Kuldip Nayar, veteran Indian journalist and author, passed away at a Delhi hospital late Wednesday night. He was 95. According to Indian media, the senior journalist is survived by his wife and two sons. A human rights activist, Nayar was a renowned left-wing political commentator. He contributed a weekly opinion piece for The Express Tribune too. Nayar was known for his efforts to improve relations between India and Pakistan. He led various peace initiatives including lighting candles on independence days of Pakistan and India at the Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar. Born in August 1923 in British India, Nayar spent his early childhood and youth in Pakistan. He graduated from…
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Former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson has been allowed to return to Twitter, which banned him in 2021 for allegedly spreading COVID-19 misinformation. Berenson and Twitter released similar statements on July 6. “The parties have come to a mutually acceptable resolution. I have been reinstated. Twitter has acknowledged that my tweets should have not led to my suspension at that time,” Berenson said in a blog post on July 6, which he linked to in his first post on the platform since he was permanently suspended,” Berenson said in a blog post. “The parties have come to a mutually…
Andy Ngo, a journalist known for his reporting on anarcho-communist group Antifa, said his podcast was permanently suspended by Soundcloud. Ngo, also the editor-at-large for the Post Millennial, wrote on Twitter that the music-sharing and podcast website “has permanently banned me & my podcast @YouShouldNgo.” “In an email, it says I violated its community guidelines without naming the alleged offending content,” he wrote, adding that guests he’s had on the show include Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, and Douglas K. Murray. According to a report from the Post Millennial, SoundCloud sent Ngo an email saying his podcast violated the firm’s terms of…
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s office on Monday congratulated journalist Maria Ressa for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it “a victory for a Filipina” for which it was happy to see. Ressa, founder of Philippine news site Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov shared the 2021 prize after braving the wrath of the leaders of the Philippines and Russia to expose corruption and misrule. Ressa has been fighting multiple legal challenges in courts related to Rappler’s dogged investigative reporting of Duterte’s government, its bloody war on drugs, and its use of social media to target opponents. “It is a victory for a Filipina and we are very…
A prominent Guatemalan newspaper editor who has overseen investigations into corruption has been arrested, prompting denunciations Saturday by politicians, anticorruption activists and civic groups. Prosecution agents arrested José Ruben Zamora Marroquín at his home on Friday night, searching his home, seizing telephones and accusing him of money laundering. Zamora Marroquín is a prize-winning journalist who heads the newspaper El Periodico. “This is an orchestrated plan, where the aim now is not to pursue those who are corrupt, but rather opponents,” said human rights activist Eleonora Muralles. “The strategy is to coopt the whole system and have judges — with serious…
Christophe Deloire, who negotiated to free imprisoned journalists around the world and offered refuge to reporters under threat as the head of media freedom group Reporters Without Borders, died Saturday. He was 53. Deloire had been battling sudden and aggressive cancer and died in Paris surrounded by loved ones, according to board members of Reporters Without Borders, also known by its French acronym RSF. Deloire was ‘’a tireless defender, on every continent, of the freedom, independence and pluralism of journalism, in a context of information chaos,” RSF said in a statement. “Journalism was his life’s struggle, which he fought with unshakeable conviction,’’ it added. With boundless…
Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis broke the men’s pole vault world record again on Friday night as he wowed crowds in France. The flying Swede set a new bar in pole vault for the 11th time in his career after he cleared 6.27m at the All Star Perche event. The 25-year-old clinched the competition win in Clermond-Ferrand when he easily cleared 6.02m before he attempted to improve his own record mark which he set back in August in Poland. And it did not take Duplantis long after he nudged his record up by a centimetre from 6.26m with his very first attempt.…
Three members of an Eastern European crime group were arrested in a thwarted murder-for-hire plot targeting a U.S. journalist and human rights activist of Iranian origin who is a prominent critic of Iran, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday. One of the men, 24-year-old New York resident Khalid Mehdiyev, was apprehended in late July with an AK-47-style assault rifle near the victim’s home in Brooklyn as he was about to “execute the attack on the victim,” according to an indictment unsealed Friday in Manhattan federal court. Authorities said the plot was conducted at the behest of unidentified individuals in Iran.…
As the Texas Rangers got ready to face the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday, pitcher Patrick Corbin’s lead-up to the game was out of the ordinary to say the least. Corbin suffered a bite by an unknown insect two days before the contest, which had him doubting he’d play – but by what? “Something bit me, but I still don’t know what,” Corbin told reporters Thursday, per MLB.com Rangers writer Kennedi Landry. Such was the severity of the bite, Rangers manager Bruce Bochy was even unsure if Corbin would be able to start the game due to his lack of mobility. “He had a bite.…
A U.S. journalist has been detained in Russia, her employer said, the second such case since the war in Ukraine started. Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual Russian-American reporter with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was detained in the southwest Russian city of Kazan on Wednesday while awaiting the return of her passports, her employer said in a statement released on Thursday. RFE/RL said Kurmasheva, who is based in Prague, has been charged with failure to register as a foreign agent, a designation Russia requires of any organizations or individuals that it perceives as receiving foreign funding. It has been used to target journalists and people who…