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 […]

NEED TO KNOW Auf Wiedersehen, Mutti GERMANY Acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently warned her fellow Christian Democrats that the fourth wave […]

NEED TO KNOW A Spoon Full of Salt EUROPE Austria recently instituted a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated, forbidding anyone without a […]

NEED TO KNOW Cold Truths, Hot Air WORLD World leaders, diplomats, environmentalists and fossil fuel industry executives who attended the COP26 climate […]

NEED TO KNOW The Marlboro Men MONTENEGRO The US and other international observers have turned a blind eye over the years to […]

NEED TO KNOW The Vanishing Villages ROMANIA The bodies of Romanians who perished in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have been placed in […]

NEED TO KNOW Round and Round We Go BULGARIA Bulgarians will vote in a total of four elections this year. Even so, […]

NEED TO KNOW Eastern Front POLAND Last month, the European Court of Justice ordered Poland to pay $1.2 million a day for […]

NEED TO KNOW Fed Up SWEDEN A gunman shot and killed Swedish rapper Einar recently in Stockholm. The 19-year-old, award-winning entertainer was […]

NEED TO KNOW Blah, Blah, Blah WORLD Recently, Larry Fink, the chief executive of Black Rock, one of the world’s biggest asset […]