Tweet Control
NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA Tweet Control When Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information and Culture announced a new ban on Twitter on June […]
Deadly Impatience
NEED TO KNOW INDIA Deadly Impatience The Taj Mahal reopened to visitors recently. Officials closed the 17th-century mausoleum honoring the Mughal Emperor […]
A Taxing Issue
NEED TO KNOW WORLD A Taxing Issue At their recent meeting in Britain, leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations accepted […]
Living Ghosts
NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA Living Ghosts Thousands have perished and more than 2 million people have fled their homes in Tigray, a […]
Exorcising Enemies
NEED TO KNOW IRAN Exorcising Enemies Iran and world leaders hope to revive the 2015 nuclear accords before Iranian voters elect a […]
The Defeated
NEED TO KNOW ARMENIA The Defeated Serzh Sargsyan, a former Armenian president and prime minister now running for parliament, recently pledged to […]
Repression By Grammar
NEED TO KNOW WORLD Repression By Grammar Traditional Czech speakers add “ova” to the last names of females. The suffix literally means […]
Borderlines
NEED TO KNOW WORLD Borderlines Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei recently blamed the US for attracting migrants seeking a haven from violence and […]
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 […]