Joshua Yang

My latest, with @hannah_natanson: The Trump administration is rolling back programs that were created to assist more than 250,000 Afghans with planned resettlement in the United States. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

The Trump administration is rolling back programs that were meant to assist more than 250,000 Afghans with planned resettlement in the U.S. Many, including those who risked their lives to help Americans, could now face retribution from the Taliban. wapo.st/4lDLyLF

China Gets More Airtime Around the World as Voice of America Signs Off—Chinese state media has expanded its reach from Indonesia to Nigeria after Trump dismantled government-funded outlets @aviswanatha @alexandrawexler @hwclarence wsj.com/world/china/vo…

Hungarian authorities have declined to detain or arrest the tens of thousands of participants who took part in Budapest’s LGBTQ+ Pride parade last month, the city’s police said, despite looming fears of an after-the-fact crackdown. wapo.st/44N100M

Among the State Department offices cut was the Office of Multilateral Affairs within EAP, which managed U.S. engagement with the countries that make up ASEAN and coordinated the diplomatic response to China’s actions in the South China Sea washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Investigators say both engines on Air India 171 lost fuel shortly after takeoff, likely due to fuel switches being moved to cutoff. Cockpit audio suggests the pilots were confused by a switch setting. wapo.st/4eL6xcZ

The United States sanctioned Francesca Albanese, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, alleging that Albanese is targeting U.S. and Israeli nationals for prosecution in the International Criminal Court. wapo.st/4eCPIRi

International student visa seekers told me they're deleting seemingly innocuous memes and posts and unfollowing celebrities - for fear of diverging from the “founding principles of the U.S.” after the State Dept. began expanded social media vetting: washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

Defunded by Trump, a Sri Lankan Project Confronts the Problem It Tried to Solve thenation.com/article/politi…

With @ZahraYusufi and @BethVanSchaack — ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women, girls washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

Two months after militants targeted Hindu tourists in Kashmir, killing 26 people and sparking conflict between India and Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims set out from the site of the attack for an annual pilgrimage through the territory. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

The collection of essays explores how China’s crackdown has reshaped life in the city, from its surreal show trials to the transformation of civil society. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/29/hon…

"Omran shouldn’t have died, doctors said. The physician at his clinic outside the Sudanese capital said basic antibiotics probably would have cured his chest infection ... then the new U.S. administration froze foreign aid programs." washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…

Shalev Ben David did not expect his free trip to Israel to end on the pool deck of a Cyprus-bound cruise liner while Iranian missiles rained down on Tel Aviv, but he made the best of it. “We partied the second we got on the boat till we got off,” he said. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…

.@ZohranKMamdani has drawn attention for his criticism of Israel and PM Benjamin Netanyahu — but that's not the only foreign leader he has criticized. New from me: washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…