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by News Decoder | 14 Jun 2018 | Europe
By Colin McIntyre Plans to expand the European Union to include the volatile Western Balkans appear to be going ahead after an agreement ending a 27-year dispute over a name was signed by Greece and Macedonia. The agreement to rename the country the Republic of...
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by News Decoder | 13 Jan 2016 | Europe, Middle East, Refugees
By Monika Pronczuk The tide of refugees fleeing to Europe from wars in the Middle East and elsewhere has sparked strong reactions, much of it hostile. But for some of us, it has been a life-changing, positive experience. It all started in October, when together with...
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by Pauline Bock | 8 Nov 2015 | Americas, Decoders, Europe, Middle East
This article is part of a News-Decoder series of “decoders” that explain crucial background to big issues. For more decoders, click here. By Pauline Bock A military alliance that grew out of the Cold War might seem irrelevant a quarter of a century after...
by News Decoder | 18 Sep 2015 | Africa, Asia, Europe, Human Rights, Middle East, Refugees, Syria
By Colin McIntyre At a time when the European Union’s borders are under siege from thousands of refugees and immigrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty, the prospect of enlarging the 28-nation bloc would seem a distant dream. Yet negotiations continue with a view...
by News Decoder | 20 Jul 2015 | Europe, Eyewitness
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...
