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Last month I wrote about Lucozade Energy’s search for a creative journalist to report on various extreme challenges taking place this summer.
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Iran’s foreign minister assured his visiting Japanese counterpart that the case of an American journalist imprisoned in Tehran for allegedly spying for the United...
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The judiciary spokesman has denied that the American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. is on a hunger strike and says she is in “good...
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The father of an American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. says his daughter is “very weak” after seven days on a hunger strike.
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An American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. was on her fifth day of a hunger strike Saturday and does not plan to stop until she is freed,...
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The father of an American journalist who has been convicted of spying in Iran says she has gone on a hunger strike to protest her imprisonment.
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Neighbors and friends in the hometown of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran were drawn together when they filled sandbags to fight off the Red River last month....
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Iran’s judiciary ordered a full investigation Monday into the case of an American journalist imprisoned for allegedly spying for the U.S. and allowed the...
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is renewing calls for Iran to release an American journalist convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison.
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A member of Reporters Without Borders, holds a placard with the picture of American journalist Roxana Saberi jailed in Iran, outside the Iran Air office in Paris Tuesday, April 28, 2009. American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the...
