The Globalist Podcast (December 1, 2023) – After three people were shot by Hamas in Jerusalem, we discuss the latest from the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East. Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi examines how an agreement on a key climate deal was reached on the first day of Cop 28.
Plus: The EU announces new Slapp protections, the latest film news and a look at who topped ArtReview’s Power 100 list.
Hostages who have returned to Israel in the past week have come home malnourished, ill, injured and bearing psychological wounds.
Airlines Race Toward a Future of Powering Their Jets With Corn
Carriers want to replace jet fuel with ethanol to fight global warming. That would require lots of corn, and lots of water.
Biden Administration to Require Replacing of Lead Pipes Within 10 Years
The proposal to rip out nine million pipes across the country could cost as much as $30 billion but would nearly eliminate the neurotoxin from drinking water.
The Globalist Podcast (November 30, 2023) – As Cop 28 begins in Dubai, Politico’s Suzanne Lynch discusses the controversy over the UAE’s motives for hosting the summit and what is expected to come out of it.
Also, William Yang on Taiwan’s economic ties with India, a Saudi Arabian investment fund’s purchase of a stake in Heathrow, Interpol’s centenary and why France tops our Soft Power Survey.
The most powerful secretary of state of the postwar era, he was both celebrated and reviled. His complicated legacy still resonates in relations with China, Russia and the Middle East.
Officials from Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. hope that a succession of pauses will pave the way toward a larger goal: bringing the war to a close.
In the West Bank, Release of Prisoners Deepens Support for Hamas
Some people in the West Bank, where frustration with the Palestinian Authority has been simmering for years, believe Hamas and other armed groups are the only ones they can trust to protect them.
The Globalist Podcast (November 29, 2023) – As US secretary of state Antony Blinken returns to Israel later this week, Gregg Carlstrom breaks down what he might be hoping to achieve.
Plus: why Ukraine is top of the agenda at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Finland temporary closure of its border with Russia, the latest business news and a trip to the World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
Both Israel and Hamas are reaping benefits from the cease-fire, but as the hostage-for-prisoner exchanges continue, Israeli leaders may feel growing pressure to resume the war.
Gavin Newsom Wants Fox News Viewers to Hear Him Out
After sparring twice with Sean Hannity, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California will jump into the ring this week with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. The stakes are high for both men.
Memorial Celebrates Rosalynn Carter’s Life, a ‘Public Love Story’
Former President Jimmy Carter emerged from hospice care to join a cast of political heavyweights paying tribute to Mrs. Carter, who died at 96 last week at her home in Plains, Ga.
Can U.S.-China Student Exchanges Survive Geopolitics?
The flow of students between the countries has been a mainstay of their relationship, even when ties have soured. Now these exchanges, too, are under threat.
The Globalist Podcast (November 28, 2023) – We unpack the extended truce deal between Israel and Hamas. Also, a special interview with former Ireland president Mary Robinson, a look at the Marrakech International Film Festival and the latest business news.
The extension, and another exchange of hostages and prisoners, raised hopes that more people would be set free and more humanitarian aid would reach people in the Gaza Strip.
At the president’s urging, the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas was extended two more days. The challenge is what comes next.
Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China
American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats.
Russian Women Protest Long Deployments for Soldiers in Ukraine
“Make way for someone else,” a new grass-roots movement demands as women challenge the official argument that the mobilized troops are needed in combat indefinitely.
An underground nuclear arsenal in Israel dwarfs the tunnels alleged at a Gaza hospital.
It’s one thing to burrow beneath the ground, digging to construct a tunnel for refuge, a passage of goods, or to store weapons during a time of war. It’s quite another for a small child to use one hand to dig their way out of the rubble that has collapsed on them.
The Globalist Podcast (November 27, 2023) – The latest on the war between Israel and Hamas. Plus: the Philippines considers returning to the ICC, the latest climate news and Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’.
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