Yasmeen Khan

speaker

572 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 31 Aug

Yasmeen Khan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 6 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Apple News Today · The unanswered questions behind Trump’s “biggest oil deal” ever · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

There have also been some questions about the extent to which an interim Venezuelan government can be making deals of this kind, as no elections have been scheduled for a permanent leader in the country.

And there's already been pushback to the idea of the US potentially profiting off Venezuelan resources.

Rodriguez has responded to some of those concerns, saying that Venezuela would retain sovereignty over its resources.

As for the US, the arrangement is predicated on the idea that it could help bring down gas prices, but experts say it will take years to get infrastructure up and running, and even longer before Americans see any changes at the pump.

Rescue teams are still searching for thousands of missing people in Nepal after a wall of water, mud, and debris tore through the mountains in a terrifying disaster.

There were mass burials over the weekend, and officials are worried that they're only finding a fraction of the missing so far, signaling that the death toll will almost certainly rise.

Reporting on the region and getting information back to many Western outlets has been a challenge.

Ishaan Thuror is a global affairs columnist for The New Yorker.

He spoke with a former colleague of his in recent days who's now editorial director at Nepal's largest media company.

He told Thoror about the difficulties in accessing the affected area.

What also became clear in their conversation, the Roar says, was just how much Nepal had been through in recent years.

He was referring to Nepal's devastating twenty fifteen earthquake, last year's Gen Z uprising in the country, and now this calamity, among other things.

Scientists believe the landslide was likely caused by a glacier melting and falling from high up in the Himalayas.

Temperatures in this region have risen twice as fast as the global average, and leaders in Nepal say their country is being disproportionately hurt by climate change, especially considering Nepal's average emissions.

Thoreau spoke with one of those leaders, a member of Parliament, who didn't mince words.

She said,

Benjamin Horton, an earth scientist at the University of Hong Kong, echoed that sentiment in a conversation with Reuters.

Just this weekend, Nepal's foreign minister called for a global effort to tackle climate change.

Meanwhile, leaders are dealing with what's just ahead.

Heavy rainfall is coming, which could bring new threats of rising water to people who live along the country's rivers.

Showing 21–40 of 572 · page 2 of 29