Monocle’s Washington correspondent, Christopher Cermak, discusses the US filing its first war-crimes charges related to the Russia-Ukraine war. Then, our panellists Yossi Mekelberg and Mellissa Fung explore whether international bodies and NGOs were too slow to condemn Hamas’s 7 October sex crimes, ask what Putin is up to in the UAE and rate Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 inquiry performance. Plus: why Taylor Swift is ‘Time’ magazine’s Person of the Year.

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