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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...