By Urvashi Bundel This weeks marks the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of Syria’s civil war. Since March 2011, so much has been swept away including respect for basic human rights. Now the world needs to work on restoring respect for those rights around the...
There are walls, fences, trenches and berms. In Iraq, Israel, Morocco, China and elsewhere. They are admissions of the breakdown of diplomacy and destined to fail. An Iraqi street vendor stands beside a concrete wall in Baghdad, 11 February 2016(EPA/Ali Abbas)...
This is the third article that Tunisian journalist Hafawa Rebhi has written for News-Decoder. Previously she wrote on Syrian television and economic development in Africa. By Hafawa Rebhi At the start of this academic year, an eight-year-old Tunisian boy named...
Whatever his takeover of the Republican party says about U.S. politics, Donald Trump is capitalizing on anxiety over changes in the global economy. We asked News-Decoder correspondents for their thoughts on Donald Trump’s campaign to become U.S. president. Last...
India and South Africa are thousands of miles apart but share a struggle against discrimination and inequity. Mahatma Gandhi spent his formative years in South Africa, where he forged his identity as a political activist before returning to his native India. Nolwazi...
Strange hair, billions in fortune and a magical ability to climb the polls despite statements that would sink other politicians. Long before Donald Trump terrified the U.S. establishment, Silvio Berlusconi was doing it in Italy. Silvio Berlusconi, Rome, 20 January...
The United States and Russia have brokered a truce in Syria in hopes of resuming United Nations-backed peace talks on March 9. Today News-Decoder correspondent Rashad Mammadov looks at what Russia hopes to gain in the five-year-old conflict. By Rashad Mammadov Once...
This is the latest article by a student from one of 11 academic institutions participating in News-Decoder’s pilot program. By Greg Venizelos As the United States ponders military intervention in Libya, it should reflect on how previous actions brought that...
Latin American demagogues such as Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez have made careers with invective and outlandish accusations. Have they met their match in Donald Trump? We asked News-Decoder correspondents, who have lived all over the world and observed many leaders,...
By Marilyn Smith The price of oil has plunged to its lowest level in over a decade. The cost of natural gas is down 50% in the past year. Energy is suddenly cheap and it has never been easier to heat your home, right? Not quite. Despite the drop in global oil...