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 […]
Pride and Pressure
NEED TO KNOW Pride and Pressure KYRGYZSTAN D Billions is a quartet of Kyrgyz singers whose performances for kids on YouTube have […]
Intrigue in the Palace
NEED TO KNOW Intrigue in the Palace COLOMBIA Leftist leaders from around the globe recently issued an open letter to the Colombian […]
When the Levee Breaks
NEED TO KNOW When the Levee Breaks RUSSIA/ UKRAINE Theories abound about the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Russian-occupied southern […]
Direction: Hopelessness
NEED TO KNOW Direction: Hopelessness CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Fighting in the civil war in Sudan has prompted 14,000 refugees to flee across […]
Settlement of Evil
NEED TO KNOW Settlement of Evil POLAND A mile-long mass of hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Warsaw, […]
Mission Wealth
NEED TO KNOW Mission Wealth LAOS Anousa “Jack” Luangsuphom is a prominent activist and critic of the authoritarian, communist government of Laos. […]
Far North Face Off
NEED TO KNOW Far North Face Off NORWAY Norwegian officials recently warned their citizens to avoid Hvaldimir, a beluga whale that swims […]