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Naroop Singh Jhooti

Camp Bucca

Meet the US prison camp that helped give birth to ISIS

Global Scan

The US has long worried that its attempts to fight terrorism might actually spur more terrorism. We learn that a US detention camp in Iraq seems to have helped incubate ISIS. Meanwhile, it is Election Day in the US and an app lets Americans show their partisan choices as they shop. And an Egyptian bus driver found one heck of a way to fail a drug test. We have those stories and more in today’s Global Scan.

Hardeep Singh Kohli - Comedian, Writer, Presenter

Sikh photographers go beyond beards and turbans with their portraits

Culture
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