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Afghan journalist Zahra Joya among Time’s women of the year

Now a refugee in the UK, Joya and the Rukhshana Media agency defied threats to report on life for women under the TalibanThe Afghan journalist Zahra Joya has been named as one of Time’s women of the year 2022 for her reporting of women’s lives in Afgha…

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Man acquitted of Daniel Pearl beheading tells court of ‘minor role’ in killing

Letter by Islamist militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh tells of involvement in US journalist’s 2002 deathAfter 18 years of denial the British-born militant who was convicted and later acquitted of the beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl has …

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China denies credentials to Wall Street Journal reporter

Chun Han Wong, who covered Xi Jinping extensively, is in effect expelled from countryChinese authorities have declined to renew the press credentials of a Beijing-based Wall Street Journal reporter, in effect expelling a journalist who extensively cove…

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