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An Iranian security force officer stands guard next to a huge billboard of Iran's newly nominated supreme leader Ayatollah Mojataba Khamenei during Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally in Tehran on March 13, 2026. (Photo by AFP)
March 24, 2026, 9:33 am
Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool
Cybersurveillance emerges as key weapon of war after Israel used Tehran’s street cameras to assassinate Khamenei, though regime’s leaders were long aware of potential threat
By Dake Kang and SAM MEDNICK
Chinese police officers block off access to a site where protesters had gathered in Shanghai on November 27, 2022. (AP Photo)
November 27, 2022, 8:53 pm
China crowds angered by COVID lockdowns call for leader Xi to step down
Police forcibly clear demonstrators who chant against powerful president in financial capital Shanghai; street protests erupt in several cities and reported at 50 universities
By Dake Kang and HUIZHONG WU
Residents mourn for the victims of a recent deadly fire at a residential building in Urumqi city in Shanghai, China Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (Chinatopix Via AP)
November 27, 2022, 5:52 am
‘Open up’: Anger against COVID lockdowns erupts across China, fueled by deadly fire
Protests held in Shanghai and elsewhere after demonstrations in western Xinjiang region against draconian measures in place for months, blamed for making Urumqi blaze worse
By HUIZHONG WU and Dake Kang
A resident staying at a temporary hospital converted from the National Exhibition and Convention Center to quarantine COVID-positive people squats near a propaganda poster calling for action against the pandemic in Shanghai, China on April 18, 2022.(Chinatopix via AP)
April 22, 2022, 11:51 pm
Surprisingly low Shanghai COVID death toll spurs questions of government cover-up
City of 25 million only reports 25 coronavirus deaths despite major outbreak in recent months; Chinese authorities use less transparent, inconsistent methods of tallying statistics
By HUIZHONG WU and Dake Kang
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, debris is seen at the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 22, 2022. (Zhou Hua/Xinhua via AP)
March 22, 2022, 9:19 am
No survivors found in crash of China Eastern plane carrying 132 people
Chinese president calls for an ‘all-out’ rescue operation, and an investigation into the crash, as airline grounds all 100-plus 737-800s in its fleet
By Dake Kang
Shanghai-based testing kit company GeneoDx presents a booth at a trade fair in Nanchang in eastern China's Jiangxi province on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
December 3, 2020, 1:16 pm
China disease center’s backdoor deal with testing firms fueled pandemic’s spread
Beijing only approved tests made by 3 companies that officials had personal ties with; early kits were faulty and scarce, causing backlog and aiding virus to circulate unchecked
By Dake Kang
Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, March 10, 2020. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)
April 25, 2020, 12:39 am
China’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplomats show teeth in defending virus response
Disputing accusations it didn’t act quickly enough to stem outbreak and hid its scope, Xi Jinping’s government has tossed predecessor’s subdued approach to international diplomacy
By Dake Kang
Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region, on November 4, 2017. (AP/Ng Han Guan, File)
February 17, 2020, 11:38 pm
‘Infected’: Data shows how China criminalized Muslim faith
Info offers fullest view yet into how Beijing decided who to incarcerate in detention camps as part of mass crackdown
By Dake Kang
Workers spray antiseptic solution on the arrival lobby amid rising public concerns over the possible spread of a new coronavirus at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, January 21, 2020. (Suh Myung-geon/Yonhap via AP)
January 21, 2020, 6:31 pm
Anxiety rises in China and overseas as virus kills six, infects nearly 300
Face masks sell out, officer perform temperature checks in attempt to contain outbreak of new coronavirus, which officials say is less lethal than SARS
By EMILY WANG, Dake Kang and Yanan WANG
Mahek Liaqat, a Pakistani Christian girl lured into a marriage with a Chinese national, shows her marriage certificate in Gujranwala, Pakistan, April 14, 2019. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
May 7, 2019, 10:54 am
Pakistani Christian girls targeted by Chinese as brides
Human trafficking, abuse cited as impoverished Christian families offered cash to marry off their daughters, some as young as 13
By KATHY GANNON and Dake Kang
In this August 20, 2018, photo, Meripet, 29, prays at her home in Istanbul, Turkey. Meripet came to Turkey in February 2017 to visit her sick father, leaving four children behind. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
September 25, 2018, 12:09 pm
China removes children from families in effort to subdue Muslim minority
Kids are systematically taken from ethnic Uighur and sent to orphanages or boarding schools in what the locals say is an attempt to erase their culture, language
By Yanan WANG and Dake Kang
A damaged Home Depot truck remains on the scene Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, after the driver mowed down people on a riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center on Tuesday in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
November 1, 2017, 9:01 pm
NYPD: Truck attack suspect ‘did this in the name of ISIS’
Sayfullo Saipov followed terror group’s online instructions ‘almost exactly to a T,’ left Arabic notes at scene
By Colleen Long and Dake Kang
In this Saturday, August 12, 2017 photo, James Alex Fields Jr., second from left, holds a black shield in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist rally took place. Fields was later charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he plowed a car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally. (Alan Goffinski via AP)
August 14, 2017, 6:22 am
Charlottesville car-ramming suspect idolized Hitler, Nazism, ex-teacher says
A high school teacher of James Alex Fields Jr., held on murder charges, claims he had keen interest in Nazi Germany, white supremacy
By Dake Kang and Dan Sewell
American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2016. (AP/Jon Chol Jin)
June 16, 2017, 8:33 am
Doctors say US student freed by North Korea has severe brain damage
Otto Warmbier is in a state of ‘unresponsive wakefulness’ and shows ‘no signs of understanding’ or ‘awareness of surroundings’
By Dake Kang and Dan Sewell
A swastika was painted on the trash can of Esther Cohen-Eskin in Haverton, Philadelphia August 19, 2016. (CBS3)
August 27, 2016, 3:08 am
Town rallies around Jewish family hit by swastika graffiti
After her trash can was spray-painted with Nazi symbol, Esther Cohen-Eskin painted over it with a flower, starting a world movement
By Dake Kang
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