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Ships transport around 80% of the world’s cargo. From your food, to your car to your phone, chances are it... more
For over 40 years, the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey, fighting for Kurdish... more
When the first cases of COVID-19 began to spread around the world in early 2020, people in Iquitos, a remote... more
One hundred years ago, a paper was published in the journal Nature that would radically shift our understandings of the... more
Every day that he was locked up in a scam compound in Southeast Asia, George thought about how to get... more
A few weeks after Ben Yeo travelled to Cambodia for what he thought was a job in a casino, he... more
Scam factories is a special three-part series taking you inside Southeast Asia's brutal fraud compounds. Hundreds of thousands of people... more
As the Trump administration ratchets up its threat to slap tariffs on allies and economic rivals alike, the world is... more
Since Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter in 2022, many users have looked for alternatives, fuelling a wave of online migration... more
As Germany heads towards elections on February 23, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) is polling in second place on... more