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Oct 2023
32m 19s

Friday 6 October

MONOCLE
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Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. We discuss the value of the award in times of war. Plus: a special interview with Sweden’s minister of defence and Andrew Mueller’s ‘What We Learned’.

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