What It Takes
NEED TO KNOW What It Takes INDIA Does India have what it takes to become a great power on the world stage? […]
Weaponizing Migration
NEED TO KNOW Weaponizing Migration NICARAGUA In Senegal, Haiti, India, China, and Libya, the hot new ticket is Nicaragua. Famed for its […]
Victories, Great and Fixed
NEED TO KNOW Victories, Great and Fixed ALGERIA Imane Khelif returned to Algeria a hero. The Olympic gold medalist who garnered headlines […]
The Pressure Cooker
NEED TO KNOW The Pressure Cooker TAJIKISTAN A statue of Ismoil Somoni is a big attraction in Dushanbe, the capital of the former […]
Neighborly Relations
NEED TO KNOW Neighborly Relations NORTH MACEDONIA Five months after he was elected to office in early May, North Macedonia’s nationalist, right-wing […]
Getting Polished
NEED TO KNOW Getting Polished BOTSWANA The president of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, appeared transfixed recently as he held up the rough-hewn, 2,492-carat […]
Tech and Tradition
NEED TO KNOW Tech and Tradition PARAGUAY Cryptocurrency miners whose servers generate their digital product have flocked to Paraguay to take advantage […]
Tilting at Windmills
NEED TO KNOW Tilting at Windmills AZERBAIJAN Vafa Nagi is running for a seat in parliament as an independent in Azerbaijan’s parliamentary […]
The Price of Stardom
NEED TO KNOW The Price of Stardom ALBANIA “Impossibly blue skies, a wild and dramatic coast, and warm Mediterranean waters lapping at […]
When the War Ends
NEED TO KNOW When the War Ends ETHIOPIA Alemetu, pregnant, was trying desperately to fall asleep when the men from the rebel […]
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 […]