The international tribunal dealing with the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister has charged two journalists with contempt of court and obstruction of justice.
Habib Zahori on losing his friend Sardar Ahmed, a journalist who was killed along with his wife and two of their three children in a Taliban attack on a hotel in Kabul.
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The attack at the Serena Hotel in Kabul that left Sardar Ahmad, his wife and two of their three children dead has devastated his colleagues and prompted an unusual apology from the Taliban.
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A large, blank space replaced the article exploring what the country knew of Osama bin Laden’s final hide-out.
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Days after knife-wielding assailants killed 29 people and injured 143 at the train station in Kunming, Chinese authorities appeared eager to change the subject.
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Never before has the pre-Olympic chatter been less about the athletes or the sports. And never before has the conversation leading up the Games been so grim.
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The former interpreter, Noor Ahmad Noori, was found beaten, stabbed and possibly suffocated on a roadside near Lashkar Gah, where he lived.
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The journalists from Al Jazeera English face charges that include belonging to a terrorist group and harming Egypt’s reputation abroad.
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Analysts will for the first time post messages on English-language websites that jihadists use to recruit, raise money and promote their cause.
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Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, the second in recent months, on the Express Media Group, but suspicion fell on the Pakistani Taliban.
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Two reporters for Radio France Internationale had been interviewing a leader with a separatist group in Mali’s unstable desert north. Their bodies were found with their throats slit.
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While there is no evidence that Samantha Lewthwaite was involved in the Kenya mall attack, British newspapers remain fascinated with the woman they call the “white widow.”
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Donald Sachtleben, a former bomb technician, agreed to plead guilty to leaking classified details about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen, the Justice Department announced.
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A report that cited “collective incompetence” of the country’s security forces was leaked after Pakistani authorities had suppressed it for months.
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A newspaper has published the names of likely witnesses in the murder trial of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister who was assassinated in 2005.
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