The Judicial Wall
NEED TO KNOW The Judicial Wall THAILAND The ruling party in Thailand’s parliament, Pheu Thai, recently nominated Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the 37-year-old daughter […]
Punch Drunk
NEED TO KNOW Punch Drunk ISRAEL/ LEBANON Smoke billowed from the streets of Khiam in southern Lebanon recently after Israeli military forces […]
Common Ground
NEED TO KNOW Common Ground TANZANIA Architects in Tanzania are using three-dimensional printers to construct housing and other buildings, also using soil […]
Blinis in Buenos Aires
NEED TO KNOW Blinis in Buenos Aires RUSSIA Russian émigrés are buying apartments, beauty salons, restaurants, and other assets in Argentina and […]
Getting Rich, Right
NEED TO KNOW Getting Rich, Right GUYANA Past efforts at reforming the constitution of Guyana have yielded little change. Now, however, as […]
Flipping the Script
NEED TO KNOW Flipping the Script RUSSIA-UKRAINE Top Ukrainian commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi boasted this week that his troops now control almost […]
Atoll Power
NEED TO KNOW Atoll Power KIRIBATI Around 1,300 miles south of the American state of Hawaii, Kiribati is a country of 115,000 […]
‘Mother’ of Change
NEED TO KNOW ‘Mother’ of Change ITALY Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls her plan to change the structure of governance in […]
The Tyranny of Doubt
NEED TO KNOW The Tyranny of Doubt MALAWI In March last year, Cyclone Freddy ripped through Malawi and southeast Africa, killing 679 […]
Human Shields
NEED TO KNOW Human Shields RUSSIA The return of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and other […]
Playing Chicken
NEED TO KNOW Playing Chicken MIDDLE EAST Iranian leaders recently warned commercial airlines and others to avoid Iranian airspace as the country […]
Nothing to Lose
NEED TO KNOW Nothing to Lose KENYA In late June, Kenyan President William Ruto blinked. After winning the 2022 general election on […]
‘The People’s War’
NEED TO KNOW ‘The People’s War’ BANGLADESH On July 16, two police officers clashing with student protesters at Begum Rokeya University in […]
Pull Harder
NEED TO KNOW Pull Harder GREECE Greece recently adopted a six-day working week to maintain its workforce as its population ages, but […]
Carrying On
NEED TO KNOW Carrying On UKRAINE Tatiana Putria is a nurse in the Kherson region of Ukraine. “I am not a hero, […]
Baby Onboarding
NEED TO KNOW Baby Onboarding ASIA In Japan, a diapers company recently announced that it would be switching its focus from babies […]
Growing Back Limbs
NEED TO KNOW Growing Back Limbs IRAQ/ SYRIA The terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or ISIS) […]
Mirror Image
NEED TO KNOW Mirror Image WEST AFRICA Earlier this month, a triumvirate of military leaders who oversee military juntas in Burkina Faso, […]
Port of Call
NEED TO KNOW Port of Call LATIN AMERICA American Gen. Laura Richardson, who oversees US military operations in Latin America, recently told […]
The Three-legged Stool
NEED TO KNOW The Three-legged Stool VENEZUELA Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is running for reelection for a third term on July 28. […]
So Far, So Close
NEED TO KNOW So Far, So Close POLAND From the mid-16th Century to the late 18th Century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a […]
The Practical Prince
NEED TO KNOW The Practical Prince SAUDI ARABIA Chinese solar panel companies TCL Zhonghuan and Jinko Solar reached a $3-billion deal with […]
When the Waters Come
NEED TO KNOW When the Waters Come LATIN AMERICA Climate change allegedly has claimed many victims. Temperatures as high as 117 degrees […]