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ROME (Reuters) - Lirio Abbate has an unwelcome distinction among Italian journalists: correspondent in Sicily for the state news agency Ansa and La Stampa newspaper, he has had his own armed police escort for the past six months. Italian journalists Lirio Abbate works in his office in Rome October 18, 2007. Abbate, correspondent in Sicily for state news agency Ansa and 'La Stampa' newspaper, has...

(M&C) - The BBC journalist who was abducted and held by militants in Gaza City earlier this year is to reveal details of his ordeal in an hour-long Panorama special. Alan Johnston spent 113 days in captivity before being released in on July 4. The documentary, to be shown on October 25, will include questions put to Mr Johnston and interviews with some of those involved in the campaign for his...

TAIPING: An Indonesian construction worker claimed trial to raping a 34-year-old journalist from his home country. Remmang, 46, pleaded not guilty to raping the woman between 9pm on Sept 17 and 1am the next day at a kongsi house at the construction site of the Mara Junior Science College in Liman Kati, Kuala Kangsar. He also denied hurting her at the same time and place. Remmang, from Sulawesi...

An Indonesian reporter who went to Malaysia to write a special report on allegations of abuse and exploitation of Indonesian workers in the country was last week assaulted and raped by a man who tricked her into believing that he could provide her with information. According to reports, the 34-year-old magazine journalist was lured by a man, believed to be also Indonesian, to a rumah kongsi (a...

New York, September 10, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the death of three Mexican reporters killed during a blast on Sunday night while covering a collision between a truck carrying dynamite and a vehicle in the northern Coahuila state. At least 34 people were killed and 150 injured in the explosion, The Associated Press reported. Monclova-based reporters David Herrera from the...

A year and a half following the violent shockwaves sent across the Islamic world with the publication of 12 editorial cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed and criticizing Islam in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, culture editor Flemming Rose said he apologizes for offending the sentiments of Muslim people but has no regrets as that would mean succumbing to pressure and compromising freedom of...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on journalists’ groups around the world to provide support to Peruvian journalists and their families who have been made homeless in the earthquake disaster which shook the country last week. A dog passes next to a semi-submerged pick-up, in an area flooded by waves triggered by Wednesday's quake in Paracas, a popular tourist spot just...

LONDON: Lord Deedes, a vaunted British journalist and former politician and close friend of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has died, the Telegraph Media Group said Friday. He was 94. Deedes, who edited the Daily Telegraph newspaper for 12 years and served as a Conservative lawmaker for 24 years, was still writing regular columns up until his death, which followed a short illness. He...

Senior Zee television reporter Shobana Singh died after being washed away by the strong currents of water in the Shatru nallah, about 19 km from Koksar on NH-21, in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh Saturday evening. Police reports from Keylong said the body of the TV reporter was recovered about 10 metres below the highway in the nallah. The body was buried under a heap of mud and...

Reporters Without Borders today urged the Kazakh authorities not to come to any hasty conclusions about Saken Tauzhanov’s death on 2 August and to do everything possible to clarify the circumstances. The authorities said the 37-year-old journalist, who wrote for three independent news websites, zonakz.net, dialog.kz, and kub.kz, was run over by a truck. “We wonder about the circumstances of this...