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Today, Explained

The World in 2018

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The North Korea summit. Brexit chaos. The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The hosts of Vox's Worldly podcast look back on the biggest international stories of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So we've got the whole cast of the worldly podcast here

0:38.5

to talk about the year that the world had, welcome.

0:41.5

Hello.

0:42.5

Hello.

0:43.5

Hey, yeah, Alex Ward, let's start off with you.

0:45.7

What is the first moment in US foreign policy

0:50.3

we should remember from this year?

0:52.4

What's the big one?

0:53.6

Definitely that we did not go to war with North Korea.

0:56.7

That's true, we didn't, didn't we?

0:58.0

We didn't, and it looked like we might this year.

1:00.7

It didn't.

1:01.4

It was looking that way a lot at the end of last year,

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