The Globalist

We’re live from Sri Lanka, where explosions on Easter Sunday left more than 290 dead. Plus: actor Vladimir Zelensky wins Ukraine’s election, Putin prepares to meet Kim Jong-un and climate-change protests hit London.

We examine the Ukrainian presidential TV debate ahead of this Sunday’s elections, get the latest from Catalonia and ask why the Crossrail project in the UK has been delayed once again. Plus: Netflix commissions its first African animated series.

We start in Washington DC, where both sides of the political divide await the publication of Robert Muller’s report into alleged collusion by the Trump campaign with Russia. Then we look in as France announces an international architecture competition to rebuild the Notre-Dame spire and find out how advertising might be heading into space.

We’re in Indonesia as the polls open, then we get the latest from Paris following the fire at the cathedral of Notre Dame. We also hear how Egypt’s parliament is extending presidential term limits.

Monocle’s Paris correspondent and our regular contributors have the very latest as a huge fire engulfs Notre-Dame cathedral. Plus: the rise of the far-right in Austria, Ivanka Trump’s tour of Africa and a collaborative space programme between the US and Taiwan.

As change sweeps Algeria and Sudan, we ask if the protest movement heralds a new iteration of the Arab Spring. Plus: is Ukraine on course to elect a comedian for president, and a look at the day’s headlines.

Could foreign interference be the biggest threat facing western democracies? We also explore what will happen to Tibetans and their religion when the Dalai Lama dies, discuss the reliability and security of F-35 fighter jets, look ahead to Australia’s federal elections and discover why tourists have fallen in love with Slovenia.

We have the latest updates as the world's biggest democratic election gets underway in India. Plus: Turkey’s president attempts to annul Istanbul’s local elections results, the politicians who run the risk of being worn out by their workload and the first image of a black hole – does it live up to our expectations?

We analyse the incoming results from Israel’s election, discuss the unrest in Sudan, get the latest on Brexit and check in with the Monocle team at Milan’s Salone del Mobile design fair.

Will Emmanuel Macron or Angela Merkel decide the UK’s future outside the EU? Plus: how political chaos promotes authoritarianism, a wrap of the aircraft interiors expo, India’s elections and what to expect from Monocle’s special coverage of Salone del Mobile in Milan.