Can the EU strike a trade agreement with the Trump administration? Israel’s ultra-orthodox jews are drafted to fight, ASEAN foreign ministers meet in Malaysia and the global race to build more icebreakers.

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Emmanuel Macron visits the UK, while Japan’s emperor, Naruhito, is in Mongolia for a weeklong trip. Plus: Haute Couture Week in Paris, news from Ukraine and the UAE, and Speedos in summer.

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President Donald Trump and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in Washington to discuss Iran and Syria.

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US Congress votes on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”. Plus: the Mercosur-EU trade deal that was years in the making. Then: what would you put on the UK’s banknotes?

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We head to Kyiv to confront the new reality of war in Ukraine as the US halts key aid. Plus: the effects of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Americans and the Grand Egyptian Museum.

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We get the latest from Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief, Fiona Wilson, as Japan looks to placate Donald Trump on trade and tariffs – without buying American rice.

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As Trump remains determined to pass his mammoth new bill before 4 July, we discuss why beauty might be in the eye of the partisan beholder.

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As Kyiv turns to Africa in its struggle against Moscow, we discuss how much African influence really matters to Ukraine’s overall war effort.

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