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After months of mounting reports of workers from across Asia being trafficked into Chinese cybercrime rings operating in Cambodia, the government finally conceded last week that a more aggressive approach to the problem was in order. Interior Minister Sar Kheng said on August 22 that officials were being deployed across the country...
Massive rainfall and flooding have caused one of Pakistan’s worst humanitarian crises in recent memory. Political leaders and experts alike have labeled the disaster a “climate catastrophe,” and environmental and human rights advocates concur. Fortunately, the international community is extending...
It’s been said that history does not repeat but it does rhyme. A generation after seizing power for the first time in an Afghanistan destroyed by war, the Taliban returned to Kabul last August after enduring another long conflict with foreign invaders. As ever, the Taliban mystify observers who...
The death of Mikhail Gorbachev is widely being mourned as the loss of a champion of freedom who helped end the Cold War. But the legacy of the last leader of the Soviet Union is very different at home, where many view him as the man responsible for the USSR’s collapse. His passing received...
Coming up on Africa News Tonight: Authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region report a fresh airstrike on Mekelle that hit a hospital and a center for displaced people, however the Horn of Africa nations federal government said fighting has spread to the West of Tigray, near the border with Sudan...
A year ago today, Taliban fighters celebrated joyously as the last American troops were boarding their flights back home. "The last American soldier left Kabul airport at 9pm Afghan time and our country gained full independence, Alhamdulillah Walmana," Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid...
The weight of Perry Blackburn's reality is most apparent when his voice cracks and as he rubs his eyes from exhaustion. It's not uncommon for both to happen when the former Green Beret is talking about Afghanistan or its people. "I feel like our government betrayed us," the Tampa, Florida, resident told...
A year after the last U.S. troops left Kabul, there appears to be little consensus on whether the world, and the West in particular, is any safer from the terrorist groups that call Afghanistan home. One of the most polarizing developments in the debate came on July 31 of this year, when a...
The international Monetary Fund's (IMF) executive board has approved the revival of Pakistan's Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme, said the country's Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, adding that after this, the country will receive the 7th and 8th tranche of USD 1.17 billion. "Alhamdolillah the IMF Board has...
While the United States seeks to outcompete China in Africa, the Asian superpower just made it more difficult by announcing that it would cancel some interest-free loans to 17 African countries. Early this month, the US sent delegations across Africa. The most high-powered one was led by U.S. Secretary...