The Peace Dividend
NEED TO KNOW The Peace Dividend UKRAINE Former American President Donald Trump recently said that, if he resided in the White House […]
Null and Void
NEED TO KNOW Null and Void CAMBODIA Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s chances of winning reelection on July 23 are very good. […]
Winning Minds, Losing Hearts
NEED TO KNOW Winning Minds, Losing Hearts SPAIN “Sanchismo” might be the wedge issue in Spain’s general election on July 23. That’s […]
Past and Present
NEED TO KNOW Past and Present URUGUAY The Admiral Graf Spee was a German warship scuttled in 1939 in Montevideo Bay in […]
The Autocrat, the Lapdog
NEED TO KNOW The Autocrat, the Lapdog BELARUS Belarussian artist and political dissident Ales Pushkin, 57, recently died in prison from an […]
Ubiquitous Aggression and Violence
NEED TO KNOW Ubiquitous Aggression and Violence SERBIA Throngs of Serbians flocked to the capital of Belgrade recently to protest against Pink […]
Twenty Years
NEED TO KNOW Twenty Years SUDAN The Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, the rebel paramilitary group fighting against the central government of […]
Not Going Anywhere
NEED TO KNOW Not Going Anywhere MEXICO Since he began his six-year term of office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel […]
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
NEED TO KNOW Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop RUSSIA The Wagner Group, the Russian military contractor, arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR) […]
The Tiger’s Stripes
NEED TO KNOW The Tiger’s Stripes EGYPT Ten years ago on July 3, the Egyptian military under Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi launched a […]
Community Policing
NEED TO KNOW Community Policing HONDURAS The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has earned plaudits from many of his people – […]
Humbled but Unbowed
NEED TO KNOW Humbled but Unbowed RUSSIA Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has survived Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group’s apparent […]
Come Visit
NEED TO KNOW Come Visit HONG KONG Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, is giving out 700,000 plane tickets to […]
Western Outpost in the East
NEED TO KNOW Western Outpost in the East LITHUANIA One of Lithuania’s first post-independence leaders after the fall of the Soviet Union […]
AI, Meet Europe
NEED TO KNOW AI, Meet Europe EUROPEAN UNION The European Parliament recently overwhelmingly passed the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act. While the […]
Cracks in the Foundation
NEED TO KNOW Cracks in the Foundation SENEGAL Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko has filed a 170-page-long court complaint in France against […]
A Voice, a Divide
NEED TO KNOW A Voice, a Divide AUSTRALIA After a recent historic parliamentary vote, Australians will vote on a constitutional amendment to […]
Pugachevshchina
NEED TO KNOW Pugachevshchina RUSSIA In the 1770s, a Cossack named Emelian Pugachev rebelled against Catherine the Great. As described in Alexander […]
Backroom Chats
NEED TO KNOW Backroom Chats CHINA American diplomats claimed that the autocratic president of China, Xi Jinping, had no clue that one […]
The Fix Is In
NEED TO KNOW The Fix Is In GUATEMALA A Guatemalan court recently convicted newspaper publisher José Rubén Zamora of money laundering and […]
Pushing For Normal
NEED TO KNOW Pushing For Normal SIERRA LEONE Samura Kamara, the leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) party and the main […]
Contextual Legacies
NEED TO KNOW Contextual Legacies BELGIUM History has been stirring passion in Belgium as the country prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary […]