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Africa’s Oldest Strongman vs. One of the World’s Youngest Nations
Museveni, 81, claims a seventh term after a blackout election marked by fear, intimidation, and a hunt for challenger Bobi Wine - while Uganda’s…
12 hrs ago • Michael Bociurkiw
World Briefing Plus: Tariff Batons, Beijing Detours, and a Freezing Ukraine: The Week the West Wobbled
The Beaver embraces the Panda as Washington rattles allies with Greenland-style brinkmanship - while Ukraine’s winter crisis exposes dangerous cracks at…
Jan 17 • Michael Bociurkiw
Canada Diversifies Toward China…While Washington Circles Overhead.
The first Beijing trip of a Canadian prime minister in eight years puts business first — but a tighter embrace comes with consequences
Jan 16 • Michael Bociurkiw
Trump Administration Steps Up Pressure on U.S. Media
A heated White House briefing and an FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home fuel alarm among press freedom advocates over an accelerating chill…
Jan 15 • Michael Bociurkiw
Diplomacy Goes Dark: Trump Tightens the Noose on Iran — and the Gulf Braces for Blowback
Direct U.S.–Iran contact has collapsed, US base in Qatar "shifts posture," and Trump’s 25% “Iran trade” tariff threat drags China - and the global…
Jan 14 • Michael Bociurkiw
No Inch of Ukraine Feels Safe Anymore
Russia unleashes nearly 300 drones & a wave of missiles as temperatures plunge. In Odesa, a chilling shift emerges: faster drones, fewer warnings, and…
Jan 13 • Michael Bociurkiw
America’s Guardrails Are Failing
From the Federal Reserve to the media and the streets, independent institutions are under sustained political assault under Trump 2.0 - and the…
Jan 12 • Michael Bociurkiw
Blackouts, Bullets, and a Breaking Point
Iran shuts down the internet, floods prisons, and warns of retaliation as unrest spirals
Jan 11 • Michael Bociurkiw
World Briefing Plus: Grain, Oil, and Gaslighting
Odesa’s battered port, Trump’s Venezuela pitch that no one’s buying, and Iran’s unrest - a World Briefing Plus analysis of crises ignored at the world’s…
Jan 10 • Michael Bociurkiw
Russia Fires a Nuclear-Capable Missile — and the West Barely Blinks
Kyiv pummelled, half the capital's buildings without heat, as Moscow escalates on multiple fronts
Jan 9 • Michael Bociurkiw
Six Years After PS752, the Skies Are Still Not Safe
On the anniversary of Flight PS752’s shoot-down over Tehran, hard lessons remain ignored - and civilian aviation is flying into greater danger.
Jan 8 • Michael Bociurkiw
Greenland and the Great White North: A Perilous Moment Under a Color-Blind, Resource-Driven Presidency
As Donald Trump's Washington asserts power without regard to borders or alliances, the Western Hemisphere grows uneasy.
Jan 7 • Michael Bociurkiw
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