalny?

10 mins; February 16, 2024

Is Putin Putting Nukes in Space?

10 mins; February 15, 2024

Indonesia Elects a New President

8 mins; February 14, 2024

Why Russia Put Estonia's Prime Minister on its Wanted List

10 mins; February 13, 2024

Will Finland's New President Scare Off Russia?

9 mins; February 12, 2024

How Biden's Age is Hurting His Reelection Campaign

10 mins; February 09, 2024

Why Have Dutch Coalition Talks Collapsed?

8 mins; February 07, 2024

Why West Africa's Most Stable Democracy is in Crisis

8 mins; February 06, 2024

'World's Coolest Dictator' Re-elected in El Salvador

8 mins; February 05, 2024

How the EU Got Hungary to Drop its Veto

9 mins; February 02, 2024

Will Zelenskyy Sack Zaluzhny?

8 mins; February 01, 2024

Why France is Amending its Constitution

10 mins; January 31, 2024

Is Pakistan's Election Rigged?

9 mins; January 30, 2024

Is China's Real Estate Market Heading for Collapse?

9 mins; January 29, 2024

World Court Orders Measures Against Israel: What Now?

8 mins; January 26, 2024

Texas Standoff: Will Biden Intervene?

10 mins; January 25, 2024

Was this Russian Military Jet Shot Down?

8 mins; January 24, 2024

Why Egypt has Intervened in Ethiopia's Somaliland Dispute

10 mins; January 23, 2024

Why Did DeSantis Drop Out?

8 mins; January 22, 2024

Netanyahu Rejects US Calls for a Palestinian State

8 mins; January 19, 2024

Pakistan Launches Retaliatory Strikes Inside Iran

9 mins; January 18, 2024

Why Iran Just Struck 'Militant Bases' in Pakistan

8 mins; January 17, 2024

Donald Trump Wins Iowa: What Next?

9 mins; January 16, 2024

China's Anger at Taiwan's Election Result

9 mins; January 15, 2024

Why the US and UK struck Houthi Rebels in Yemen

9 mins; January 12, 2024

Has Sunak Saved the Subpostmasters?

9 mins; January 11, 2024

Is Ecuador on the Brink of Civil War?

9 mins; January 10, 2024

Why France Just Got a New Prime Minister

9 mins; January 09, 2024

Who Just Attacked Iran?

10 mins; January 04, 2024

Is the Israel-Gaza Conflict About to Spread?

9 mins; January 03, 2024

Why Ethiopia is About to Recognise Somaliland

9 mins; January 02, 2024

Swedish Rocket hits Norway & Other Strange Stories from 2023

10 mins; December 29, 2023

Is The UN About to Back Gaza?

9 mins; December 22, 2023

China Warns That it Will Reunify With Taiwan

9 mins; December 21, 2023

Will Trump Be Banned From The 2024 Election?

8 mins; December 20, 2023

Why is Berlin Re-Running the 2021 Election?

7 mins; December 19, 2023

Why Chile Rejected (another) New Constitution

7 mins; December 18, 2023

EU Agrees to Open Membership Talks with Ukraine

8 mins; December 15, 2023

What Happened at Putin's Conference?

8 mins; December 14, 2023

The UN Demands a Gaza Ceasefire: What Happens Now?

8 mins; December 13, 2023

Why Have the UN Pulled Out of Mali?

9 mins; December 12, 2023

Guatemala Coup Attempt: What's Going On?

8 mins; December 11, 2023

What is the UN's Article 99 and Why Was it Triggered?

8 mins; December 07, 2023

Why Ireland is Holding Another Referendum

9 mins; December 06, 2023

Israel Pushes Further South into Gaza

8 mins; December 05, 2023

Why the Red Sea Has Become a New Battleground

8 mins; December 04, 2023

Why a Riot Erupted in Dublin

8 mins; November 24, 2023

What the Hell Just Happened in the Dutch Election?!

9 mins; November 23, 2023

Israel & Hamas Agree to a Four-Day Ceasefire

9 mins; November 22, 2023

Opposition MPs Light Fire in Albanian Parliament

9 mins; November 21, 2023

How Javier Milei Won Argentina's Presidential Election

9 mins; November 20, 2023

Biden Calls Xi a 'Dictator'

9 mins; November 17, 2023

Republican Mega-Donors Back Nikki Hale

9 mins; November 16, 2023

Why Protests Have Broken out in Spain

10 mins; November 15, 2023

What's Going on at the Al-Shifa Hospital?

9 mins; November 14, 2023

Why David Cameron is Back in Government

10 mins; November 13, 2023

Why Russia was Kicked Out of the World Court

8 mins; November 10, 2023

Turkey's Constitutional Crisis Explained

9 mins; November 09, 2023

The G7 Agrees to Humanitarian Pauses

8 mins; November 08, 2023

Israel Rejects Ceasefire Calls But is Open To "Pauses"

8 mins; November 07, 2023

Is Israel About to Take Gaza?

8 mins; November 06, 2023

Are Hezbollah About to Declare War on Israel?

8 mins; November 03, 2023

How Ukraine Can Break its Stalemate

8 mins; November 02, 2023

Why Yemen's Houthis are Attacking Israel

8 mins; November 01, 2023

Why Violence is Rising in the West Bank

9 mins; October 31, 2023

Israel Responds to Antisemitic Protest in Russia

8 mins; October 30, 2023

Israel Launches a ‘Targeted Raid’ in Gaza

8 mins; October 26, 2023

Why Israel Has Fallen Out With The United Nations

8 mins; October 25, 2023

Sweden Gets Closer to NATO Membership

8 mins; October 24, 2023

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