As turmoil sweeps across Eurasia, don’t forget Egypt. Its politics are in turmoil, its economy is sickly, and no one seems to want to accept responsibility for fixing these problems.

China’s restive Xinjiang province has long been a place of ethnic tension and separatist sentiment. Now, there’s been a vicious terror attack on bystanders in a busy train station in the city of Kunming, and authorities are saying terrorists from Xinjiang are responsible. Kunming is hundreds of miles away from Xinjiang. Is the remote province’s unrest moving eastward?

Europe’s industrial titans are decrying the continent’s green-over-growth energy policies. By choosing to see cheap energy and a healthy environment as mutually exclusive goals, Europe is hamstringing its own economic recovery and doing nothing for the planet.

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A swastika and hateful messages toward Koreans have been showing up on buildings across Tokyo—signs of the nationalistic turn of Japanese society and politics.

Ukraine’s reliance on Russian gas gives Putin a powerful weapon against Kiev. Gazprom is already hinting that prices will rise next month. And if recent history is any guide, Putin could turn off the taps entirely.

Beijing gets most of the bad press for its toxic smog problem, but New Delhi’s air was, on average, twice as polluted as the Chinese capital’s last year, according to a new report.

With news from Ukraine coming in at a rapid clip, it can get hard to keep track of how it all fits together. Here’s a map to help you make sense of things.

Good afternoon, TAI readers! We trust you’re settling in to March nicely. As you enjoy the end of your weekend, take the time to look back on some of the important stories you may have missed over the past week.

The recent pause in global warming took many by surprise—a result of a failure to communicate the vagaries of climate science. Greens oversimplify this problem to their detriment.