NEED TO KNOW Profiles in Courage UKRAINE On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece from […]

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NEED TO KNOW Bully, Unmasked UKRAINE Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv Thursday as the Ukrainian government warned of bombs following Russia’s […]

NEED TO KNOW The Borderland RUSSIA/UKRAINE Ukraine means “borderland” in Slavic languages. Today, the fate of the country could determine a new […]

NEED TO KNOW Greasing the Wheels ITALY The Italian judicial system took almost 20 years to determine whether a couple living near […]

NEED TO KNOW A Race to the Bottom FRANCE Right-wing French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour recently described Roubaix, a town in northern […]

NEED TO KNOW Her Majesty’s Prerogative UNITED KINGDOM Queen Elizabeth recently announced plans for a weekend in June to celebrate her platinum […]

NEED TO KNOW A Revanchist Reset UKRAINE Despite the buildup of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably […]

NEED TO KNOW The Toady’s Dilemma BELARUS Totalitarian President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus recently issued a message to opposition figures who have […]

NEED TO KNOW A Contraption Called Democracy PORTUGAL In late 2019, the Atlantic magazine portrayed the government of Prime Minister António Costa […]

NEED TO KNOW Dissing Information WORLD Late last year, a bank executive from Monaco seemingly tweeted about the white birch forests, tasty […]

NEED TO KNOW The Technocrat and the Tycoon ITALY Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, 85, was recently admitted to the hospital […]

NEED TO KNOW Divided They Stay NORTHERN CYPRUS Turkish Cypriots for years have been reluctant to reunify with the Greek side of […]

NEED TO KNOW Unbending Science WORLD Australia deported Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic after federal court judges upheld the immigration minister’s decision […]

NEED TO KNOW The Long Goodbye BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Fikret Alic appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1992 during the […]

NEED TO KNOW The Honey-do-list UKRAINE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former television star and comedian, has installed friends and colleagues from […]

NEED TO KNOW Once More Unto the Breach WORLD As the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spread around the globe, the Netherlands […]

NEED TO KNOW Scratches in the Teflon UNITED KINGDOM The former speaker of the British House of Commons, John Bercow, recently told […]

NEED TO KNOW Woke, à la Française FRANCE In the United States, the term “woke” generally means understanding and acknowledging the historical […]

NEED TO KNOW A Global Addiction WORLD At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last month, more than 40 […]

NEED TO KNOW Tits, Tats, Tragedies UNITED KINGDOM / FRANCE British novelist and Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born in Zanzibar […]

NEED TO KNOW Face-Off RUSSIA AND UKRAINE Russia is amassing troops on the Ukrainian border. Ukrainian leaders say they can’t repel an […]

NEED TO KNOW Mining Discontent SERBIA Lithium is a crucial component in the batteries that power electric vehicles. But many Serbs don’t […]

NEED TO KNOW Backfire BELARUS Children are sleeping in the woods on the border between Belarus and Poland. Many haven’t eaten in […]