It’s quintessentially English. But Americans are about to see a jazzed-up version of cricket, and TV companies are rubbing their hands. Carlos Braithwaite of the West Indies hits a “six” — cricket’s equivalent to a home run in baseball — and helps his team...
By Rashad Mammadov Forgotten by most outsiders for the past 22 years, a frozen conflict between two former Soviet states, Azerbaijan and Armenia, flared up unexpectedly last week in the volatile Caucasus. At least 30 military and several civilians lost their lives and...
China is not necessarily a threat to the rest of the world and has done more to reduce poverty within its borders than any country in history. China is not necessarily a threat to the rest of the world and has done more to reduce poverty within its borders than any...
Sruthi Gottipati is a News-Decoder ambassador and last year was featured in a snapshot profile. This article was originally published on The Development Set on Medium. By Sruthi Gottipati A group of villagers marched into their local health clinic in central Uganda...
By Jessica Moody The United Nations was created to promote peace and security, yet increased allegations of sexual abuses by its personnel and peacekeepers beg the question of whether the organization is up to the task. The UN reported in February that the number of...
Our thoughts are with the victims of today’s attacks in Brussels and with their families and friends. Below is an article, updated with today’s events, that we published last November after terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Although much...
By Alistair Lyon A year ago, Saudi Arabia and its allies unleashed a Western-backed military intervention in Yemen’s civil war. It has gone horribly, and predictably, wrong. Twelve months of bombing, backed by a naval blockade and some ground troops, have failed...
By Urvashi Bundel This weeks marks the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of Syria’s civil war. Since March 2011, so much has been swept away including respect for basic human rights. Now the world needs to work on restoring respect for those rights around the...
There are walls, fences, trenches and berms. In Iraq, Israel, Morocco, China and elsewhere. They are admissions of the breakdown of diplomacy and destined to fail. An Iraqi street vendor stands beside a concrete wall in Baghdad, 11 February 2016(EPA/Ali Abbas)...
This is the third article that Tunisian journalist Hafawa Rebhi has written for News-Decoder. Previously she wrote on Syrian television and economic development in Africa. By Hafawa Rebhi At the start of this academic year, an eight-year-old Tunisian boy named...