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Human Trafficking Depends On Corruption At Every Step

In 2011, a trafficker in Chile was convicted for recruiting economically vulnerable Peruvian citizens and arranging for them to be brought into the country – destined to become victims of sexual exploitation
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Trump’s Deterrent Factor and ASEAN’s Limited Hand in Thailand-Cambodia Discord

The Thailand-Cambodia conflict transcends the current ASEAN mechanism and capacity alone to deter or manage, seeing how its historical, contextual and nationalistic multi-factorial setting has shaped the spectrum of the conflict that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) alone is not able to fully resolve
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Turkey: Sweeping Arrests, Torture, Censorship

On March 19, just days before the March 23 primaries of Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu -- the CHP's leading candidate who was thought by many possibly to win the next presidential election against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- was arrested on contested charges of "corruption and terrorism."
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Investigate CrowdStrike Outage: Compensation Issues Must Be Addressed

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: The recent global IT outage, reportedly caused by a single antivirus update by antivirus firm CrowdStrike for Microsoft’s Windows OS, has wreaked havoc on businesses, governments, and the public worldwide, with losses estimated in the billions.
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Zaluzhny Firing Not Even A Band-Aid As Ukraine Strategy Bleeds Out

WASHINGTON, US: President Volodymyr Zelensky’s dismissal of the Ukrainian army chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, is a colossal political gamble for Zelensky and seems to indicate an increasing mood of desperation in Kyiv. 
 
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Philippine Court Comes Down Hard On Child-Abusing Mom

HONGKONG, SAR: A court in the Philippines has sentenced a 32-year-old mother to four life terms in prison for exploiting her six-year-old son and one-year-old girl for profit in one of the strongest penalties against online sexual abuse of children.
 
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