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No decision has yet been made on whether to prosecute US troops responsible for the killing of an award-winning journalist near Basra at the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the British government has revealed. The coroner of the delayed inquest into the death of Terry Lloyd wrote to Attorney General Lord Goldsmith last October "to see whether any steps can be taken to bring the perpetrators...

The Wall Street Journal will raise its weekday newsstand price from $1 to $1.50, starting July 16, the newspaper’s parent, Dow Jones & Company, said yesterday. The subscription price will not change, a company spokesman said, so more than 90 percent of The Journal’s buyers will not be affected. The weekday newsstand price has not risen since April 2001. In that time, newspaper costs have soared...

Ambika Bhandari, the editor of Samyentra Weekly, a newspaper based in Biratchowk (in the southeastern district of Morang), was forced to flee the district on 12 June after being threatened by Bikram Bhujel, the owner of a restaurant called “Don’t cross me.” In the issue that appeared on 12 June, Bhandari published an article saying the restaurant was a hangout for prostitutes. Bhujel immediately...

A leading New Zealand journalist has been detained by Fijian authorities at Nadi airport in the wake of the expulsion of the New Zealand high commissioner, Michael Green. Michael Field, the Auckland bureau chief for Fairfax New Zealand, was refused entry to Fiji when he arrived in Nadi on an Air Pacific flight from New Zealand. Mr Field who authored a book on Fiji's 2000 coup and has written...

Stockholm - A reporter who recently subjected Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to a wet practical joke at a film premiere faces possible charges but maintains her innocence, reports said Thursday. Reinfeldt was attending the gala premier of Pirates of the Caribbean with his two sons in May when a reporter hired by one of Swedish broadcaster SVT's production companies sprayed water on him...

PESHAWAR: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have announced that June 15 (Friday) will be observed as ‘Global Action Day’ to safeguard press freedom in Pakistan on the eve of the first death anniversary of slain tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan, who was killed on June 16, 2006. According to the two organisations, the government...

KARACHI: Freelance journalist Iqbal Kazmi, who was booked by Darakhshan Police late on Tuesday night in four different cases, was sent to jail on judicial remand till June 16. Judicial Magistrate South Allah Bachayo issued the order. Judicial Magistrate East Samina Ghauri issued identical orders for Kazmi to be sent on judicial remand. According to police, the four cases registered against Kazmi...

KUALA LUMPUR: The police have recorded a statement from a reporter with an English daily for “excessive creative reporting” in the case of the landlord who fixed spy cameras in a house he rented out to female students. Sentul OCPD Asst Comm K. Kumaran said they would also interview a reporter with a Malay tabloid in connection with the case. “All the information concerning the case is confidential...

SEOUL, June 14 (Yonhap) -- An appellate court fined a local lawmaker Thursday for sexually harassing a woman reporter last year, overturning a lower court ruling that convicted him and delivered a suspended six-month imprisonment. The Seoul High Court fined Rep. Choi Yeon-hee, former secretary general of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP), five million won (US$5,300), suspending the...

MONTERREY, Mexico · Gamaliel Lopez Candanosa seemed an unlikely candidate to join the ranks of missing or murdered reporters in Mexico, now the second deadliest country in the world for journalists after Iraq. Known for his rascal's smile and laughing eyes, Lopez distinguished himself not as a hard-nosed investigative reporter, but as the clown prince of television news in this prosperous...