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September 23, 2020

Soldiers of Misfortune

NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/db8acf88-8b4f-4b1c-bf9a-1e71d4eee94b.png"] Soldiers of Misfortune Russian jets recently ran sorties over Libya in support of a rebel commander and mercenaries who, coincidentally, had close ties to officials within the Kremlin. The United Nations arms embargo bans such weapons of war in Libya. But, as the New...

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September 22, 2020

Lingering Bits of Glass

NEED TO KNOW GERMANY [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/96d66e57-2644-40b9-aed7-fc66370c3077.png"] Lingering Bits of Glass A German court recently convicted a 93-year-old former SS guard of Nazi war crimes. Bruno Dey was a guard at a concentration camp at Stutthof, near Gdansk in Poland, for almost a year through April 1945. He was found guilty...

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September 21, 2020

Shrink the Swamp

NEED TO KNOW ITALY [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/13ef7d88-e231-4aaa-9970-c3480223c0d5.png"] Shrink the Swamp Americans have an extremely low opinion of Congress. Italians share their disdain. Now they appear poised to do something about it. Shrink it. On Monday, voters go to the polls in the last day of a two-day referendum that could alter the...

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September 14, 2020

From Peril to Peril

NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/597ff6f5-aa2a-4913-81c8-7a38f364a41b.png"] From Peril to Peril Boubacar Wann Diallo has been giving proper burials to migrants who wash up, dead, on the shores of his community in Morocco. “It’s a joy for me to bury them,” Wann Diallo, a devout Muslim, told the New...

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September 07, 2020

Speaking, and Dying

NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/db8acf88-8b4f-4b1c-bf9a-1e71d4eee94b.png"] Speaking, and Dying Russian blogger and dissident Yegor Zhukov, 22, had just finished a live interview on YouTube. It was around 10 p.m. He was outside, near his apartment building in Moscow when two men mugged him. He said the men focused on...

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September 03, 2020

Making Europe Great Again

NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/597ff6f5-aa2a-4913-81c8-7a38f364a41b.png"] Making Europe Great Again The European Union is sending $3.25 billion in economic aid to Greece to help the country remain afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic, reported Ekathimerini.com, an English-language newspaper based in Athens. The aid was part of a recovery package...

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August 28, 2020

Let’s Fly the White, Red and White

NEED TO KNOW BELARUS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3dffa11e-ac63-436f-a4ed-735a6dabc4a6.png"] Let’s Fly the White, Red and White Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is not backing down. The leader of the opposition in the former Soviet republic of Belarus fled to Lithuania after she lost an election to President Alexander Lukashenko on August 9. She feared for her...

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August 27, 2020

Breaking Away

NEED TO KNOW MONTENEGRO [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/4b30f1e1-b1f1-4c0b-8877-a8d9773d57e4.png"] Breaking Away The small Balkan country on the Adriatic Sea, Montenegro, holds parliamentary elections at the end of the month. The vote on August 30 will be held against a backdrop of culture, religion and foreign influence. Elected officials are in a conflict with...

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August 14, 2020

The Smell of Desperation

NEED TO KNOW TURKEY [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c729e5f1-8c42-44f8-a040-a59baad60df0.png"] The Smell of Desperation Boston Celtics basketball player Enes Kanter recently said that “goons” associated with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been sending him death threats, including calls for his decapitation. The 28-year-old Turkish center is an outspoken critic of Erdogan’s alleged...

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August 11, 2020

A Game of Risk

NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/597ff6f5-aa2a-4913-81c8-7a38f364a41b.png"] A Game of Risk American troops arrived in what would become the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II. They have become the backbone of the NATO alliance that helped win the Cold War and remained after West Germany reunited with...

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August 07, 2020

Quixote’s Girlfriends

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,883,657 (+1.24%) Brazil: 2,912,212 (+1.86%) India: 2,027,074 (+3.18%) Russia: 870,187 (+0.61%) South Africa: 538,184 (+1.57%) Mexico: 462,690 (+1.44%) Peru:...

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August 06, 2020

The Endgame

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,823,891 (+1.10%) Brazil: 2,859,073 (+2.04%) India: 1,964,536 (+2.95%) Russia: 864,948 (+0.60%) South Africa: 529,877 (+1.64%) Mexico: 456,100 (+1.36%) Peru:...

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August 03, 2020

Ringing the Bells

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,667,957 (+1.03%) Brazil: 2,733,677 (+0.95%) India: 1,803,695 (+3.03%) Russia: 849,277 (0.00%)** South Africa: 511,485 (+1.63%) Mexico: 439,046 (+1.12%) Peru:...

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July 31, 2020

Boiling for a Fight

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,494,601 (+1.53%) Brazil: 2,610,102 (+2.27%) India: 1,638,321 (+3.56%) Russia: 838,461 (+0.66%) South Africa: 482,169 (+2.34%) Mexico: 416,179 (+1.83%) Peru:...

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July 29, 2020

Oh, the Places You’ll (Not) Go!

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,352,084 (+1.33%) Brazil: 2,483,191 (+1.67%) India: 1,531,669 (+3.49%) Russia: 822,060 (0.00%)** South Africa: 459,761 (+1.60%) Mexico: 402,761 (+1.84%) Peru:...

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July 24, 2020

Ties, Opaque and Dirty

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,038,863 (+1.71%) Brazil: 2,287,475 (+2.69%) India: 1,288,108 (+3.98%) Russia: 793,720 (+0.74%) South Africa: 408,052 (+3.32%) Peru: 371,096 (+1.24%) Mexico:...

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July 21, 2020

The Sacred, the Profane

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 3,830,926 (+1.53%) Brazil: 2,118,646 (+0.97%) India: 1,155,338 (+3.32%) Russia: 776,212 (+0.77%) South Africa: 373,628 (+2.55%) Peru: 353,590 (0.00%)** Mexico:...

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July 20, 2020

Plus ça Change

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 3,773,260 (+1.67%) Brazil: 2,098,389 (+1.13%) India: 1,118,206 (+3.75%) Russia: 770,311 (+0.80%) South Africa: 364,328 (+3.83%) Peru: 353,590 (+1.17%) Mexico:...

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July 14, 2020

Blind Spots

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 3,364,547 (+1.80%) Brazil: 1,884,967 (+1.09%) India: 906,752 (+3.24%) Russia: 738,787 (+1.76%) Peru: 330,123 (+1.16%) Chile: 317,657 (+0.83%) Mexico: 304,435...

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July 10, 2020

Showdown

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 3,118,109 (+2.06%) Brazil: 1,755,779 (+2.49%) India: 793,802 (+3.45%) Russia: 706,240 (+0.93%) Peru: 316,448 (+1.13%) Chile: 306,216 (+1.03%) UK: 289,165...

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