Gazprom is cracking the whip in Kiev, requiring its delinquent customer to prepay its June gas bill by next Friday. This isn’t just a problem for Ukraine, though: Some 15 percent of Europe’s gas supply could be affected, if Ukraine can’t come up with the funds.

The North Korean news agency just directed some unspeakably vile and racist insults at President Obama and South Korean President Park.

The left has always held up the Veterans Affairs hospitals as shining examples of socialized medicine. But new revelations about secret waiting lists at a VA hospital in Phoenix paint a very different picture.

Myanmar’s government prides itself for the strides it has made on press and other freedom indices, but its record, especially when it comes to the treatment of Muslim minorities in the west, remains dismal.

The EU may be giving up on its plan to snub Canada’s dirty tar sands crude. A pushy Putin may have something to do with that.

Pew’s latest survey has a lot of good data on Ukraine. Here are two troubling data points that jumped out at us.

Massachusetts has the most severe pensions crisis in the nation, and now it could get even worse: State legislators are debating dumping profitable pension investments.

America still has far more would-be lawyers than the legal profession can employ, but college grads seem to have taken note: fewer and fewer are applying to law school.

Anti-government protestors vow a “final push” to rid the country of Shinawatra influence, but the Shinawatra supporters are sending perhaps 100,000 marchers in a “show of force.” Bangkok is bracing for a confrontation.

India contains 13 of the world’s 20 smoggiest cities, and its capital’s air is, on average, more hazardous than any other city’s in the world. Indian officials are disputing the specifics, but it’s clear that India, like China, has a massive pollution problem to contend with.