Azhar Sukri
speaker
827 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard Aug 2025
Azhar Sukri’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to send three Navy warships to intercept drug cartels off the coast of South America, including near Venezuela.
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The move is an expansion of the Pentagon's role in combating illegal narcotics smuggling and intensifies a U.S.
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confrontation with the country's president, Nicolás Maduro.
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Trump has designated Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
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Eric Prince, the founder and former leader of Blackwater, is back in the White House's good graces and believes his new guns-for-hire firm can pick up the slack for international security jobs the Trump administration would prefer not to pay for.
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Blackwater was once America's largest mercenary force, but lost its standing in the US after the disclosure of violent excesses during former President George W. Bush's war on terror.
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The former Navy SEAL has a new venture, Vectus Global, a collective of companies contracted to do security work in Ecuador, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti.
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And journal correspondent Benoit Faucon reports that the work aligns with Trump's foreign policy goals of curbing illegal immigration and opening access to critical minerals.
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The White House declined to comment on Prince's ties to the administration.
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Coming up in the latest installment in our Price of Parenting series, we hear how the rising cost of childcare is hitting family budgets and leading to a drag on the overall economy.
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That's after the break.
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Now, this week, we're putting a special focus on all the tricky financial decisions that parents face in 2025.
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Not least, the soaring cost of childcare globally.
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In the US, care for one child can easily top $10,000 or $15,000 a year.
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The costs keep climbing too, outpacing wage growth in most states.
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And the effects are tangible.
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A disproportionate number of women never return to the workforce after having kids.
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leading to a drag on economic productivity and growth.
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So what can be done to fix the cost of childcare?
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Economics reporter Teping Chen spoke to our supervising producer and mother of two, Sandra Kilhoff.
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