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)...
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...
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 —...
Mindy Tan visited North Korea recently. The Singapore-based photographer has given us glimpses of life in one of the world’s most secretive countries. A street in Pyongyang Free, state-owned public housing A street in Pyongyang Bus stop in Pyongyang at rush hour...
By Paul Radford For a number of years in the 1990s, I covered the activities of FIFA for Reuters and interviewed the then general secretary Sepp Blatter on a number of occasions. From a journalist’s point of view, he was an excellent interviewee, always affable and...
The first time I met John Nash I was overwhelmed — and amused. The math genius was both eccentric and human. Nobel Prize Laureate John Nash at a photo exhibition in Germany in May 2009. (Joerg Carstensen/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images) The first time I met John Nash I...
When Jimmy Carter ran for U.S. President, he capitalized on the fact he was little-known, adopting the campaign slogan, “Jimmy Who?” When Jimmy Carter ran for President of the United States 39 years ago, he capitalized on the fact that he was a little-known former...
Death and violence scarred a meeting of world leaders in Genoa, Italy in 2001, marking the height of two decades of protests against globalization. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) By Nelson Graves Death and violence scarred a meeting of world leaders in 2001 that marked the...
By John Rogers Three Al-Jazeera journalists sent down for long jail terms in Egypt, a sentence widely seen in the West as intended as a warning to others; journalists targeted for kidnapping; journalists killed or injured. All in the pursuit of the news in difficult...