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1251 - ‘El juego bonito’: Can the beautiful game help Mexico win off the pitch?

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1251 - ‘El juego bonito’: Can the beautiful game help Mexico win off the pitch?

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The Foreign Desk

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‘El juego bonito’: Can the beautiful game help Mexico win off the pitch?

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Explainer 521: Trump Island

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Upping the ante: How prediction markets are shaking geopolitics

Explainer 519: Why Morocco and Senegal’s football rivalry is the one to watch this World Cup

The Cuban man-made crisis: will the US’s maximum-pressure campaign topple Havana’s government?

Explainer 518: Duterte vs Marcos in the latest episode of Filipino Family Feud

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Live from Delphi: Can Europe remake itself into a superpower?

Explainer 516: Are Albertans about to leave Canada?

Live from Delphi: Can the US and Europe find a way back?

Explainer 515: Has King Charles saved the special relationship?

Live from Delphi: Europe breaks with the US over the war in Iran

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Explainer 513: Why does Viktor Orbán’s defeat matter?

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Explainer 512: Why is JD Vance in Hungary?

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Explainer 511: Why is Germany telling Syrians to return home?

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Explainer 510: From Angola with love: are there Russian spies in southern Africa?

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Explainer 509: Is Cuba next on Trump’s hit list?

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Explainer 507: Pakistan-Afghanistan: What’s fuelling this week’s overlooked conflict?

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Explainer 506: How did Mexico’s drug cartels bring the country to a standstill?

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Explainer 505: Are the Winter Olympics apolitical?

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Explainer 504: The jailing of Jimmy Lai: China’s stand against Hong Kong media and the UK’s middling response

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Explainer 503: Why is the US making nice with West African juntas?

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Explainer 502: The two-man rivalry fuelling South Sudan’s civil war

Live from Nuuk: Trump’s threats grip Greenland

Explainer 501: Why does Trump really want Greenland?

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Explainer 500: Why are Malaysia and Indonesia alone in taking on Grok?

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Explainer 499: Why is Donald Trump ‘running’ Venezuela?

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