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  Kabul revisited

  Fri Nov 06 10:13AM

  "If the Taliban came back? Well I wouldn't be able to go out, wear Western clothes, smoke or take photographs. We might as well kill ourselves!" Returning to Kabul after a seven-year gap, it was hard to believe that the Islamists sent packing by US-led forces and Afghanistan's motley Northern… More »

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• Does publishing a photo increase the risk of suicide?

  Tue Nov 03 02:40PM

  More than 70 complaints have been filed to the Press Complaints Commission after a newspaper in Northern Ireland this weekend published a picture of a man who took his own life by hanging.Under the headline 'Halloween Horror' the newspaper Sunday World published a photo of the body of the man… More »

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  Following a very peculiar coup in Honduras

  Thu Oct 29 01:38PM

  Journalists who slept on concrete floors inside the Brazilian embassy, joining deposed president Manuel Zelaya, put up with attacks by music, high-pitched sounds or cell phone threats. They did not know how long their detention would last. Outside, we moved between the Honduran capital's Clarion Hotel, to interview visiting diplomats,… More »

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  Karadzic trial: media coverage that cements the divide

  Tue Oct 27 02:07PM

  The man who failed to show up at his trial on war crimes charges in The Hague yesterday, has always been a shrewd manipulator of the press. I interviewed Radovan Karadzic properly only once, in London in 1992, when he was here to attend a 'peace conference' while his troops… More »

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  White House goes Fox Hunting

  Sat Oct 24 12:34PM

  The White House has declared war. Not on a country, or a terrorist group, but on Fox News, the Rupert Murdoch-owned news channel.Fox, with its line-up of ebullient conservative commentators who rail and rant against liberals on blustery evening shows has been reviled by Democrats for years.But until now, no… More »

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  Hollywood comes to Tbilisi

  Fri Oct 23 03:25PM

  It's not every day that Hollywood descends on Tbilisi. Sure, Renny Harlin is not the star action director he was in the early 90s when he was making films like "Die Hard 2" and "Cliffhanger." And Andy Garcia is no longer at the top of Hollywood's A-list. But by the… More »

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  Did Griffin's Question Time debut help or hinder the BNP?

  Fri Oct 23 01:10PM

  So after all the protests and the heckling, was Thursday night's "Question Time" appearance a dream or a nightmare for British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin? Griffin cut a nervous figure on Thursday night, hands trembling and lips twitching as he faced a barrage of angry questions and heckles… More »

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  Griffin's TV dream could be nightmare for opponents

  Thu Oct 22 12:42PM

  Just a few years ago, Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP), can only have dreamed of being invited on to the nation's leading political panel show. But now he is due to appear on the BBC's "Question Time" Thursday night, commentators are asking what impact it… More »

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  Military ops, crops and laptops in rural Afghanistan

  Mon Oct 19 10:11AM

  I sat on the mud floor of my home for the night, goat droppings all around me, hunched over my laptop in smelly clothes next to Afghan soldiers and US Marines while I filed my copy by satellite.Snipers lined the domed roofs of our compound while Marines patrolled the perimeter,… More »

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