NEED TO KNOW The Lost Children Three years ago, Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Chibok in northern Nigeria. Nearly 200 are still missing, USA Today reported Thursday. The fate of the missing Chibok girls isn’t the only sad tale in Boko Haram’s long reign of terror. Human...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Wanted: A Compelling Alternative South African President Jacob Zuma has been called the Teflon Don thanks to his unflappable ability to bounce back from scandal after scandal. The 74-year-old leader of the African National Congress, or ANC, has survived attempted ousters and a court...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW An Appeal to the Masses Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday meeting with King Salman. On their agenda was the plight of Filipino workers who were kicked out of the desert kingdom without pay, as well as the living conditions...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Mutual Mistrust Even under the best circumstances, tensions between Russia and the US would probably have been high ahead of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to Moscow Tuesday. A number of "difficult subjects" had made their way onto the agenda for the highly...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Confidence Crisis In the short run, the Islamic State’s attacks on two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday appear to have spurred solidarity between Muslims and Christians – who comprise around 10 percent of the country’s 91 million people. “Your terrorism...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Old Song and Dance Serbians took to the streets in recent days in protest against the election of Aleksandar Vucic as president. “Nobody intervened,” he told Politico. “When you have all your rights to protest against someone without any kind of disturbance and interruption,...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Art of Trade The leaders of the world's two largest economies are meeting each other for the first time today. One has no doubts about their agenda. "It is all about trade," President Donald Trump told the Financial Times in an interview about his...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW No U Turn It's been about eight months since the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Many observers were skeptical of the grounds for Rousseff's ouster – manipulating Brazil's federal budget. Nonetheless, they believed her exit would give the country a fresh start to deal...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Final Fight After six months of fighting, the battle for Mosul – the Islamic State's last remaining stronghold in Iraq – is reaching a fever pitch. Backed by US-led air strikes, Iraqi forces launched a campaign to reclaim the city in October. Iraqi leaders...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW A Studied Approach Prime Minister Viktor Orban has consolidated power and undercut civil liberties in Hungary for years. Now he’s squaring off against one of the richest men in the world and one of the most respected institutions that arose from the ruins of his...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW A Legal Coup Despite years of political repression, human rights abuses, economic crises and food shortages, much of the world has held out hope that President Nicolás Maduro would maintain democracy in Venezuela. That faith has now been exposed as wishful thinking. On Thursday, news...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW More Than Words After Germany and the Netherlands blocked Turkish officials earlier this month from lobbying Turkish expatriates in the two European countries to vote in favor of an upcoming constitutional referendum, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Dutch and German leaders of...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Lucky 777 Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's former number two leader, became the city's chief executive after winning two-thirds of the vote in elections on Sunday. But her win amounted to only 777 votes in a territory of over 7 million people. Despite calls for popular...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The New Norm of Low Tech Investigators are still trying to figure out why 52-year-old British national Khalid Masood drove a car into a group of pedestrians on Westminster Bridge last week before trying to storm the Houses of Parliament in London. They still...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Of Flags and Ducks The tug of war between protesters and police over opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the streets of Moscow on Sunday was an apt metaphor for Russia today. While CNN’s Fareed Zakaria recently dubbed President Vladimir Putin “the world’s most powerful man,”...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Closing the Door A year and a half after Europe's refugee crisis began, the question of what to do with the staggering amount of people still camped out on the continent remains, even as more continue to attempt the journey –aid workers fear...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Attention Please! Another bleaching event is already striking Australia's Great Barrier Reef on the heels of the one that just ended – its third and most severe die-off in 20 years. Last year's unprecedented event killed or reduced 90 percent of the reef's corals to...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Zebras and Stripes Many in Israel girded for a renewal of violence in the Gaza Strip when militant ex-convict Yehya Sinwar became the new leader of Hamas last month. One of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released in 2011 in exchange for a single Israeli soldier, he...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Beginning of the End After nine months of speculation following last year's Brexit referendum, the UK has announced it will trigger Article 50 on March 29, officially beginning negotiations for its exit from the European Union. It could take as long as two years for the UK to...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Home, Bubbling, Home After much debate in Berlin in recent years, concerns about the skyrocketing cost of housing in the German capital erupted into full-blown demonstrations this past weekend. "Massive crowding is happening to the extent that a lot of people can't pay their rent,...
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