Afghan news outlets mostly snuffed out

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Two years after the 2021 Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, independent journalism there has been all but completely snuffed out. Some news outlets continue to report on Afghanistan, but from outside the country. We hear from one Afghan newspaper editor, now working out of Washington, DC. Plus, the South Korean thriller “Parasite” was the first non-English language film to win best picture in 2020. But there’s another film from South Korea that’s been on the radar of international movie buffs for two decades. Now, “Oldboy” is getting a remake. And in Colombia’s capital city Bogota, a guerrilla campaign of vigilantes armed with spray paint cans are calling attention to crumbling urban infrastructure.

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