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A Philippine mayor and his son who negotiated with al-Qaida-linked rebels for the release of an abducted TV news anchor and three other people have been arrested as suspects in the kidnappings, officials said Thursday.
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The United Arab Emirates canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt Sunday and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad, evidence of Iraq’s improved...
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As of Sunday, July 6, 2008, at least 4,114 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Iraqi police and medical officials say a bomb has killed the head of a U.S.-allied Sunni group south of Baghdad.
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The United Arab Emirates canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt Sunday and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad, evidence of Iraq’s improved...
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The United Arab Emirates is canceling all the debt Iraq owes to the tiny oil-rich Gulf state.
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Iraqi police and medical officials say a car bomb in northern Baghdad has killed six people and injured 14 others, including three policemen.
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In an interview last March with Bloomberg’s Judy Woodruff, the late conservative scholar William F. Buckley said President Bush’s legacy would be judged purely on...
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The U.S. military says an American soldier in Iraq has died of a noncombat cause.
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Republican John McCain, who has made support for President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is getting from help from...
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Barack Obama said Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has “finely calibrated” his recent words on Iraq, and denied that he intends to anything...
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The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a...
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The knock on Brian Hart’s door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had...
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A court ordered Canada’s refugee board Friday to take another look at a U.S. Army deserter’s failed bid for asylum in a ruling that could affect scores of...
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Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq’s biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said.
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Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country’s archaeological sites.
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Barack Obama’s policy for bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq as stated on his Web site:
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Democrat Barack Obama struggled Thursday to explain how his upcoming trip to Iraq might refine, but not basically alter, his promise to quickly remove U.S. combat...
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Democrat Barack Obama says he’s always been open to refining his Iraq policy but blamed Republican John McCain’s campaign for suggesting “we were...
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Democrat Barack Obama says he’s always been opening to refining his Iraq policy but blamed Republican John McCain’s campaign for suggesting “we were...
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The State Department on Thursday denied charges by a House committee that it inappropriately encouraged a Texas-based oil company to strike an exploration deal with the...
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Egyptian security are restricting journalists covering an African Union summit after a British TV crew got into a verbal confrontation with Zimbabwe’s Robert...
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A newspaper editor and his colleague in Azerbaijan were convicted Tuesday of treason Tuesday and sentenced to prison.
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A police officer accused of heading a paramilitary militia has denied any part in the kidnapping and torture of two journalists.
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An international media watchdog said Tuesday it was deeply concerned about a Manila television crew that was feared kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in the...
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The residence of leading Marathi daily Loksatta’s editor Kumar Ketkar was attacked allegedly by Shiv Sangram activists on Thursday for criticising the...
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Two Brazilian journalists investigating paramilitaries in this city’s sprawling slums say they were kidnapped and tortured by armed men who identified themselves...
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Loosely flipping through half a dozen newspapers, my friend said to me, yawning a bit too wide, “Nothing really exciting!” “What happened? There is enough these...
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The arrests of two Vietnamese reporters for their coverage of a bribery, gambling and corruption scandal have led to a highly unusual confrontation between...
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India figures among 13 most dangerous countries for journalists to work and fares very poorly when it comes to prosecuting killers of scribes, according to city-based...
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Thirteen countries consistently let killers of journalists get away with murder _ from war-torn Iraq and Somalia to the peaceful democracies of Mexico, Russia and...
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China’s new plan for press coverage of the Olympic torch’s ascent of Mount Everest has touched off a new controversy.
Health experts and media groups said...
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A journalism rights group said Wednesday it is concerned for the safety of reporters in the run-up to this summer’s Olympics after accounts of threats against...
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An international journalists group appealed to Chinese authorities Monday to stop what it called interference with news coverage leading up to the Beijing Olympics.
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A New York Times correspondent and a British man who were arrested and accused of reporting illegally in Zimbabwe are now free on bail, but their passports are being...
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Lawyers say an American and a Briton detained on charges of reporting illegally on the Zimbabwean election have been released on bail.
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Security agents detained at least 16 journalists in Belarus and searched their homes and offices for materials that allegedly libel authoritarian President Alexander...
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A U.S. District Judge has found former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in contempt of court for not revealing the identities of people she talked to for a story on the...
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China forced the last remaining foreign journalists out of Tibet on Thursday, and stepped up restrictions on Internet and radio reports from people within the country,...
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Hundreds of Iraqi journalists have been forced into exile since the war started five years ago, Reporters without Borders announced in a report released Wednesday.
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Cuba’s President Raul Castro holds up his press card during the closing ceremony of the 8th Congress of the Cuban Journalists Union, UPEC, in Havana, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Castro was made an honorary member of UPEC by its members.
