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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 12 March 2022

Kyiv is slowly being encircled. Hundreds have died in the indiscriminate shelling of Mariupol. Refugees as streaming west as volunteers and weapons flood into the east. More and more Ukrainian territory is falling to Russian forces as the invasion intensifies.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 5 March 2022

The latest IPCC report dropped on the same day that eastern Australia was swamped by the worst floods in years. While we must include all the usual caveats (no one meteorological event is caused by climate change, etc.), you can still don your detective's cap.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 26 February 2022

The Russian Federation has invaded neighbouring Ukraine on three fronts in a brash reassertion of power. Hundreds have died in the initial assault and millions are being uprooted right now.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 19 February 2022

Super Bowl LVI was every bit as entertaining as we had hoped. The game was good. The ads were great. And the half-time spectacle was spectacular. Congratulations to the Cleveland-Los Angeles-St. Louis-Los Angeles Rams. Commiserations to the valiant Bengals.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 12 February 2022

This week we visit two Asian countries gearing up for election season, and cover shaman scandals in South Korea, and the same-old story in the Philippines.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 5 February 2022

This week we visit South America — a continent on the precipice of swift change. In Brazil, protests and political music are alive as Bolsonaro faces a resurgent Lula. In Chile, a female-led cabinet is about to guide the country through the process of writing an entirely new constitution.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 29 January 2022

Free speech. Covid misinformation. Spotify. Joe Rogan. Neil Young. This scandal is a Search Engine Optimisation specialist's dream come true. The latest victim of the culture war is culture itself.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 22 January 2022

We've got quite a bit to get through this week so please keep your questions for the end. Biden racked up a year in office. Another keystone piece of his legislative agenda floundered in the Senate. And, you can rebook your winter holiday to Cuba now.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 15 January 2022

Each December a certain august weekly newspaper publishes a profile on its country of the year. We take no pleasure in reporting the fact that, just two weeks into January, the United Kingdom has dropped out of contention for the 2022 award. Here's why...

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 8 January 2022

The election that was. The coup that wasn't. And the cause that just won't die. A year on, America has all the rhetoric but few answers about the events that transpired on January 6, 2021.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 25 December 2021

This week we'll look to three stories elevated above the mire of everyday life. Each speaks to the desire for betterment that all too often falls off the front pages to make way for conflict and hardship. Let's lift our eyes towards 2022.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 18 December 2021

After an unrelenting year of coups, crashes, and covid, it's time to start unwinding. This week the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) unveiled the 2021 additions to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 11 December 2021

Artillery arranged along a muddy front line, thirty years of mistrust, and a two-hour presidential phone call. This week we're back in the eastern Ukraine, peering over the border at what looks like an invasion force.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 4 December 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell has finally got her day in court. America is still grappling with the aftermath of billionaire child abuser Jeffrey Epstein's death. This week we warily re-entered the sordid and perplexing affair of child-trafficking right under the noses of the country's elites.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 27 November 2021

Johnny Depp believes he's a victim of it. Dawn French feels "imaginatively restricted" by it. John Cleese is doing a documentary on it. Jon Stewart thinks it doesn't even exist. Yes, it's time to look at cancel culture and the war over academic freedom.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 20 November 2021

Europe's flagging vaccination rates have prompted a substantial rethink as the northern winter approaches. Infections are at an all-time high in several countries and lockdowns have returned. But not for everybody.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 13 November 2021

This week we're returning to Europe to take the temperature of the Polish–Belarusian border dispute and test EU member states on their commitment to the 'ever closer union'.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 6 November 2021

Wednesday marked the first anniversary of Ethiopia's civil war. Given the sparse reporting of the Tigray War, the casual observer would be forgiven for assuming things had quietened down. This last week has revealed the opposite: the Tigrayans are advancing on the capital.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 30 October 2021

Virginia goes to the polls next week in a test case for Biden's America. Meanwhile, trench warfare on Capitol hill has stripped the federal economic plan of its lofty ambitions.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 23 October 2021

This week we're visiting Africa to take stock of a rocky transition, a long-forgotten civil war, and the fate of the continent's last ruling king. And last but not least, a piece from Kinshasha that repudiates some memorable Pink Floyd lines...

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 16 October 2021

In lieu of the right old mess at the International Monetary Fund, this week we'll take up the mantle of crunching numbers and suggesting economic policy.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 9 October 2021

This week, people in lab coats all around the world held their breaths as the Nobel prizes were awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature. Peace and economic sciences are to follow. Let's see what the biggest brains in the world have been worrying away…

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 2 October 2021

It's been a good week to be a logistician and a bad one to be a parcel, container ship, coal importer, or British driver. All across the globe we are starting to see links breaking in the supply chain. This week, we cover three halting routes.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 25 September 2021

We're back in New York this week for the 76th United Nations General Assembly. Ideally we'd dedicate this entire edition to Brazil's gaffe-ridden attempt to reset its image on the international stage but we'll have to save that for a rainy day.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 18 September 2021

A pair of cases in Beijing and Washington reveal the uneven path the #MeToo movement treads across the world. This week we look to Zhou Xiaoxuan and Simone Biles, just two women among the legion demanding to be heard.

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