For this week’s ‘The Global Countdown’, Monocle Radio’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco explores the sounds of Kazakhstan.

China’s Coast Guard breaks from the norm and joins this week’s record-setting military exercises around Taiwan. Then: ...

We examine Kyiv’s latest diplomatic push with its Western allies, as Volodymyr Zelensky presents his ‘victory plan’ to ...

Deborah Honig, chief customer officer for Samsung Electronics in the UK and Ireland, talks about how the multinational ...

A letter from the US gives Israel 30 days to boost humanitarian-aid access to Gaza, we ask: how big is the difference in tone ...

Following attacks by Israeli troops and the discovery of a Hezbollah tunnel close to its base, the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL, is ...

As the US warns Israel over its involvement in the humanitarian crises in Gaza and Lebanon, and Italy backs UN peacekeepers ...

We unpack the latest as a diplomatic spat erupts between Canada and India after Justin Trudeau expels six Indian envoys due ...

As one of the biggest court cases in Portugal’s history kicks off, we discuss the effects of the collapse of Banco Espírito Santo and the Espírito Santo ...

Every week we welcome one of the jury chairs of the Holcim Foundation Awards – the world’s premier competition for ...

Yola Jimenez launched Yola Mezcal to preserve her family’s traditional recipe of the spirit from Oaxaca, Mexico. Today the ...

Voters can now head to the polls in the US states that could determine the outcome of the presidential election. Elsewhere, ...