Priyanka Shankar

Priyanka Shankar is a freelance reporter at aljazeera.com

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Priyanka specialises in migration, human rights and Europe's evolving relationships with Asia. Previously, she worked at Reuters in Bangalore, India, focusing on US and Asian business news. Priyanka is based between Belgium and India, and her work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, El País, the Times, Lighthouse Reports, Deutsche Welle and Nikkei Asia. She was part of the Al Jazeera English team which won the Edward R Murrow Award in 2024 for its breaking news coverage of Israel's war on Gaza. Her cross-border investigation on a team with five other journalists into a shadow banking system along an irregular migration route garnered an honourable mention at the Trace Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2024.

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Women and children walk down the street of a Rohingya refugee camp.

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A supporter of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) looks out from a police van after being detained by police during a protest demanding the resignation of India’s Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged voter roll irregularities linked to the "special intensive revision" (SIR), in New Delhi on October 10, 2026.

These were the updates on the US-Israel war on Iran from Friday, October 9, 2026.

Supporters of the Houthi authorities brandish their weapons during a protest against Saudi intervention in Yemen, in Sanaa, on October 9, 2026.

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Iran oil

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Diesel

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US Navy sailors tend to a fighter jet on the flight deck of the USS George Washington in the Arabian Sea on September 11, 2026. [Ed Ou/Reuters]

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Switzerland

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This handout picture dated January 12, 2023 provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows convicted US murderer Christa Pike.

BRICS Pay is a decentralised digital system for making international payments in currencies other than the dollar.

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