NEED TO KNOW Name of the Game President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines came up during Secretary of State Designate Rex Tillerson’s […]

NEED TO KNOW The Countdown With the Islamic State (IS) effectively driven out of their North-African stronghold in Libya, the Mosul operation […]

NEED TO KNOW Facing Up Kosovo’s leaders are calling on a French court to release Ramush Haradinaj, an ex-prime minister and former guerrilla […]

NEED TO KNOW Reaping and Sowing Britain is preparing to reap the harvest of seeds sowed in 2016. On Sunday, the potentially […]

NEED TO KNOW Fighting For Scraps Zimbabwe appears headed for its second major public health crisis in eight years. On Thursday, Voice […]

NEED TO KNOW Win-wins and Losses Amid the American presidential election, Brexit, the Syrian Civil War, terrorism in Europe and other big […]

NEED TO KNOW Sideshows and Backfires When Arab ambassadors recently asked about America’s plans for the Middle East, one of President-elect Donald […]

NEED TO KNOW Tourism and Tyranny The communist-style military parade that Reuters covered in Havana on Monday was a fitting symbol of […]

NEED TO KNOW Excelsior The New Year’s Day attack in Istanbul occurred at the end of a bloody year in Turkey. The […]

NEED TO KNOW Befitting End The Thursday announcement of a Russian-backed truce in Syria was a fitting end to the year. The […]

NEED TO KNOW NAFTA: Here to Stay With Donald Trump’s administration soon to become a reality, many are wondering how he plans […]

NEED TO KNOW Walking Among Land Mines An 81-year-old Maronite Christian admiringly called The General was elected president of Lebanon earlier this […]

NEED TO KNOW An Incendiary Mix Not a lot appears to have changed in Tibet since China cracked down on demonstrations and […]

NEED TO KNOW A Call on Christmas Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was livid over the United States’ decision to abstain from voting […]

NEED TO KNOW Myanmar’s Shame Hopes were high in 2010 when Myanmar’s military junta freed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi after […]

NEED TO KNOW Once More Unto the Breach In recent years, it’s been common to hear that, while violence in the far-flung […]

NEED TO KNOW Drip, Drip, Drip “Berlin Loses Its Innocence” read the headline in the global edition of the German business daily […]

NEED TO KNOW Zuma’s Rocky Years This year was rocky for South African President Jacob Zuma. Next year could be rockier. On […]

NEED TO KNOW Disasters Ending and Beginning The fall of Aleppo was a humanitarian disaster that will likely go down in history […]

NEED TO KNOW Unnatural Disaster The fall of Aleppo was a humanitarian disaster that will likely go down in history as a […]

NEED TO KNOW Concentrating Power Kyrgyzstan became the latest country to upend its internal politics by holding a referendum over the weekend […]

NEED TO KNOW Italian Baggage New Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni is already facing a gauntlet of political obstacles to his hastily assembled […]

NEED TO KNOW China Under Trump Could President-elect Donald Trump be rehearsing to perform “Nixon in China” backwards? Whereas Nixon reached out […]

NEED TO KNOW A Growing Mire An Irish High Court will be considering an important question next year: whether Britain can reverse […]