Officials in a Chicago suburb issued citations to a local news reporter in late October after he persistently contacted elected officials about a flooding issue. The Daily Southtown, a regional newspaper owned by the Chicago Tribune Media Group, the parent company of The Chicago Tribune, published an article by Hank Sanders about consultants informing officials…
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A serviceman has been killed in a residential complex in the village of Chaiky, Kyiv region, as a result of careless handling of ammunition, the press service of the National Police of Ukraine reports. “According to preliminary information, a 39-year-old serviceman was killed as a result of a grenade explosion. His 13-year-old son is seriously…
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A Filipino radio journalist, Juan Jumalon, was shot and killed during a live broadcast at his home in the southwest Philippines early on Sunday, according to the local authorities, who were searching for possibly multiple attackers. Mr. Jumalon, 57, who hosted a radio program under the name D.J. Johnny Walker, was livestreaming his show on…
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On Monday, November 6, at 10.00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host a press conference by Ukrainian Member of Parliament Oleksandr Dubinsky (not a member of any parliamentary faction) entitled “Falsification of criminal cases by Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, Head of the State Bureau of Investigation Oleksiy Sukhachev, and Head of the…
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Finally, on an October afternoon in 2017, she was killed at age 53 as she turned out of her driveway. A bomb that had been planted overnight, triggered remotely, blew her and her gray Peugeot to pieces. A farmer who was driving by is quoted by her youngest son, Paul Caruana Galizia, as saying that…
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The Defense Ministry of Ukraine, together with the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, transferred unmanned aerial vehicles to the Ukrainian army in a record time of three days, the press service of the Defense Ministry has said. “The Defense…
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Ex-commander of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of Ukraine Viktor Khorenko will continue to carry out special tasks as part of the Main Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. “General Viktor Khorenko, who commanded the Special Operations Forces, will continue to perform special tasks as part of Defense Intelligence of…
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A newspaper publisher and reporter in Alabama were arrested last week and charged with disclosing grand jury evidence in an article, alarming press freedom advocates who raised First Amendment concerns. The Escambia County district attorney, Stephen Billy, brought the felony charges against Sherry Digmon, the publisher and co-owner of Atmore News in Atmore, Ala., and…
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Russians have thrown an unprecedented amount of their personnel and equipment in Avdiyivka direction and are not abandoning attempts to cordon off the city, the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade said. “Avdiyivka. The occupiers have thrown an unprecedented amount of their personnel and equipment in this direction and do not abandon attempts to cordon off the…
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President of France Emmanuel Macron arrived in Uzbekistan on an official visit on Wednesday, the Uzbek government’s press service said. Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov met Macron at Samarkand International Airport, the press service said in a statement. “Later today, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will meet with Macron on Samarkand’s historic square of Registan,”…
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