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Ambika Kandasamy

News Editor

GlobalPost

Ambika Kandasamy is a news editor at GlobalPost. Prior to joining GlobalPost, she worked as a social media producer at Media Cause and as an assistant news editor and reporter at San Francisco Public Press. She was awarded the Women Immigrants Fellowship by New America Media in 2012. She received her master's degree in journalism from Boston University.

A poll about WWII may force one of Russia’s last independent channels to close

Agence France-Presse

Following a strong social media backlash to the poll on the Siege of Leningrad, several television companies began severing ties with the channel Dozhd.

These 9 photos show the widespread destruction caused by Indonesia’s massive volcanic eruption

Agence France-Presse

Q&A: Kyiv Post editor describes reporting from behind protest barricades

Agence France-Presse

This happened over the weekend and it wasn’t in Ukraine, Thailand or Venezuela

Agence France-Presse

Crisis in Crimea

Agence France-Presse

What does the crisis in Crimea mean for US-Russia relations?

Agence France-Presse

GlobalPost talked to Thomas Nichols, a national security expert, who said the US policy with regard to Russia could ‘bring down’ its policies in Syria and Iran.

Thousands clash with police during the funeral of a young boy in Turkey (PHOTOS)

Agence France-Presse

The photos are brutal.

The city of light is really hard to see these days

Agence France-Presse

… thanks to hazardous levels of air pollution.

Foreign and domestic media face restrictions amid Venezuela unrest

Agence France-Presse

Safety of journalists and residents continues to be a challenge in the South American country.

This gorgeous flower carpet in Guatemala just set a Guinness World Record

Agence France-Presse

The record was set in Guatemala City this week when municipal employees and volunteers came together to make a 6,061-foot-long carpet of flowers and sawdust.