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U.S. designates American citizen Min Zin, held by China, as wrongfully detained

Washington — American citizen Min Zin has been legally designated by the U.S. State Department as wrongfully detained by China. “Secretary Rubio has formally designated U.S. citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained,” Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, said Thursday on X. “We call on Beijing to release all U.S. citizens…

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Afghanistan’s gold rush upends lives, landscapes in northeastern Badakhshan province – World

Dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed. In Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed. Thousands of miners are deployed across the Shiwa area, about…

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