Newsletter Archive

India says it has intelligence linking Rohingya refugees and Pakistan-backed militants inside India. The country plans to deport about 40,000 refugees who entered the country in the past five years, at a time when tens of thousands are fleeing alleged persecution in Myanmar.

More than 100 of Nigeria’s “Chibok girls,” who were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from a school in 2014, are starting classes at the American University of Nigeria, months after they were finally released.

The U.S. and Iran are on the same side of at least one issue in the Middle East: Both countries hope Iraqi Kurdistan doesn’t hold a referendum on independence from Iraq. But it’s looking more and more like the Kurds will hold the vote, which many fear could lead to a new spiral of violence even before Iraq has rid itself of Islamic State.

Carl Tanner earned a degree in music, but after college decided driving a truck suited him better than singing.  But one day, while belting out an aria from “Tosca” while sitting in a traffic jam, the driver of another car who heard him singing told Tanner he’d missed his calling.

The collapse of a prominent Native American media network has some Native American groups pondering how to keep American Indian communities informed and counter stereotypes and misinformation sometimes seen in the mainstream press.

Following the closing of independent media outlets and the arrest of Cambodia’s opposition leader, officials in Phnom Penh are training their verbal fire on the U.S., adding to mounting anxiety in the Cambodian capital among government critics and media workers.