The Foreign Desk Explainer: why has New Zealand fallen out with the Cook Islands and Kiribati? And what does China have to do with it? @andrew_mueller explains

The Entrepreneurs: @PolestarCars CEO Michael Lohscheller discusses the EV maker’s approach to growth in 2025 and its expansion into France. Plus: how Greece’s first scheduled helicopter airline is making island hopping a breeze

The Monocle Daily: @DrJulieNorman2 and @YMekelberg discuss Egypt and Qatar’s intensifying efforts to save the Gaza ceasefire. Then: could a US-Russia prisoner exchange be the first step towards ending the war in Ukraine? Plus: a new world view on AI

The Monocle Weekly: Monocle’s @feap speaks with Catarina Portas, the founder of A Vida Portuguesa, about her pop-up store at the @MuseumModernArt

The Briefing: Jordan’s King Abdullah meets with Donald Trump, @shahdhm analyses the sanctions on the ICC and @N_Sobrevilla on Peru’s National Archives. Plus: @kavpuri with the longlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

The Globalist: should centre-left European parties emulate the anti-immigration platform of Denmark’s Social Democrats to head off the far-right? @themichaelbooth discusses with @C_Cermak

The Globalist: Sudan’s military claims that it is near recapturing the country’s capital, Khartoum, from rebel forces. But will that bring an end to the devastating civil war?

The Globalist: @suzannelynch1 and @tomosdlewis on Trudeau’s visit to Brussels; Sudan’s civil war enters a new phase; and @themichaelbooth on how Denmark has reduced asylum requests. Plus: @soumitradutta at the Dubai World Governments Summit

The Menu: Monocle’s @claudiajacob8 heads to Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, to get a taste of its diverse gastronomic identity and culinary prowess

Monocle on Design: we recap the recent Stockholm Design Week and @ZonaMaco Diseño in Mexico City.

The Monocle Daily: The Israel-Gaza ceasefire is on the verge of unravelling. @olgatokariuk and John Everard discuss why. Then: the latest from Ukraine ahead of the @MunSecConf and beavers in Czechia finish a seven-year dam project in just two days

The Briefing: @Leila_MA on Hamas postponing its next release of hostages, @AlisoNJMutler on Romania’s presidential resignation and @YuanPotts brings business news from Dubai. Plus: @adamhankers on Australia’s banning of social media for under-16s

The Globalist: prime ministers, presidents and business leaders head to Dubai’s World Governments Summit

The Globalist: Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defence Secretary Peter Hegseth visit Europe and the Middle East to spread president Trump’s America First foreign policy

The Globalist: @BurcuAOzcelik and @EmmaNelsonMedia on King Abdullah II at the White House, @mgmessmer on Vance in Europe, @theviralpapers on Russia-Ukraine, Tom Edwards on the #WorldGovernmentsSummit and Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles with @feap

Tall Stories: @GeetanjaliKris1 takes us to a temporary city on the banks of the Ganges river to investigate a large example of temporary urbanism brought about by a Hindu pilgrimage

Monocle on Culture: @RobertBound heads to @BarbicanCentre for its new exhibition of the late Noah Davis’s extraordinary paintings. Plus: we hear from Joseph Kosuth at Sprüth Magers

The Monocle Daily: World leaders and technology executives tussle over regulation at the Paris AI summit. Plus, why both the right and the left in Europe are emulating Donald Trump’s tactics and how a monkey brought down a nation’s power grid

The Monocle Weekly: Monocle’s @feap speaks with actress Fernanda Torres and director Walter Salles about their film, ‘I’m Still Here’, which has been nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Torres

The Briefing: Paris AI Action Summit begins, Poland’s presidency of the European Council, @mrjeffu on Japan’s relationship with the US and @guydelauney with the latest from Kosovo’s elections. Plus: @feap looks at arts and culture in Brazil