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April 12, 2019

Drama Ahead

NEED TO KNOW FINLAND [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e8d98a0c-482c-4039-bb59-c3ed0e363f7c.png"] Drama Ahead An experiment giving Finns a universal basic income suggested the practice would reduce stress and strengthen community cohesion. “Respondents who received a basic income had more trust in other people and in societal institutions – politicians, political parties, police and the courts –...

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April 11, 2019

A Colorful, Complex Festival

NEED TO KNOW INDIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d10ca9e0-a38f-4fef-91cb-454e046a7fe1.png"] A Colorful, Complex Festival More than 900 million voters are slated to elect 543 lawmakers to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, between April 11 and late May. It is the world's largest democratic festival, complex, colorful and chaotic....

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April 10, 2019

A Neighborly Referendum

NEED TO KNOW BELIZE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b7b6c3ad-5702-4092-8d86-79d253bc2c43.png"] A Neighborly Referendum The world's first “overwater bungalow coworking space” will be available to globetrotters who enjoy working vacations on tropical islands off the coast of Belize. Travel and Leisure magazine featured the bungalow in a recent issue. It’s a sign of how the...

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April 09, 2019

Judges Versus Voters

Today we are introducing a new feature we hope will increase your enjoyment of DailyChatter – a daily map to position the country in our lead feature, Need to Know. NEED TO KNOW ISRAEL [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/4eb1114d-3a8f-4e5d-a79b-a29d71e260fc.png"] Judges Versus Voters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently met with Russian President Vladimir Putin...

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April 08, 2019

African Glasnost

Today we are introducing a new feature we hope will increase your enjoyment of DailyChatter – a daily map to position the country in our lead feature, Need to Know. NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ebcf7d57-2cd4-4a70-a30c-6c92b9a1b48a.png"] African Glasnost Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first year in office ended with an...

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April 05, 2019

Of Bribes and Fire’s Fury

Today we are introducing a new feature we hope will increase your enjoyment of DailyChatter – a daily map to position the country in our lead feature, Need to Know. NEED TO KNOW BANGLADESH [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/32f3148b-6567-49a5-9084-40138070370d.png"] Of Bribes and Fire's Fury The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City...

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April 04, 2019

Taking the Silk Road

Today we are introducing a new feature we hope will increase your enjoyment of DailyChatter – a daily map to position the country in our lead feature, Need to Know. NEED TO KNOW ITALY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d1f5e652-8ba9-4650-8185-37353156716c.png"] Taking the Silk Road For decades, China’s influence on the world stage has waxed...

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April 03, 2019

Devil’s Night

NEED TO KNOW SOLOMON ISLANDS Devil's Night A Chinese oil tanker ran aground in the Solomon Islands in early February. More than 80 tons of fuel have leaked from the wreck, threatening a UNESCO World Heritage site described as the "largest raised coral atoll in the world,” National Public...

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April 02, 2019

Herders and Hunters

NEED TO KNOW MALI [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/244231b0-61bf-4955-aac5-bd3cc3d9bba3.png"] Herders and Hunters Mali’s ethnic Dogon hunters and semi-nomadic Fulani herders have long clashed over land and water. The recent massacre of more than 150 Fulani villagers – a third of whom were children – was a turning point, however. Wielding guns and machetes...

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April 01, 2019

Sympathy, Not Revenge

NEED TO KNOW NEW ZEALAND [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/48e935db-aced-4236-9191-e27c19bb83b1.png"] Sympathy, Not Revenge Americans know too well the toll of mass shootings. So some of the talk after a white nationalist attacked two mosques in New Zealand on March 15, killing 50 worshippers, was familiar to US citizens. “Why did New Zealand intelligence fail...

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March 29, 2019

The People’s Servant

NEED TO KNOW UKRAINE The People’s Servant Ukraine is perhaps the most unfortunate country in Europe. Five years ago, amid a fraying economy and a political crisis that forced its former president to flee to Moscow, Russia effectively cleaved off half the country, annexing the Crimean peninsula in 2014...

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March 28, 2019

Tick Tock

NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM Tick Tock The United Kingdom was supposed to quit the European Union tomorrow. But nobody could agree on how. So British and European leaders postponed it. “The cliff-edge date will be delayed,” said European Council President Donald Tusk. At issue is whether Britain leaves without...

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March 27, 2019

For Once, a Graceful Exit

NEED TO KNOW KAZAKHSTAN For Once, a Graceful Exit Soon after he took the oath of office on March 20, the new acting president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, announced that the name of the country’s capital would change from Astana to Nursultan. The move was to honor Nursultan Nazarbayev,...

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March 26, 2019

A ‘Negative Peace’

NEED TO KNOW INDIA/PAKISTAN A 'Negative Peace' India’s cricket team recently courted controversy by wearing military caps on the playing field. The camouflage hats were meant to honor 40 paramilitary officers killed last month in a terror attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, which is under Indian control but Pakistan claims...

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March 25, 2019

Has Spring Arrived?

NEED TO KNOW ALGERIA Has Spring Arrived? Call them hooligans. Call them activists. Either way, young soccer fans are raising their voices and calling for change in Algeria. “A marginalized class will always find a way to carve out its own territory and, in Algeria, that space exists in...

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March 22, 2019

A Big Show of Votes

NEED TO KNOW THAILAND A Big Show of Votes A lot is riding on Thailand’s parliamentary elections on March 24. It will be the first time that voters choose their leaders since a military coup in 2014. “(The elections) are widely seen as an opportunity for a fresh start after...

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March 21, 2019

Steps Forward, Steps Back

NEED TO KNOW BURKINA FASO Steps Forward, Steps Backward BBC reporters recently discovered a sad date scribbled on a school blackboard in Foubé in northern Burkina Faso: December 15, 2018. That’s the last time children attended class in the building. "A lot of schools have been torched. Teachers have been...

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March 19, 2019

Living Off Fire

NEED TO KNOW SPAIN Living Off Fire The trial of a dozen Catalan separatists has been proceeding for more than a month in Madrid. Separatist leaders who organized Catalonia’s October 2017 independence referendum have testified that their demonstrations ahead of the vote were spontaneous, peaceful and festive, wrote an...

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March 18, 2019

Money, Power and Blood

NEED TO KNOW LIBYA Money, Power and Blood Libyans ousted the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi more than eight years ago with the help of the US and NATO. Today, amid criticism that the West’s intervention was a failure, Libya is still reeling from the chaotic power vacuum that arose...

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March 15, 2019

Banking on Sanity

NEED TO KNOW SLOVAKIA Banking on Sanity For years, populists have been winning office in Central Europe, often exploiting xenophobia and capitalizing on sluggish economies that have been widening the gap between rich and poor. The trend appears to be changing in Slovakia. Zuzana Caputova, a civil rights and good-government...

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