by News Decoder | 26 Feb 2025 | Decoder Replay, History, Russia, Ukraine
On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we return to the question we asked our correspondents then. Why should the world care? People put flowers at a memorial for killed civilians during a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of the Russian...
by Bernd Debusmann | 24 Feb 2025 | History, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, United States
The U.S. real estate developer-in-chief sees profit potential in the beaches of Gaza. But the forced relocation of people is a crime against humanity. Palestinians displaced by the war between Israel and Hamas, take refuge in a tented settlement along the...
by David Schlesinger | 19 Feb 2025 | Decoder Replay, History, Media Literacy, Politics
A Chinese AI program negates the Tianenmen Square uprising. Google Calendar has struck out Black History Month. Why remember the scars of the past? Thousands of people at Victoria Park in Hong Kong 4 June 2019 attend a candlelight vigil for victims of the Chinese...
by Jeremy Solomons | 14 Feb 2025 | Africa, Decoders, History, Human Rights, Politics
African leaders work to contain intensified conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ensure it won’t spread to neighboring nations. M23 rebels release captured Romanian mercenaries, who were fighting alongside Democratic Republic...
by Daniel Warner | 13 Feb 2025 | Decoders, Government, History, Politics
Donald Trump is trying to cut off U.S. foreign aid. He might not understand that international good will is an investment that reaps all kinds of dividends. Dollar bills flow out of the United States. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced...
by Amina McCauley | 31 Jan 2025 | Americas, Europe, History, Politics
Long ignored by much of the world, Greenland finds itself stanned by Donald Trump. How do the 56,000 people who live there feel about this uninvited attention? Imagining two harp seals lying on melting ice by a “not” for sale sign in Tasililaq, East...
by Gene Gibbons | 16 Jan 2025 | Decoders, Government, History, Politics, United States
For a democracy to last, its leaders must willingly step down and the transition from one to the next must be smooth and bloodless. Then-President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump during the presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in...
by Tira Shubart | 9 Jan 2025 | History, Journalism, Politics, United States
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be buried today. Our correspondent remembers meeting the man who put personal integrity over politics and profits. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter in Wiesbaden, Germany 21 January 1981, greeting the U.S. hostages released...
by Andrea Knezevic | 30 Dec 2024 | Art, Culture, History
A teddy bear and child’s swing buried in rubble are some of the relics of war that remind us: soldiers aren’t the only casualties of conflict. Presents for children in Ukraine prepared by Bosnian children are seen at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo,...
by Barry Moody | 20 Dec 2024 | Africa, Decoders, History, Human Rights, Politics
An endless civil war in Sudan has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. But the world’s attention lies elsewhere. Sudanese refugees displaced by the conflict in Sudan gather to receive food staples from aid agencies at the Metche Camp in eastern...