We last saw Anusheh Naveed Ashraf of Pakistan in a video alongside News-Decoder’s most senior supporter. Now Anusheh has received some very good news that deserves to be shared — she has won a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States. Anusheh’s success is a...
By Jane Macartney China’s ruling Communist Party has just announced it will put on trial its most senior official to be arrested for corruption since the Party swept to power more than 65 years ago. It is a part of a campaign by Party chief and President Xi Jinping to...
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 considered to be some swell dudes in the eyes of Americans. Venezuelan and American leaders have been squabbling long enough...
By Girish Gupta When Hugo Chávez came to power in Venezuela in 1999, U.S. Ambassador to Caracas John Maisto said the U.S. government should watch what Chávez did, not listen to what he said. Chávez’s rhetoric was indeed fiery. Seven years after coming to power, he...
By Randall Mikkelsen U.S. Republicans and Democrats have cooperated on a couple of occasions since Republicans assumed control of both houses of Congress in January. But these rare examples are unlikely to signal any breakthrough in the Washington stalemate that has...