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Spend Now or Pay Later: Europe Is Running Out of Time
The US isn’t coming. Europe isn’t ready. And Russia’s war is spreading faster than anyone in London or Brussels seems willing to admit.
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Palanca Under Fire: Russia Tests Europe's Edges, From Moldova to the Baltics
Reporting from Moldova on today's Russian strike on Palanca, as Poland rushes Patriots to its border, Berlin warns of trouble in the Baltics, and Kyiv…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Madam Governor, Madam Secretary-General, Madam Director-General?
Tennessee is set to elect its first female governor, a woman leads the race to run the UN, and three of six WHO contenders are women. But are they…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Canada Fractures, Kyiv Burns, While Moscow and Mar-a-Lago Cash In
World Briefing Plus: The week that was and the week ahead: Quebec's PQ wave, Alberta's referendum, the US rupture, and Ukraine's darkening autumn, from…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Kyiv, Frontline City: Winter Is Coming for Ukraine - and Then for Europe
Kyiv residents now call their city a frontline. With Moscow's plan to freeze Ukraine under way, many are deciding whether to stay or go - and Europe and…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The Pilot Who Shouldn't Have Been in the Cockpit
An Omani co-pilot, a broken aviation rule and a nervous Gulf: the flydubai attack tests the Abraham Accords
 • Michael Bociurkiw

September 2026

Terror at 35,000 Feet: The Threat Inside the Cockpit
A Flydubai co-pilot allegedly stabbed a colleague and tried to bring down an Israel-bound jet. The hardest question isn't how he was stopped. It's how…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The Break-Up Note That Never Names the Ex
Canada used the UN podium to announce it's leaving. It just didn't say who it's leaving.
 • Michael Bociurkiw
First They Robbed Moldova. Now They Launder Money for Putin's War
Leaked files show Ilan Shor's A7 network moving billions for Russia's war — staffed by the same crew behind the 2014 bank heist
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The World Came to New York. It Left Less Safe
From the UN floor: a week of summits with little to show, a White House picking which reporters get through the door, and a stark warning about Putin's…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The Power the UN Won't Use
From New York: why the UN’s biggest weakness isn't a lack of muscle but a lack of nerve. Plus: Putin gets a Miami invite, Xi brings pandas, and Kyiv…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
No Deterrence: Putin Believes He Can Push Into Europe, and Nobody Will Stop Him
A sobering closed-door briefing on the UNGA sidelines, plus Pezeshkian's defiance, Putin's G20 invite, Xi in Washington, and why Ukraine's free press…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
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