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On 10th March 2020, photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol left his home to go to work. He never returned. The survivor of an alleged enforced disappearance, today Shafiqul Islam Kajol remains in jail on charges filed under Bangladesh’s heavily criticised Digital Security Act. This is his story, his family’s story and also the story of Bangladesh’s…… Read More

Fentanyl is a potent and highly addictive synthetic opioid, approved for use in the US in the 1960s. Today, Fentanyl is involved in more deaths in Americans under the age of 50 than any other cause of death, according to the country’s Drug Enforcement Agency. And now child opioid deaths are also on the rise.…… Read More

From a local accountant who tipped off a mob boss, to a national politician accused of being a Mafia fixer – in Italy, the lines between Masonry and Mafia are blurred. In The Business of Crime, VICE World News looks at different parts of the criminal economy, separating fact from myth. In this episode, we…… Read More

Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News A recent UN report revealed that one in eight men in rural Bangladesh admit to having committed rape. Although it is a crime punishable by death, there are no accurate government figures for rape in Bangladesh, largely due to social stigma and a failure by local authorities to investigate…… Read More

We chat to a young credit card scammer who has been ‘’deetsing’’ – buying account details online to purchase whatever he wants without the account holder’s knowledge or consent. Teenagers as young as 13 are learning how to commit online fraud at school and say they are targeting the rich. Some are using profits to…… Read More

There have been claims of Pakistan pushing drugs into the India’s border state of Punjab, as an act of alleged Narco-terrorism for decades. Once Punjab doubled down on drug trafficking in the state, its neighbour Himachal seemed to have become collateral damage. India’s northernmost state Himachal Pradesh is in the grips of a heroin crisis,…… Read More

In September 2020, 4 upper caste Thakur men allegedly brutally gang-raped and attacked a 19-year-old Dalit woman in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. She died because of it and the police hurriedly cremated her without the consent of the family. This tragedy led to India actually being forced to deal with its caste problem.…… Read More

“Are you hacking VICE right now?” This Russian hacker told us he is not stealing compromising information, just accessing raw data. In 2017, Ben Makuch traveled the world to meet with hackers, government officials, and dissidents to investigate the ecosystem of cyberwarfare. Watch more like this: An Interview with Hacker ‘Phineas Fisher’ as a Puppet…… Read More

An English teacher reveals the horrors of working at a notorious Hagwon school in South Korea, where staff and students are overworked to the point of breaking. The conditions are so bad that many teachers choose to “midnight run” – disappear in the night with no warning. After dealing with sexual harassment, constant CCTV monitoring,…… Read More

A fire that swept through a crowded wedding hall in a northern Iraqi town, killing more than 100 people, was the result of ‘gross negligence’ and lack of safety measures, according to a government investigation https://reut.rs/3ZFdhS1 Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ #News #Reuters #newsfeed #iraq #fire Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe Reuters…… Read More

Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have been more successful in cracking down on opium than anyone ever has, a BBC investigation has found. The BBC has travelled to major poppy growing areas and had exclusive access to remote provinces where our journalists have seen that farmers have either not grown opium poppy complying with the Taliban’s ban,…… Read More