The message from Alice was blunt: “I don’t trust you. You are one of them, right? You all just want to sell me like some animal.” Alice’s hostile reaction wasn’t completely surprising to Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo, the co-authors of “Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds” (Verso), out July 8. “Like the...
If you want to understand the new Saudi Arabia, don’t start with oil. Start with a video game. The 39-year-old crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman — better known as MBS — grew up obsessed with video games, and he continues to play every morning, despite his heavy workload and...
The UK has re-established diplomatic ties with Syria, David Lammy has said, as he made the first visit to the country by a British minister for 14 years.
