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February 19, 2020

Public Health

NEED TO KNOW HONG KONG [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ed89ce6f-df7c-493b-809a-681d51fa4904.png"] Public Health Hong Kong officials recently evacuated some residents from an apartment block because they feared the deadly new coronavirus was spreading through its plumbing. A fascinating story in CNN told of two people in the high-rise contracting the virus. They were...

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February 18, 2020

Freedom of Choice

NEED TO KNOW IRAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/aa73e799-3df4-4d8a-8ec5-35a9feeb2bb4.png"] Freedom of Choice Iranian voters will elect a new parliament on Friday. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged people to turn out, saying Iranians exercising their franchise would “disappoint the enemy,” reported Chinese news service Xinhua. Presumably, the enemy is the US. Following the American...

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February 17, 2020

Homefront

NEED TO KNOW CANADA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7ee49a6-d768-4bd1-93d6-b44b086c3c21.png"] Homefront The Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial Socialism is proving to be a headache for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada. The activist group recently shut down Canada’s busiest port, in Vancouver, British Columbia, for a day. “We’re part of a nationwide movement to...

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February 14, 2020

Mining for a New Leader

NEED TO KNOW GUINEA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/963d6fc3-90db-4090-ad9a-da882d906f12.png"] Mining for a New Leader International mining companies are circling around massive, high-quality ore deposits in Guinea. As Bloomberg reported, if the companies have their way, the small West African country could become the third-biggest exporter of iron ore in the world after...

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February 13, 2020

Uncharted Waters

NEED TO KNOW VIETNAM [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3f17a3ec-f2fd-42ee-b8c2-dd23d117cb41.png"] Uncharted Waters Vietnam has been a success story for globalization. The communist Southeast Asian country has become a magnet for foreign investment and a hub for manufacturing in recent years. Economic growth has been around 6.6 percent since 2000. But Vietnam has also become remarkably...

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February 12, 2020

Contest of Our Time

NEED TO KNOW CHILE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/baed026e-8c02-42fc-8c27-383b8bf87a6c.png"] Contest of Our Time Free marketeers have long considered Chile a darling among South American countries due to its reputation as conservative, pro-business and stable. But recently one of the country’s best-known exports has been a feminist protest song called “The Rapist Is You,”...

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February 11, 2020

Skepticism of Liberty

NEED TO KNOW EASTERN EUROPE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ddbd2c82-2ca6-4014-b1ec-624b21d6be95.png"] Skepticism of Liberty Judging by the success of so-called “illiberal,” populist governments in Hungary, Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, some Americans might wonder what went wrong as these countries transitioned away from communism in the years after the Berlin Wall fell...

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February 10, 2020

Grand Plans

NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/2beac6fe-a680-4765-a2ff-d329629a897c.png"] Grand Plans Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have stalled. The former insists on a complete cease-fire before the talks can restart, while the latter has only agreed to a “reduction of violence,” explained Al Jazeera. The US, meanwhile, wants...

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February 07, 2020

A Question of Legitimacy

NEED TO KNOW CAMEROON [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/6863deda-11be-43e3-9033-4bec4b249409.png"] A Question of Legitimacy Around 50,000 Cameroonian refugees have been flooding into Nigeria in recent weeks. They fear violence will flare up in the run-up to Cameroon’s local and parliamentary elections on February 9, wrote Voice of America. Four years ago, civil unrest overtook the...

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February 06, 2020

From The Rubble

NEED TO KNOW HAITI [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/49e3c059-ec02-49d2-b8d4-2a7e10c83ff3.png"] From The Rubble Ten years ago this month, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble. As many as 300,000 people died and 300,000 were injured in the disaster, according to French humanitarian group ACTED. Today, the island – one of the world’s...

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February 05, 2020

Losing Hope

NEED TO KNOW ROMANIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9aaceeea-9490-44fc-a4ad-151c831adffc.png"] Losing Hope Bucharest is supposedly the Paris of the East. Citing the French influence on the Romanian capital’s Beaux-Arts architecture, the Daily Beast recommended a “flânerie,” or aimless walk, through the city to experience a “surreal sense of dislocation” between the City of Light...

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February 04, 2020

Spinning One’s Wheels

NEED TO KNOW SOMALIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c56dd5fb-c2b6-48fc-91de-fc8608ae6104.png"] Spinning One’s Wheels Climate change is wreaking havoc in Somalia. People are making it worse. Massive locust swarms are plaguing the East African country and its neighbors. That’s a problem in a region where many sit on the precipice of famine. A swarm can...

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February 03, 2020

Heart and Soul

NEED TO KNOW INDIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/1ac703d1-8192-40be-95ea-427a8f7ed9ee.png"] Heart and Soul An unstable man with right-wing tendencies took a gun to a student protest in India recently, eventually wounding one demonstrator. A remarkable Reuters video shows a chaotic scene as crowds surround the man with the gun. In a Facebook post, the...

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January 31, 2020

Getting It Together

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/6c258edc-b123-4d47-98e3-f42e226ea64f.png"] Getting It Together As many as 3 million people died in the Nigerian civil war that ended 50 years ago this month. The war kicked off in 1967 when leaders in the country’s southeast declared an independent Republic of Biafra. This CNN story has...

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January 30, 2020

An Exit from Crisis

NEED TO KNOW VENEZUELA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/f52c66cd-9299-42e6-acd8-f970f62c524b.png"] An Exit from Crisis Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido recently defied a travel ban to attend an international conference in Colombia, where he met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the BBC reported. The two men had plenty to discuss. The speaker of Venezuela’s...

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January 29, 2020

The Next Big Thing

NEED TO KNOW AFRICA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3d9c9459-9302-4fc1-a060-e8206615789c.png"] The Next Big Thing Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is bullish on Africa. The continent has 1.3 billion people. Forty percent are younger than 16. Six of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies are in Africa. The upside is astronomical. “Each time I go, I...

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