The Foreign Desk
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Explainer 538: Are Ethiopia’s enemies uniting?
Oct 7, 20266 min
As war threatens to escalate across Europe, why are some countries still stuck in neutral?
Oct 3, 202627 min
Explainer 537: Javier Milei and the Falklands – here we go again
Sep 30, 20266 min
Rebuilding Lebanon: Where do you even start?
Sep 26, 202634 min
Explainer 536: What leverage would the Houthis’s seizing of Bab al-Mandab give Iran?
Sep 23, 20266 min
Live from the Arab Media Summit: The UAE’s new role in war and peace
Sep 19, 202632 min
Explainer 535: Could Andy Burnham be the UK’s last prime minister?
Sep 16, 20267 min
The firewall falls: what does the AfD’s breakthrough mean for Europe?
Sep 12, 202633 min
Why is Jamaica asking the United Kingdom for $10bn (€8.6bn)?
Sep 9, 20266 min
Powering purpose in Stavanger
Sep 7, 202644 min
The geopolitics of going nuclear
Sep 5, 202631 min
Explainer 533: Disgraced war criminal or Serbian hero? The diplomatic conundrum of Ratko Mladić’s death
Sep 2, 20266 min
Iran: Is the US out of options?
Aug 29, 202634 min
Explainer 532: Why is Syria back on Washington’s Christmas card list?
Aug 26, 20267 min
After America: Europe’s new security order
Aug 22, 202637 min
Explainer 531: Could Moldova reunite with Romania?
Aug 19, 20268 min
The Democrats’ warring factions: Each have won battles but who will win the war?
Aug 15, 202632 min
Explainer 530: Who even is Russia’s anti-war party?
Aug 12, 20267 min
The Ceuta border crisis: Who’s really threatening Schengen?
Aug 8, 202631 min
Explainer 529: What’s driving Morocco’s Trump highway?
Aug 5, 20267 min
CTRL + ALT + RIGHT: Has technofascism taken over Silicon Valley?
Aug 1, 202642 min
Explainer 528: Does India’s Cockroach party have legs?
Jul 29, 20266 min
How can we ensure that the politics of heatwaves doesn’t cool off?
Jul 25, 202632 min
Explainer 527: Andy Burnham and the revolving door of UK politics
Jul 22, 20267 min
When politics kicks off at the World Cup: what separates the screamers from the own goals?
Jul 18, 202635 min
Explainer 526: Why Japan has been spooked into launching an intelligence service
Jul 15, 20266 min
Powering Purpose in London
Jul 14, 202626 min
The scramble for critical minerals
Jul 11, 202634 min
Explainer 525: You can’t keep a Le Pen down
Jul 8, 20267 min
Does the US still have a free press?
Jul 4, 202637 min
Explainer 524: Why is Marco Rubio trying to unify Libya?
Jul 1, 20266 min
Live from Almedalen 2026: The state of Swedish politics
Jun 27, 202640 min
Explainer 523: Flight of the White Eagle
Jun 25, 20266 min
‘El juego bonito’: Can the beautiful game help Mexico win off the pitch?
Jun 21, 202631 min
Explainer 522: The World Cup seat France won’t fill
Jun 17, 20268 min
Live from Odesa: Ukraine’s journey from needing help to providing it
Jun 13, 202637 min
Explainer 521: Trump Island
Jun 11, 20267 min
Lessons from Odesa: the changing landscape of war
Jun 6, 202644 min
Explainer 520: Is it the end of the road for Ferrari’s new electric vehicle?
Jun 3, 20267 min
Upping the ante: How prediction markets are shaking geopolitics
May 30, 202630 min
Explainer 519: Why Morocco and Senegal’s football rivalry is the one to watch this World Cup
May 27, 20267 min
The Cuban man-made crisis: will the US’s maximum-pressure campaign topple Havana’s government?
May 23, 202637 min
Explainer 518: Duterte vs Marcos in the latest episode of Filipino Family Feud
May 20, 20267 min
The rise of the middle powers
May 16, 202637 min
Explainer 517: How the revival of gerrymandering is hurting democracy
May 13, 20267 min
Live from Delphi: Can Europe remake itself into a superpower?
May 9, 202639 min
Explainer 516: Are Albertans about to leave Canada?
May 6, 20267 min
Live from Delphi: Can the US and Europe find a way back?
May 2, 202639 min
Explainer 515: Has King Charles saved the special relationship?
Apr 29, 20267 min
Live from Delphi: Europe breaks with the US over the war in Iran
Apr 25, 202639 min