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Briefing: The EU's recipe for trade deals: easy on beef, tough on wine

Strategic angle: The European Commission finalizes trade agreements while maintaining a strategic approach to negotiations.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: Live classical music sessions are helping students in Amsterdam focus during exam season

Strategic angle: Organised by the Concertgebouw's youth association, the sessions aim to help students concentrate while introducing younger audiences to classical music.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

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Briefing: Why are older adults far more at risk from COVID or flu?

Strategic angle: New research highlights the impact of ageing-related inflammation, especially due to immune cells marked by the GZMK gene.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: Jewish life in Europe: 'J'accuse. Never again is a lie'

Strategic angle: Israeli strategist Avital Sahar highlights the threats to Jewish communities in Europe amid rising antisemitism.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

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Briefing: ‘We can have a better digital world’: Global campaign targets ‘enshitification’ of social media

Strategic angle: A platform becomes ‘enshitified’ when it introduces paid features or subscriptions that makes a user’s experience worse than it used to be.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: The Mères Lyonnaises: The women who first cooked and baked Lyon's gastronomic legend

Strategic angle: The Mères Lyonnaises were a group of women who helped create Lyon’s food identity since the 1800s and undoubtedly left a lasting mark on France's celebrated gastronomy.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

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Briefing: War in the Middle East Live: Conflict enters second month, US expects to end it within two weeks

Strategic angle: The war in the Middle East entered its second month on Saturday as attacks continued across the region and the United States insisted that its objectives will be achieved within two weeks.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

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Briefing: Europe's farms are reeling from the Iran war. Regenerative farmers saw it coming

Strategic angle: The Iran war has sent fertiliser prices soaring – but these farmers aren’t fazed.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: Time zone quirks around the world that travellers may not know about

Strategic angle: With European Summer Time almost upon us, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to look at time zones across the globe.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: Iran: Mysterious cargo at Isfahan nuclear site revealed by exclusive satellite image

Strategic angle: Le Monde reveals an image of a convoy at the gates of a major underground nuclear complex in Iran, potentially linked to enriched uranium stockpile.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: Behind the scenes of the pope's unexpected visit to Monaco

Strategic angle: To the surprise of many observers and French bishops, Leo XIV is visiting the city-state on Saturday.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

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Nepal: Former PM Oli arrested over deadly protests

Ex-Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak was also taken into custody amid probe into their roles during deadly anti-corruption protests last September, which killed 76 people.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Senate agrees to end shutdown for most of DHS

Senate reaches a consensus to prevent a government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: From jammed broadcasts to a blocked website: BBC Russian's 80 years of defiance

Strategic angle: For half a century, BBC Russian had to fend off jammers. Now its website is blocked, but millions still read it.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: 'The gravest crime against humanity': What does the UN vote on slavery mean?

Strategic angle: African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be straightforward.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: EU Targets Small Parcels from Chinese E-commerce Sites

Strategic angle: New regulations will hold non-European platforms accountable for products entering the EU, with taxes starting in July.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Politics

Briefing: War in Iran: Israel and Gulf states fear a hasty US exit

Strategic angle: Under pressure from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the US president could decide to call a ceasefire, but that would resolve neither the issue of access to this maritime passage nor the question of the Iranian threat in the region.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

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Briefing: US envoy hopeful on Iran talks as strikes target nuclear facilities

Strategic angle: Steve Witkoff expresses optimism for upcoming meetings despite US-Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear sites.

Editorial Staff Mar 27

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Briefing: Gabon’s tiny turtles race against extinction as funding for protection dries up

Strategic angle: Gabon is intensifying efforts to protect vulnerable sea turtle hatchlings as nesting season peaks between December and March along the country’s Atlantic coast.

Editorial Staff Mar 27

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Briefing: DHS Confirms Lewandowski's Departure Alongside Noem

Strategic angle: The Department of Homeland Security has officially announced the exit of Lewandowski, coinciding with Noem's departure.

Editorial Staff Mar 27