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China using COVID-19 pandemic to obstruct foreign journalists
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 3 (ANI): China increased restrictions for the foreign press amid the coronavirus pandemic and denied access for foreign journalists to certain areas, notably in Xinjiang, even though they remained open to other people, according to a press group.
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UK PM faces backlash for 'journalists abuse people' remark
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], February 23 (ANI/Sputnik): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sparked criticism after telling children on Tuesday that journalists "are always abusing people," with a Labour lawmaker urging him to apologize and the head of the National Union of Journalists saying that such rema
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Activists, Uyghurs protest in Paris to ensure Pakistan is placed on FATF b
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Exiled journalists, human rights activists, and Uyghurs on Tuesday gathered at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) headquarters in Paris to persuade the anti-terror financing organisation to place Pakistan on the blacklist.
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US continues to stand with Burmese people voicing aspirations for peace an
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 22 (ANI): The US continues to stand with the people of Burma as they voice their aspirations for peace and democracy and it calls on the military to stop violence, release all those unjustly detained and cease attacks on journalists and activists, according to US
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6 year jail for two Iraqi Kurdish journalists is unfair, says Committee to
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], February 20 (ANI): The sentencing of Iraqi Kurdish journalists Sherwan Sherwani and Guhdar Zebari to six years in jail "for jeopardising Kurdish national security" is "unfair and disproportionate", according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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SC grants journalist Siddique Kappan interim bail to meet his ailing mothe
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday granted five-day interim bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan to visit his ailing mother in Kerla.
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Both India, Afghanistan want to see region free of terrorism, says PM Modi
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 9 (ANI): Expressing concerns over the rising violence in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed targeting of the civilians, journalists and workers by the terrorists a "cowardice act" and asserted that both India and Afghanistan want to see the region
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