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First human rights TV channel vows to 'give a voice to voiceless'
The world's first television channel dedicated to human rights was launched in London on Tuesday with a promise to deliver hidden stories ignored by mainstream media into people's living rooms. The International Observatory of Human Rights said its web-based channel would bring human rights issues ...
U.K. press lambastes 'humiliated' and 'crushed' Theresa May after massive Brexit defeat
Prime Minister Theresa May was left "crushed" and "humiliated," U.K. newspapers said Wednesday as they raked over the fallout from Parliament's huge rejection of her EU divorce deal. Daily papers said May's deal was sunk after the overwhelming vote against the agreement, struck between May's ...
French media denounce violent 'yellow vest' attacks on press
French media and reporters' organizations on Sunday denounced attacks on journalists by "yellow vest" anti-government protesters and called for better protection after a series of incidents this weekend. Paris police fired water cannon and tear gas to push back demonstrators from around the Arc de ...
Japanese government pushes back against New York Times editorial on whaling
The government rebuts an editorial in The New York Times urging Japan to halt its whaling practices, saying the country is committed to the conservation of whales.
Pakistan's journalists complain of increasing censorship, blame intel agency
Pakistani journalists, who have taken on military dictators and been beaten and jailed in the pursuit of a free press, say they now face a form of censorship that is more subtle but no less chilling, one spearheaded by the security services. Journalists and press ...
A high-five from Putin and that awkward photograph — Saudi prince's G20 summit
Russian President Vladimir Putin walked up to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at a summit of Group of 20 world leaders, high-fived him and then shook his hand heartily. Moments earlier the prince had been pictured on the far edge of the ...
Website Nile Net Online promises Egyptians "true news" from its offices in the heart of Cairo's Tahrir Square, "to expand the scope of freedom of expression in the Arab world." Its views on America do not chime with those of Egypt's state media, which celebrate ...
Street by Saudi U.S. Embassy could be renamed 'Jamal Khashoggi Way'
Local officials in a Washington neighborhood have voted to rename a street outside Saudi Arabia's Embassy in honor of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. If approved by the City Council, the advisory commission's measure means a stretch of road going past the expansive embassy building ...
At G20, Saudi prince mingles with Russia's Putin but gets warning from France's Macron
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman showed himself to be no pariah Friday at the Group of 20 summit, with a beaming Vladimir Putin welcoming him but European leaders warning him over the killing of a dissident journalist. Less than two months after Saudi Arabia ...
Award-winning Chinese photographer missing in Xinjiang region, wife says
An award-winning Chinese photographer is missing and may have been detained by state security officers while visiting China's far-flung western Xinjiang region, his wife said. Lu Guang, a three-time World Press Photo award winner, had been invited to take part in photography events in the ...
Wall Street Journal says Carlos Ghosn enduring 'bizarre inquisition' in Japan
Ousted Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn is enduring a "bizarre inquisition" in Japan, a Wall Street Journal editorial said Tuesday. He has been "held in detention for days without being charged, interrogated by prosecutors without a lawyer present, and fired from his post amid ...
U.K. watchdog to probe China state media over role in 'confession'
A British fraud investigator has asked the country's media regulator to revoke Chinese state media's broadcast license for helping to stage his allegedly forced confession and subsequent jailing in China. Peter Humphrey, who was sentenced to over two years in prison by a Shanghai court ...
