Last month dozens of foreign policy experts in the U.S. Republican Party issued a letter denouncing Donald Trump’s worldview and vowing to oppose his presidential candidacy. Coming from officials who had served under Republican presidents and who normally would...
One of the biggest surprises in this year’s most surprising U.S. presidential election campaign has been the appeal of Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s rival to become the Democratic Party candidate. In theory, Sanders has no hope of winning the nomination of a party...
By Colin McIntyre A 40-year jail sentence for genocide handed down to former Bosnian leader Radovan Karadžić last month draws a line under one of Europe’s darkest periods since the end of World War Two. The case also brought into sharp focus the thorny issue of...
It’s quintessentially English. But Americans are about to see a jazzed-up version of cricket, and TV companies are rubbing their hands. Carlos Braithwaite of the West Indies hits a “six” — cricket’s equivalent to a home run in baseball — and helps his team...
By Rashad Mammadov Forgotten by most outsiders for the past 22 years, a frozen conflict between two former Soviet states, Azerbaijan and Armenia, flared up unexpectedly last week in the volatile Caucasus. At least 30 military and several civilians lost their lives and...
China is not necessarily a threat to the rest of the world and has done more to reduce poverty within its borders than any country in history. China is not necessarily a threat to the rest of the world and has done more to reduce poverty within its borders than any...
Sruthi Gottipati is a News-Decoder ambassador and last year was featured in a snapshot profile. This article was originally published on The Development Set on Medium. By Sruthi Gottipati A group of villagers marched into their local health clinic in central Uganda...
By Jessica Moody The United Nations was created to promote peace and security, yet increased allegations of sexual abuses by its personnel and peacekeepers beg the question of whether the organization is up to the task. The UN reported in February that the number of...
Our thoughts are with the victims of today’s attacks in Brussels and with their families and friends. Below is an article, updated with today’s events, that we published last November after terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Although much...
By Alistair Lyon A year ago, Saudi Arabia and its allies unleashed a Western-backed military intervention in Yemen’s civil war. It has gone horribly, and predictably, wrong. Twelve months of bombing, backed by a naval blockade and some ground troops, have failed...