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Prince Andrew, Duke of York, has been served with a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, according to New York federal court records. Andrew is being sued in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York by Virginia Giuffre, 38, who alleges the duke sexually abused

Courtesy Farhad Wajdi Farhad Wajdi Just a year ago, Farhad Wajdi was in Kabul with his parents and siblings, running a nonprofit that set up local women with street food carts. They were attracting international media headlines and winning support from US-based NGOs and the Afghan government. But now, the Taliban’s return to power in

JACMEL, Haiti — One evening last November, Jui opened Google Translate on her iPad and began drafting her first-ever message to her father. “Hello, Dad,” she typed in Creole, the words appearing in Spanish on the right side of the screen. “I’m the daughter you abandoned.” The 9-year-old told the United Nations peacekeeper from Uruguay

This week, we’ve been following the continued flight of Afghans from their country. We spoke with some of the Afghan interpreters, support staffers, and informal allies who have been left scrambling for visas after the Taliban reclaimed power. Meanwhile, Kiana Hayeri photographed young Afghans as she asked what will become of the country’s post-9/11 generation

The medicine truck was parked in front of the hospital when the nurse arrived for work on that Sunday, Aug. 15, and as she approached the building, she saw the driver standing beside the vehicle, frantically waving at her and the other nurses to turn back. “He was screaming, ‘all the women must leave, sister

The Notting Hill Carnival, a Caribbean celebration in London, has been held in late August every year since the 1960s. Before the pandemic, it often attracted over 2 million people to the streets of London to celebrate West Indian culture. The first carnival in the UK is credited to Trinidadian journalist and activist Claudia Jones,

Two explosions outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday left a scene of carnage and destruction, with at least 13 US service members and an unknown number of Afghan civilians killed. The attacks were believed to have been carried out by ISIS suicide bombers and gunmen, US officials said, adding that

Law enforcement agencies and government organizations from 24 countries outside the United States used a controversial facial recognition technology called Clearview AI, according to internal company data reviewed by BuzzFeed News. That data, which runs up until February 2020, shows that police departments, prosecutors’ offices, universities, and interior ministries from around the world ran nearly

As the Taliban swept to power last week, Afghans working for the United Nations watched as many of their foreign colleagues got on planes to leave the country. But their own increasingly desperate pleas for help getting out — or at least for somewhere safe to stay if the Taliban targets them for their work

This week, we watched in horror as Kabul fell to the Taliban following the withdrawal of US troops. Thousands of Afghans crowded the airport, desperate to leave the country. We also kept our eyes trained on Haiti, where people are dealing with back-to-back natural disasters only weeks after their president was assassinated. It’s been a

Shekib Rahmani / AP Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane along the perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 16, 2021. Thao-Nguyen Le hasn’t been able to stop thinking about Afghanistan. For Le, whose father was imprisoned by the communist government of Vietnam after the US

Nilofar Ayoubi Nilofar Ayoubi helped shuttle her employees home after the Taliban captured Kabul. By Wednesday, Nilofar Ayoubi knew her name was on the Taliban’s list. She had learned the news from a friend — the same friend who on Sunday had told her that the Taliban were going door-to-door across neighborhoods trying to find

BuzzFeedNews / Getty Images For more than 30 years, Manjul, who goes by his first name only, has skewered leaders from every Indian government in acerbic political cartoons splashed across the country’s biggest news publications and, in recent years, on social media. But until June, no one had ever threatened the titan of editorial cartooning.

Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Grace battered the island of Haiti on Tuesday, days after a deadly earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation. Saturday’s magnitude 7.2 tremor killed more than 1,000 people and left tens of thousands of others without homes. Days after the quake, bodies still lie in the streets as officials grapple with the

Taliban recaptured the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday after rapidly retaking much of the country following the departure of the nation’s president and US forces. The Taliban released a statement on Twitter saying that they had entered the city to provide security and that foreign nationals would not face any danger. The US and other

In April, a herd of 15 elephants in China meandered more than 800 miles from the city of Pu’er to the city of Kunming in June, gaining legions of fans along the way. The herd, which officials said was finally reaching a protected habitat in southwest China’s Yunnan province, had been migrating in search of