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Gunfire At Kabul Airport, Afghanistan Evacuations, COVID Surge : NPR
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Tens of thousands of people desperate to leave Kabul one week ago are now in safety. LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: A U.S.-led evacuation picked up speed over the weekend, but thousands…
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5 things to know about Miami Spice: 20 years later | FIU News
What was the inspiration behind Miami Spice? Haas: It was created during a terrible time in our nation and for our economy — 2001, right after 9/11. I had to do something to…
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Education Department discharges $1.1 billion million in debt for 115,000 ITT students
The Education Department (ED) is discharging $1.1 billion for 115,000 defrauded former students of the for-profit ITT Technical Institute (ITT) after a new review of existing regulations. ITT Technical Institute filed for bankruptcy…
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From pirates to ransomware: the secret economics of extortion
Aug 24th 2021 by Tom Standage In 74BC a band of pirates made a terrible mistake when they captured a ship off the coast of Asia Minor, now Turkey. They kidnapped one of…
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China extends control with online gaming crackdown
BEIJING (AP) — Hugely popular online games and celebrity culture in China are the latest targets in the ruling Communist Party’s campaign to encourage the public to fall in line with its vision…
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Vietnam: Telecommunication draft decree – Significant proposed amendments
In brief Earlier this month (7 August), the MIC released and called for public consultation on the draft decree amending and supplementing several provisions of Decree No. 25/2011/ND-CP guiding the implementation of the…
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Plan to plant a billion trees yet to take root three years after target set
In September 2018, the federal government unveiled a plan to radically expand Australia’s timber plantations by one billion trees over a decade. Today, less than 1 per cent of that goal has been…
