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The Briefing

The Briefing

By: Monocle
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A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering everything from technology to aviation and retail to media.

2025 Monocle Economics Political Science Politics & Government
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  • Canada caves to Trump, dropping tech tax to resume trade talks with US

    Canada caves to Trump, dropping tech tax to resume trade talks with US
    Jun 30 2025

    Canada scrapped its digital tax on US tech giants hours before launch. Ottawa calls it strategic but many see a concession to Trump. Is Carney entering critical trade negotiations on the back foot?

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    32 mins
  • Live from Paris: Why Iran is clamping down on its own people

    Live from Paris: Why Iran is clamping down on its own people
    Jun 27 2025

    The latest from Iran as the state embarks on a wave of arrests and executions of suspected Israeli spies.

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    33 mins
  • Live from Paris: Accounting for the missing people of Ukraine

    Live from Paris: Accounting for the missing people of Ukraine
    Jun 26 2025

    How the fates of 40,000 missing people in Ukraine remain unknown.

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    50 mins
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