The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi was no aberration. A Vanity Fair investigation reveals how Saudi Arabia attempts to abduct, repatriate—and sometimes murder...
Last September, two Cuban government handlers took me to a neuroscience-research institute in Havana to meet with Mitchell Joseph Valdés-Sosa, a jovial scientis...
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — On a Monday afternoon in June 2017, Renee Holland was draped in an American flag at Philadelphia International Airport, waiting for a soldier she had befriended on Facebook. The married 56-year-old had driven two hours from Delawa...
A New York Times investigation into the Boeing 737 Max crisis—involving two crashes that killed a cumulative 346 people and the continued grounding of the entir...
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Ransomware once seemed to be on the decline, but it's now gained a new lease of life -- and additional notoriety -- after crooks identified a lucrative new set of targets for their file-encrypting malware....
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The coast of West Africa is one of the world's most notorious areas for piracy and kidnapping. And attacks in the area continue to rise year-on-year. To try to ...
Hundreds of thousands of students travel abroad each year to study, and learn about other countries and cultures, but while they may prepare by fine-tuning cour...
QAIM, Iraq — Islamic State militants who escaped the defeat of their caliphate in Syria earlier this year have been slipping across the border into Iraq, bolstering a low-level insurgency the group is now waging across the central and northern part o...
The largest city in southern Iraq may be rich in oil but Basra’s government leaders are accused of being poor at providing the population with clean drinking wa...
The theme of the 2019 Aid Worker Security Report is sexual violence. As we reviewed the data on sexual assault, I started relating the figures to my experience ...
Nearly 300 people, most of them Dutch nationals, were killed when a civilian flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over Ukrainian airspace in 2014....
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Theft of anti-malarial drugs is a huge problem in Uganda, causing a shortage of medication that is sorely needed to treat the disease. Counterfeit drugs often f...
It appeared to be a done deal. Nigeria's government under President Muhammadu Buhari had announced that they would be introducing the so-called Ruga settlements...
If you’ve been on a flight, you’ve heard a flight attendant say that you should “please” keep your seatbelt fastened when you’re in your seat....
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LONDON (Reuters) - Shipping companies sailing through the Middle East Gulf are being urged to avoid having private armed security guards onboard as the risk of ...
On June 28, armed separatists beat and kidnapped John Fru Ndi, a well-known Cameroonian politician considered by some as one of the country’s old guard of polit...
For the past five years, little was heard of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast Asian offshoot of the international terror network al-Qaeda....
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Mt Everest, ancient and ungovernable, forever looming amongst the misty peaks of the Himalayas, certainly elicits a timeless allure. For many years, locals live...
Curtis Jenkins III, who had been missing since Sunday and is the grandson of Camden City Council President Curtis Jenkins Sr., was found dead Tuesday, county of...
The city of Hong Kong, home to 7.4 million people, has been in the spotlight for weeks because of teeming protests. Experts say the urban hub is still safe for tourists, and the U.S....
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The announcement came as we began to board. Last month, I was at Detroit’s Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Li...
