Fronts and Faults
NEED TO KNOW Fronts and Faults MOLDOVA A few months ago, photos surfaced of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko standing next to a […]
Silencing the Music
NEED TO KNOW Silencing the Music HONG KONG The chairwoman of Hong Kong’s weightlifting and powerlifting association mistakenly referred to “13 countries” […]
Naming and Shaming
NEED TO KNOW Naming and Shaming UGANDA Barred from staging street protests, Ugandans are leveraging social media to shine a light on […]
Drawing in Pencil
NEED TO KNOW Drawing in Pencil ISRAEL/ GAZA Rebuilding Gaza after Israel’s devastating military operations in the Palestinian territory since Oct. 7 […]
Proximity Politics
NEED TO KNOW Proximity Politics LITHUANIA Few countries have supported Ukraine’s fight against Russia more than Lithuania, a former Soviet republic on […]
Guns, Bombs and Morality
NEED TO KNOW Guns, Bombs and Morality IRAQ Iraq has regained a semblance of stability since the defeat of the Islamic State, […]
Wish You Weren’t Here
NEED TO KNOW Wish You Weren’t Here EUROPE International tourism is arguably the fundamental building block of globalization. Visiting a foreign country, […]
Coups and Crowing
NEED TO KNOW Coups and Crowing BRAZIL Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes conducted a five-year investigation into so-called “digital militias” […]
The Last, Wobbly Domino
NEED TO KNOW The Last, Wobbly Domino CHAD When polls in the landlocked central African country of Chad open on May 6, […]
Staying in the Ring
NEED TO KNOW Staying in the Ring UKRAINE More than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops to invade his […]
Mining Discontent
NEED TO KNOW Mining Discontent PANAMA Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals is waiting for the results of Panama’s presidential election on […]
A Wan Smile
NEED TO KNOW A Wan Smile THAILAND A single clinic on Thailand’s border receives 500 refugees fleeing neighboring Myanmar’s civil war every […]
The Lost and the Found
NEED TO KNOW The Lost and the Found NIGERIA Nigerian military forces recently found one of the 276 schoolgirls abducted 10 years […]
Silent Treatment
NEED TO KNOW Silent Treatment KOSOVO Responding to a request from Serbia for a boycott, only around 1 percent of the ethnic […]
Plows to Swords
NEED TO KNOW Plows to Swords JAPAN A recent survey found that more than 92 percent of Japanese respondents held unfavorable views […]
Goodbye, Utopia
NEED TO KNOW Goodbye, Utopia DENMARK In 1971, hippies began squatting on an abandoned naval base in Copenhagen, Denmark, creating a community […]
Finding a Foothold
NEED TO KNOW Finding a Foothold NORTH MACEDONIA A symbol of international solidarity, University Hall, recently burned down in the North Macedonian […]
Breeding Ground
NEED TO KNOW Breeding Ground MOZAMBIQUE A jihadist insurgency with links to the Islamic State terror group has plagued Mozambique’s lawless Cabo […]
My Enemy, Myself
NEED TO KNOW My Enemy, Myself RUSSIA/ TAJIKISTAN Life in Russia has become difficult for migrants from Tajikistan and other Central Asian […]
Kitchen-Table Politics
NEED TO KNOW Kitchen-Table Politics INDIA The upcoming parliamentary election in India is expected to go well for Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
Gangland Elections
NEED TO KNOW Gangland Elections CROATIA Zoran Milanović caused a stir last month when he announced his candidacy for Croatia’s parliament as […]
The Cost of Allegiance
NEED TO KNOW The Cost of Allegiance SOLOMON ISLANDS Parliamentary and local elections in the Solomon Islands on April 17 are yet […]
Like Father Like Son
NEED TO KNOW Like Father, Like Son TOGO For years, Togolese citizens have been calling for the resignation of President Faure Gnassingbé. […]
The Wedge Between Two Giants
NEED TO KNOW The Wedge Between Two Giants MALDIVES In January, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, suspended ex-Deputy Youth Minister […]