Greece’s debt woes bring back memories to Tiziana Barghini, who says this small country can teach us a lot. A woman sells bread next to posters reading ”NO to EU, IMF, ECB proposal” in Thessaloniki, 1 July 2015. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) Greece’s...
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...
Street celebrations following a nuclear deal in Tehran, Iran, 14 July 2015. Iran is emerging from its reputation as a Middle East pariah. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) By Jonathan Lyons The geopolitical logic in support of the Iran arms deal is certainly compelling,...
Years after Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, Bosnia is split by ethnic divisions and questions persist about how to prevent such tragedies. By Colin McIntyre The massacre of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims on European soil 20 years ago continues to...
By Alan Wheatley There are many reasons to be worried about the course of China’s economy over the next year or two. The roller-coaster ride of the stock market is not one of them. But the longer-term implications of the recent 30% slide in Shanghai share prices – or,...
Mainland China has 2 stock markets: Shanghai and Shenzhen. Hong Kong has an independent stock exchange that is not directly linked to the crisis. Chinese stock prices rose some 150% between July 2014 and June 2015, peaking on June 12. Chinese authorities reacted by...
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 —...
Greece is a long way from Indonesia of 1997, but the European nation could learn from Asia’s own crisis. Former International Monetary Fund Managing (IMF) Director Michel Camdessus looks on as then Indonesian President Suharto signs an IMF deal in Jakarta, 15...
The Charleston massacre prompted shock and an emotional statement from U.S. President Obama — but guns are deeply rooted in American history. A gun owner testifying at a hearing on proposed new gun laws in St. Paul, Minnesota, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/The St....
By Alan Wheatley The odds that Greece will quit the euro zone have shortened after Sunday’s decisive referendum. Trust between Greece and Germany, the leader of Europe’s creditors, is shattered. But ‘Grexit’ is not inevitable. The long shadow of history will help...