by Pauline Bock | 27 Nov 2015 | Europe, Middle East, Syria
By Pauline Bock Fresh flowers, candles and messages of love mark the sites of the Paris attacks where shaken survivors and mourners pay their respects at makeshift shrines and wonder what the future will bring. “I think about it constantly,” said...
by Barry Moody | 27 Nov 2015 | Americas, Europe, Middle East, Syria, United States
By Barry Moody The horrific attacks in Paris have given new impetus to the struggle against extremism, but they also highlight the failures and limitations of Western policy. After the November 13 attacks, President François Hollande said France was at war with...
by News Decoder | 26 Nov 2015 | Africa, Americas, Europe, Sports
By John Mehaffey Evidence that the 2012 London Olympics were tainted by Russian doping and a French police investigation into the former president of the world athletics governing body on charges of accepting money to cover up positive drugs tests represent another...
by Rashad Mammadov | 25 Nov 2015 | Europe, Indiana University, Middle East, Syria, Ukraine
The shooting down of a Russian warplane by Turkey could mark a turning point in President Vladimir Putin’s military muscle-flexing. A demonstrator protesting against Russian military operations in Syria. Istanbul, 3 October 2015 (AP Photo) Airspace violations...
by Kate O'Rourke | 24 Nov 2015 | Americas, Europe, Human Rights, Indiana University, Middle East, Syria, United States
It seems that the U.S. media just recently stumbled upon the Syrian refugee crisis, more than four years after it began in March of 2011. I consider myself a well-informed college student. But it is worrying that young adults in the United States, myself included, are...
by Colin McIntyre | 24 Nov 2015 | Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Syria
By Colin McIntyre The deadly attacks in Paris appear to have hardened opposition in East and Central Europe to a plan to relocate thousands of migrants and refugees who have flooded into the continent this year. The plan for a quota system relocating some 120,000...
by News Decoder | 20 Nov 2015 | Climate decoders, Decoders, Environment, Europe
Despite attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to start at the end of the month will go ahead in the French capital. The government has announced that two major street demonstrations that activists had planned for...
by Paul Radford | 19 Nov 2015 | Europe, Middle East
By Paul Radford One minute, one hour, one day. Small units of time that make the difference between life and death when random acts of terror take place. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is what we dread. Being lucky is all we can hope for. One Hour The...
by News Decoder | 17 Nov 2015 | Europe, Personal Reflections, Terrorism
Three News-Decoder followers offer their thoughts on the Paris attacks. Paris, 15 November 2015. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) (Below, three followers of News-Decoder—in Paris, New York and Concepción, Chile—offer their thoughts following attacks in Paris that...
by Elaine Monaghan | 17 Nov 2015 | Americas, Europe
“What if there is no pack? What if we don’t know what happened?” Elaine Monaghan reflects on the need for journalists on the front lines. In my life as a witness or reporter, three news events stand out: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the signing of...