Alexei Navalny’s memoir, Minoa bookshop and Sicilian food

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  This edition of Monocle on Saturday was first broadcast on the 26th of October, 2024.

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  Hello, I'm Georgina Godwin broadcasting to you live from Midori House in London.

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  This is Monocle on Sunday.

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  Coming up on today's program, we'll have a look through the week's news and culture with the writer, broadcaster and Russia analyst Stephen D.

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  Then, starting from the.

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  Very first year we saw there was.

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  This community feeling, Monocle's Hannah Lucinda Smith speaks to the co founder of Istanbul's Manoa Pera Bookshop about how they turned a passion project into a cultural success story in the city.

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  And finally, we head to a hilltop town in Sicily for a tour of all the best culinary sp.

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  That's all ahead here on Monocle on Saturday with me, Georgina Godwin.

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  First though, here's the news.

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  Israel struck military sites in Iran in the early hours of this morning, according to the US which was notified in advance.

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  Targets did not include energy or nuclear facilities.

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  Iran says its air defenses successfully tracked and countered Israeli aggression and there was some limited damage.

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  A semi official Iranian news agency vowed a proportional reaction against Georgians vote today in a parliamentary election depicted by both sides as an existential battle that will determine whether the country integrates closely with the west or leans back towards Moscow.

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  Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the ruling Georgian Dream Party has moved the country decisively back towards Moscow's orbit, accusing the west of trying to lure it into war.

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  The opposition calls the shift a betrayal of Georgia's European future.

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  And in the United States, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took a detour from barnstorming the battleground states that will decide November's election.

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  With Friday stops in Texas, a conservative state that was the first to implement a near total abortion ban.

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  Superstar singer Beyonce, who was born in Houston, fired up the crowd by introducing Harris, who came on stage to a recording of Beyonce's song Freedom.

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  And that's your Monocle Radio News.

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