By Colin McIntyre A quarter century after the fall of the “Iron Curtain” and the Berlin Wall separating Communist East Europe from the West, new barriers are going up across the continent. In stark contrast to the old barriers erected by the Soviet bloc to keep its...
Demonstrators hold balloons portraying Italian premier Matteo Renzi with a long nose as Pinocchio, during a protest in Rome, 12 Dec 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) By Barry Moody As the Greek crisis reached its worrying climax, nobody watched with more anxiety...
James Clad served as a senior U.S. official in Iraq after Saddam Hussein fell. He draws lessons from the occupation in an interview. A U.S. soldier stands in a convoy as smokes billows from a truck destroyed in Najaf, Iraq, 2 April 2003. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)...
Greece’s debt woes bring back memories to Tiziana Barghini, who says this small country can teach us a lot. A woman sells bread next to posters reading ”NO to EU, IMF, ECB proposal” in Thessaloniki, 1 July 2015. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) Greece’s...
By Jasmine Horsey In the center of Bosnia’s capital Sarajevo, a permanent photo exhibition remembers Srebrenica. The photographs show coffins filling a large warehouse; forensic teams excavating mass graves; a child’s doll in the dust, throat slit. The images, in...
Street celebrations following a nuclear deal in Tehran, Iran, 14 July 2015. Iran is emerging from its reputation as a Middle East pariah. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) By Jonathan Lyons The geopolitical logic in support of the Iran arms deal is certainly compelling,...
Years after Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, Bosnia is split by ethnic divisions and questions persist about how to prevent such tragedies. By Colin McIntyre The massacre of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims on European soil 20 years ago continues to...
By Alan Wheatley There are many reasons to be worried about the course of China’s economy over the next year or two. The roller-coaster ride of the stock market is not one of them. But the longer-term implications of the recent 30% slide in Shanghai share prices – or,...
Mainland China has 2 stock markets: Shanghai and Shenzhen. Hong Kong has an independent stock exchange that is not directly linked to the crisis. Chinese stock prices rose some 150% between July 2014 and June 2015, peaking on June 12. Chinese authorities reacted by...
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, died in March. Founder of the island state, he was credited with setting the foundations for the island nation’s remarkable growth. Below, News-Decoder correspondent James Clad reflects on the statesman’s legacy —...