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Bought and sold like used cars

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic meets some of the domestic maids being illegally traded on commodity apps in Kuwait, including a 16 year old girl from Guinea.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News Arabic’s undercover investigation, Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market, exposes the mainstream app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery by trading domestic staff, including a 16-year-old girl from Guinea in West Africa.

Global ghosts and ghouls
Halloween scary monsters and super creeps on the Fifth Floor, including the headless gut-trailing Krasue of Thailand and Ukraine’s green-haired Mavka. With ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Thai’s Issariya Praithongyaem, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Ukrainian’s Anastasiya Gribanova, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Brasil’s Luis Barrucho, Moe Myint of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Burmese, Peter Okwoche of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Russian’s Yulia James.

Keeping the kids out of trouble
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa’s Raissa Ioussouf joined a group of African diaspora women living in Paris on "mum patrol", a night-time patrol to keep their young people out of trouble.

The changing sound of Kabul
Many Afghans in Kabul are complaining about rising noise levels. One of the main causes is the shift to loudspeakers by the city’s street-sellers, rather than their own voices. Zala Sahar of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Pashto has been trying to make herself heard.

Singing bowls
Nepal's famous singing bowls are traditionally handmade in bronze and produce mesmerising sounds, but can they also do more? ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Nepali’s Kamal Pariyar met makers and therapists who say a well-made bowl has healing powers.

(Image: Thumbnail pictures of maids for sale. Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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