Writing Its Story
NEED TO KNOW EGYPT Writing Its Story The coronavirus pandemic devastated Egypt’s most important industry, tourism. In 2019, more than 13 million […]
Taxing the Air
NEED TO KNOW CANADA Taxing the Air The Canadian Supreme Court this year issued an important decision with worldwide implications when its […]
Steppe Politics
NEED TO KNOW MONGOLIA Steppe Politics Mongolia’s last presidential election in 2017 was extremely close. Incumbent President Khaltmaa Battulga, a former sumo wrestler, won […]
The Laws of Air
NEED TO KNOW BELARUS The Laws of Air Ryanair flight 4978 was over Belarus on a trip from Greece to Lithuania when an […]
Tribal Laws
NEED TO KNOW KENYA Tribal Laws Violence frequently mars elections in Kenya. As the Council on Foreign Relations explained, voters in the […]
Now What
NEED TO KNOW ISRAEL / WEST BANK & GAZA Now What The Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza have stopped shooting at each […]
Transformation on the Ballot
NEED TO KNOW MEXICO Transformation on the Ballot President Andrés Manuel López Obrador – whose nickname is AMLO – wants to transform […]
Voices and Choices
NEED TO KNOW IRAQ Voices and Choices The United Nations believes that free and fair elections can help Iraq move on from […]
Alpine Exceptionalism
NEED TO KNOW SWITZERLAND Alpine Exceptionalism Swiss Health Minister Alain Berset recently admitted that he should have been more skeptical about the […]
Unrecognized, Undaunted
NEED TO KNOW SOMALILAND Unrecognized, Undaunted Somaliland declared independence from Somalia 30 years ago as the latter was collapsing. Today, the self-declared […]
The Taxman Cometh
NEED TO KNOW CAYMAN ISLANDS The Taxman Cometh The European Union removed the Cayman Islands from its so-called tax haven blacklist late […]
Tarnished Sunset
NEED TO KNOW GREECE Tarnished Sunset A Greek member of the European Parliament, Ioannis Lagos, was recently extradited from Brussels to his […]
Losing the Future
NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AMERICA Losing the Future So many players on Argentina’s powerhouse soccer team River Plate were sick with Covid-19 […]
Worry and Leisure
NEED TO KNOW SEYCHELLES Worry and Leisure Americans Shivani Pathak and Bo Sutton were both vaccinated when they went to the Seychelles […]
Survivor
NEED TO KNOW SYRIA Survivor Syrian President Bashar al-Assad presided over a civil war that, since 2011, has resulted in 500,000 of […]
Precious and Few
NEED TO KNOW WORLD Precious and Few People around the world are stressing out over rare earth metals. As Britannica.com explained, rare […]
A Toe Out the Door
NEED TO KNOW SCOTLAND A Toe Out the Door Brexit was a grueling process that ended 47 years of Britain’s membership in […]
Taxes, and Everything
NEED TO KNOW COLOMBIA Taxes, and Everything At first, they took to the streets to protest against a tax plan they called […]
A Rubber Democracy
NEED TO KNOW VIETNAM A Rubber Democracy Vietnam and Laos fought against the United States together during the Vietnam War. Laos was […]
By the Numbers
NEED TO KNOW AUSTRALIA By the Numbers Caroline Andersen has been fighting for five years to learn why her son, Wayne Fella […]
Historic Violence
NEED TO KNOW ISRAEL/ WEST BANK & GAZA Historic Violence We’ve seen it before, all too often. Hamas fires rockets at Israel. […]
Truth and Consequences
NEED TO KNOW ARMENIA Truth and Consequences President Joe Biden recently phoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to say that the US […]
Middle Eastern #MeToo
NEED TO KNOW KUWAIT Middle Eastern #MeToo Farah Hamza Akbar and her family told police that she feared that a man whose […]
New Leader, Old Torch
NEED TO KNOW CUBA New Leader, Old Torch It was the end of an era when Raúl Castro resigned as chief of […]