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In the recent election, Hungarians proved that a strong-arm leader can be removed from power and that peaceful change is possible. A man waves a Hungarian flag as he celebrates the results of the Hungarian election in Budapest, 12 April 2026. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos) This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global news service.

In the professional world, International experience is more needed now than ever before. But global politics is making it difficult to study abroad. International students at a university center. (Illustration by News Decoder.) This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global news service. It is through articles like this that News Decoder strives to provide context to complex global events and issues and teach global awareness through the lens of journalism.

Long viewed through the lens of instability and internal crisis, the Islamic republic has emerged as a key mediator between the United States and Iran. White House photo of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Oval Office in September 2025. This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global news service.

Back in 2016, a slim majority of British citizens voted to exit the European Union. A decade later, “Brexit” has made a far bigger majority of people unhappy. The White Cliffs of Dover. (Photo by Carol Ann Peacock/Getty Images) Editor’s note: On 1 April 2026, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters his nation would work to repair the damage that Brexit had done in its relationship with Europe.

One of the strangest things about the modern world is how sure we are about places we’ve never been. We talk about countries we’ve never seen as if we understand them perfectly. We imagine how people live, what they fear, what they care about and whether their lives are “modern” or “traditional.” That certainty comes from the repetition of stories that we hear so often that they begin to feel like facts rather than interpretations. I carried that same certainty before I left my own country.

According to a recent report from the Reporters Lab at Duke University, there were 443 active fact-checking organizations 116 countries in 2025. The number of organizations is down two from the previous year. The report noted that the loss was due to the elimination of a program run by the social media giant Meta to work with fact checkers to keep dangerous falsehoods spreading on its Facebook and Instagram sites.

Editor’s note: On 1 April 2026, The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Trump v. Barbara, a case filed in opposition to an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the long standing legal precedent that anyone born in the United States who is not the son or daughter of a foreign diplomat stationed there is deemed a citizen of the United States.

When 14-year-old Moise decided to pick up a gun, it had nothing to do with ideology. It was about lunch. “They told us we would eat meat every day,” Moise said as he stared at his hands in a rehabilitation center on the outskirts of Goma in the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo. “At home, we ate once a day, sometimes not at all. In the bush, I carried a rifle, but I also carried shame. I became a man before I was even a child.” Moise is not his real name.

To Dayani Waas, Cuban salsa dancing was a key that could unlock a door. The music felt intuitive to her body. “Something about the sounds, instruments and songs made me come alive in ways other music hadn’t,” Waas said. A passionate Dominican dance teacher helped open that door for Waas, who lives in San Francisco. “The way she taught and shared the significance of the dance made me really grow to love it,” Waas said. A memorable teacher is also a community builder.

I went to an all-boys boarding school where certain things did not need explanation. On a quiet evening during prep time, if a group of boys gathered tightly around a laptop, heads close, bodies angled inward, smiles breaking out at the wrong moments, you already knew what was on the screen. No one asked. No one questioned it. Pornography had become so routine that it barely registered as something worth reacting to. It was not shocking. It was normal. Sometimes it went further than quiet watching.