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Monitor Daily Podcast

March 25, 2024
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Amelia Newcomb
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As we start the week, there’s lots of tumult to address on the global stage: a terror attack in Russia, deepening U.S.-Israel tensions over Gaza, sparring in Kenya over sending police to help in Haiti. You’ll find insightful takes on all those in today’s Daily.

You’ll also find news that tends to get overlooked. In New Haven, Connecticut, correspondent Troy Aidan Sambajon reports on a new community where housing is a salaried benefit for early childhood educators. It’s a nascent effort to address the immediate needs of desperately needed but often low-wage workers – and to build a village that more broadly sustains them. It’s innovation that lays the groundwork for sustainable progress. And that’s news.


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An Orthodox priest conducts a service at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall in the outskirts of Moscow, March 25, 2024.

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Supporters of the Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip since Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 attack protest outside the hotel where U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with relatives of the hostages, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 22, 2024.
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People take cover from gunfire near the National Palace, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 21, 2024.

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The presumed winner of Senegal's presidential election, Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

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Women put colored powder on each other as they celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, in Kolkata, India, March 25, 2024. The Hindu festival, celebrated across India with music, dancing, and food, heralds the arrival of spring.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

We hope you enjoyed today’s Daily. Please come back tomorrow for a story related to a device many of us use every day: Apple’s iPhone. The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. Writer Laurent Belsie takes on this question: If the United States needs a new level of regulatory vigilance on Big Tech, how should it happen? 

Also, as a bonus read, please check out our Points of Progress this week, which looks at eco-friendly batteries and greener cement. 

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