A year after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building left more than 1,100 dead, Washington says it remains concerned about worker safety and rights in Bangladesh. In a briefing for journalists, a group of senior US officials said progress…
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Three pro-Russian militants and one attacker were killed in a gunbattle near the volatile eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk early Sunday, a local leader told journalists. Vyatcheslav Ponomarev said the battle broke out at a barricade put up in a village…
Four French journalists taken hostage in Syria last year were freed on Saturday after a 10-month ordeal in the world’s most dangerous country for the media. French President Francois Hollande announced the release of Edouard Elias, Didier Francois,…
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has criticised Algerian authorities over delays in issuing visas for foreign journalists to cover the country’s presidential election on Thursday. Many journalists were “issued visas late in the day accompanied…
Journalists have always faced up to facts, but a new wave of fact-checking journalism has gained prominence in the past decade to counter misleading or outrageous claims of political figures. Notable among these are FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact, which…
Under mounting pressure from Moscow, a defiant group of pro-Ukrainian activists, journalists and minority representatives in Crimea continue to protest the annexation of the peninsula by Russia. “We know very well that we are being watched,” said Anna…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists has secured an insurance policy for journalists who often work in poor conditions across the country and fall victim to accidents and attacks by militant groups. VOA’s Ndimyake Mwakalyelye reports and later talks to…
Dozens of journalists protested Saturday in Malaysia against the suspension of a weekly magazine, urging the Southeast Asian nation to allow greater press freedom. The Heat stopped publication last month after the Home Ministry suspended it, saying…
Some 108 journalists and media professionals were killed around the world doing their jobs this year, with conflict-torn Syria the deadliest country ahead of Iraq, the International Federation of Journalists said Tuesday. The death toll is down 10 percent…
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Somali authorities arrested two journalists, one of them the victim of…