NEED TO KNOW GUAM [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8cf6d764-462e-449a-a643-e61b65c58c04.png"] Historic Liabilities When Walter Denton was 13 years old and growing up in the US territory of Guam, he told his mother that Father Tony Apuron had raped him. He also told another priest, but nobody believed him. “In a place that emphasizes strict obedience...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW TURKEY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7690ac2f-dd96-41b5-a42f-055b31e06d65.png"] Missile Diplomacy US-backed Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria are in retreat. As the BBC explained, the troops pulled back from areas along the Turkish border as part of an agreement between US and Turkish leaders. Turkey considers the Kurdish forces in Syria to be an...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW EASTERN EUROPE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e2cfe4a5-51a1-425f-b068-e5ad1da5d4f1.png"] Dueling Memories Europeans last month celebrated two anniversaries dating from the modern era. Aug. 19 marked the 30th anniversary of the so-called “Pan-European Picnic” in the city of Sopron in northwestern Hungary. In 1989, the then-communist government of Hungary and the neutral government of...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW ERITREA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/aa5ffd4b-5322-485b-84c2-7800b19541d2.png"] We Don't Need No Education Every Eritrean high school student spends the 12th grade at the Warsai Yikealo Secondary School and Vocational Training Center near the border with Sudan. The students quickly realize that reading and arithmetic are not uppermost in their masters’ minds. “From...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e5b071a0-f819-400f-82ba-dc62c31b3637.png"] Waiting Rooms of History American actor Richard Gere recently delivered humanitarian supplies to a boat of migrants that had been plying the Mediterranean for more than a week because Italian and Maltese authorities refused to let it dock at their ports. Gere was...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW CHILE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3d56051e-ec6e-4ba2-992e-95cf1329a7fa.png"] Rats, Sewage and Humming Economies Free marketers have long championed the economic success of Chile. The South American country’s neo-liberal reforms in the 1980s and 1990s – cutting public benefits, lowering taxes – arguably set the stage for a renaissance that helped reduce poverty...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b5669185-ec28-4ec3-8bca-4f051edcc978.png"] Protecting the Innocents Sakina Bibi innocently believed her marriage was an excuse to dress up and wear jewelry. She was only 13 years old. But her husband insisted that she prove her fertility. A month later, she was pregnant and suffering. “I had severe...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/590fa22c-cb98-46d1-92e0-b6539b2a1173.png"] ‘Chernobyl on Ice’ Chernobyl has been a real tourist draw lately. “The Ukrainian government is promoting the Exclusion Zone as a tourist destination,” wrote a Boston Globe correspondent, referring to the area evacuated permanently after the 1986 nuclear disaster. “I had to go.” Visitors...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW SUDAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7ff13e19-e031-4ed8-b29a-3f9f5eaaae60.png"] Accounting The signing of a peace deal between the Sudanese government and protesters in August was arguably the most positive international development of the year. In April, as anti-government protests grew over complaints of corruption and economic stagnation, Sudan’s military ousted former dictator Omar...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW ITALY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d1f5e652-8ba9-4650-8185-37353156716c.png"] Possibilities The 134 migrants were at the “breaking point” as their rescue ship, dubbed the Open Arms, remained anchored off the coast of Italy’s southernmost island for six days earlier this month. Many had been on the Spanish charity-operated ship for 19 days...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW IRELAND [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/837de6c4-b5ea-4e00-b61f-328197110d67.png"] Gimme Shelter An Irish university student became famous after he tweeted a photo of a long, winding queue of people waiting to view an apartment that cost around $1,100 a month but reportedly was moldy. The student, Tom Redmond, called out Irish Housing Minister...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/1588c620-ee29-4832-8238-ceffca718aa1.png"] Buckle Up In early August, when security forces descended on the home of Almazbek Atambayev to detain him for questioning in a corruption case, the former president of Kyrgyzstan grabbed his rifle. Atambayev, 62, viewed the investigation as an unfair political attack, the New...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW AMAZON BASIN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ef81c211-c0fb-4e21-a904-be4d939e55c6.png"] Gasping For Air Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been under fire for his stewardship of the precious Amazon Basin, the so-called “lungs of the Earth” that filter carbon out of the atmosphere and sustain a remarkably diverse ecology. Deforestation has soared under the conservative...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW LAOS [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/5da738b9-27e1-4074-b49b-c2dd13c9a423.png"] Moving On Laos is straggling into the 21st century. But it has demons from the distant and not-so-distant past that it continues to grapple with. For example, deformities, disabilities and other medical ailments afflict many children born along the country’s eastern border with Vietnam....
Read full story →Good morning, today is Monday August 19th, 2019, and this is your “World In 2 Minutes” from DailyChatter. NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AFRICA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e87ee4a1-acc3-47d4-ab24-99620c359db4.png"] A History of Taking Demonstrators sporting socialist slogans took to the streets of South Africa last month. “Yes to land expropriation without compensation!” read one...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW JAPAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b51a2c6c-6c79-4bdd-a5f7-9da486138719.png"] Unforgiving Machinery A trade war is threatening the peace and prosperity of Asia. This time, however, neither China nor US President Donald Trump is to blame. Instead, the commercial contretemps is pitting Japan against South Korea. The dispute started over South Korean demands related to Japan’s...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW NIGER [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/dac255cb-f90a-4448-a883-d3ac2d9b7103.png"] On the Edge In 2017, jihadist militants ambushed a unit of American special forces in Niger. The Pentagon recently issued a report blaming junior officers for the incident that resulted in the deaths of four soldiers, the New York Times wrote. Since then, however,...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8c238c0e-e370-4880-bc53-0ac24ba71887.png"] Reason and Faith Pizzamaker Domino’s has been stockpiling tomato sauce, frozen chicken, pineapple and tuna in the UK in the run-up to Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union on Oct. 31. The chain is afraid of running out of its most popular pizza...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW IRAQ [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/33937638-6eed-4550-afae-cdf6ed1357a6.png"] Bombs and Potholes Sangar Khaleel was a Mosul resident who became a fixer – a journalistic term referring to an assistant or interpreter – for reporters covering the Iraqi government’s fight against Islamic State. Two years after the militants’ defeat, the northern Iraqi...
Read full story →Good morning, today is Monday August 12th, 2019, and this is your "World In 2 Minutes" from DailyChatter. NEED TO KNOW KASHMIR [map url=https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d5affbce-8a64-44ee-adf0-ac550cca9f1f.png] Playing With Fire Conflicts over Kashmir have sparked multiple wars and ongoing skirmishes between India and Pakistan in the 20th century. Many now fear another is...
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