Chelsea: “Our world has become interconnected”
Name: Chelsea Boorman Birth place: Miami, Florida Age: 23 Occupation: Graduate student at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced...
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By Pauline Bock I’m what they call a “millennial.” I am also a journalist. So of course I read it on Twitter first. “Shootings in Paris.” I...
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No quick victory over ISIS in Syria, Iraq
Can increased air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition and a few hundred special forces bring the Islamic State into submission in Syria and Iraq? Air...
Read MoreA new campaign of global jihad?
By Alistair Lyon Islamic State has claimed the coordinated attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers on bars, restaurants and a concert hall that killed...
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What to make of Russia’s involvement in Syria
Russia has launched air strikes in Syria, raising the stakes in its Arab ally’s fight against rebels. Four News-Decoder correspondents explain...
Read MoreWhy Syria is so important
Syria is in its 10th year of gruesome armed conflict — a war that has important implications for the region and increasingly for global...
Read MoreFixing the world: Cooperation, not bluster
By Nelson Graves Here at News-Decoder we take stock on Fridays and look ahead to the next week’s news themes. It’s a way of making sense...
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Economic migrants versus refugees
The world is grappling with its biggest migrant crisis since World War Two. To understand, it’s important to distinguish between refugees and...
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Decoding the 2016 U.S. presidential election
This is the second in a series of articles on the U.S. presidential election. To read about the election process, click here. For more...
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The world’s biggest worry? Climate change — mostly
By Nelson Graves Climate change is considered the biggest global threat by much of the world, but the Islamic militant group ISIS is the top worry...
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Syria: Are Kurdish rebels Turkey’s target?
By Harvey Morris In a dramatic turnabout, Turkey has launched air strikes against Islamic State (IS) forces that hold territory in neighboring Syria...
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Newsplanner: Connecting the dots in the news
By Pauline Bock & Jasmine Horsey One of our roles as assistant editors at News-Decoder is to consider emerging themes around the world, to...
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Making sense of the 2003 U.S. occupation of Iraq
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...
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The successes of Singapore’s founding father
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...
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How the world views the United States and Obama
By Nelson Graves The Unites States enjoys broad global support for its military efforts against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, but its...
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Bitter fruits of a split in Islam
By Jonathan Lyons Instability across the heart of the Muslim world underscores an undeniable fact of modern life: religion matters as much today as...
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Why care about what’s happening in Turkey?
“Caught in a bad romance…” Lady Gaga’s hit song fits the strained relationship between Europe and Turkey. “Caught in a bad romance…”Lady Gaga’s...
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Saudi bombs cannot pacify Yemen
By Alistair Lyon Yemen’s green terraced mountains, exuberant architecture and proud heritage of music, poetry and Islamic learning, not to mention...
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Israel’s Netanyahu and a broken taboo
By Harvey Morris The golden rule of Israeli politics has always been to avoid any public spat with the Americans. The theory was that the electorate...
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By Rae Ellen Bichell In the 1970s, 52 Americans were held hostage for over a year in Iran. Once upon a time, Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro were...
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