Music

Vagabon comes back home

Books

Ashley C. Ford is alright (don’t nobody worry about her)

A general view of Mes Aynak valley is seen some 25 miles southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2022. Buildings on top are offices of Chinese mining company MCC that won the contract to exploit the world's second-largest copper mine.

Afghanistan

A Chinese company strikes a deal with the Taliban to extract oil from Afghanistan

Security officials and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan

Violence

Suicide bomber kills 34, wounds 150 at mosque in NW Pakistan

In this June 19, 2017, file photo, a person types on a laptop keyboard in North Andover, Massachusetts. 

Cybersecurity

'Ransomware Diaries:' Going undercover with the leader of LockBit

Ukraine

Wagner mercenary group recruits Africans held in Russian prisons

White Sand beach on Boracay Island, in the Philippines. 

Business, Economics and Jobs

The return of Chinese tourists restores hope in the Philippines' tourism industry

Politics

India’s Rahul Gandhi supporters finish 5-month rally and march against increasingly nationalist state

Screenshot from Bahjat official lyric YouTube video "Hometown Smile."

Libyan pop star Bahjat beat the odds. Now he wants to popularize ‘A-pop.’

Teachers representing the observatory of knowledge, protest against budget cuts for public universities outside the Ministry of Education, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. 

Trust the process: Part I

A member of auction house staff poses for a picture with a 19-carat pink diamond at Christie's auction house, in London, Oct. 18, 2017. 

Belgium faces pressure to support sanctions on Russian diamonds

US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet smiles ahead of a meeting in Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. 

America’s top priority is to help Ukraine ‘defend itself’ as a sovereign nation, Blinken adviser says

Hanif Abdurraqib

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