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The Briefing

A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering eve... Read more

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China announces export controls, saying it wants to safeguard “national security and interests”. Plus, how Istanbul is t... Read more

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Ukraine says that war is coming to Russia as a senior Russian official threatens a nuclear attack. Plus, why Austria’s c... Read more

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