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A CNN team rescued a ‘prisoner’ from Syrian jail. Now, the outlet admits he was an Assad torturer
6 days, 4 hours ago

A CNN team rescued a ‘prisoner’ from Syrian jail. Now, the outlet admits he was an Assad torturer

The Independent  

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Prisoner freed by CNN in Syria was member of Assad’s forces who killed civilians and tortured innocent men: Report
Top News
6 days, 12 hours ago

Prisoner freed by CNN in Syria was member of Assad’s forces who killed civilians and tortured innocent men: Report

Hindustan Times  

A prisoner who was caught on camera being freed by a CNN reporter and her team was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad’s forces, a local fact check has revealed. Fact-checkers Verify-Sy claimed the man is named Salama Mohammad Salama, a first lieutenant in Syrian air force intelligence who allegedly tortured people who refused to pay him off. Prisoner …

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CNN frees Syrian prisoner. He turns out to be Assad regime's torturer: Report
6 days, 19 hours ago

CNN frees Syrian prisoner. He turns out to be Assad regime's torturer: Report

India Today  

CNN is under fire after a fact-check revealed that a Syrian prisoner recently freed by its crew was allegedly a former operative of Bashar al-Assad's regime, accused of torture, extortion, and other war crimes. Last week, the network aired dramatic footage showing journalist Clarissa Ward and her team helping a man escape from a secret detention facility in Damascus. However, …

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CNN faces backlash over ‘staged’ Syrian prisoner rescue report
6 days, 19 hours ago

CNN faces backlash over ‘staged’ Syrian prisoner rescue report

Al Jazeera  

Criticism mounts as US news channel backtracks on identity of Syrian prisoner who provided a false name and worked as an intelligence officer in the Assad regime. The video, aired on Thursday, shows CNN’s Clarissa Ward and her team, accompanied by an opposition fighter, reporting from a secret prison in the capital, Damascus, and stumbling upon a “hidden prisoner”. Heads …

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Syria: Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say
1 week ago

Syria: Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say

CNN  

CNN — A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime, according to local residents, and not an ordinary citizen who had been imprisoned, as he had claimed. An image obtained by CNN on Monday now points to the man’s real identity – said …

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California legal weed industry in tumult over pesticides in pot
3 months ago

California legal weed industry in tumult over pesticides in pot

LA Times  

Nicole Elliott, right, Gov. She said The Times reporting of unaddressed pesticide contamination “created an urgency and momentum.” Those concerns were underscored earlier this month when the former laboratory division chief of the Department of Cannabis Control — whose sudden departure was previously reported by The Times — filed a civil lawsuit alleging the agency’s director had long ignored allegations …

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At least 25 killed in Israeli attacks on schools in Gaza City: sources
4 months, 2 weeks ago

At least 25 killed in Israeli attacks on schools in Gaza City: sources

China Daily  

People search for casualties at a school damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Aug 4, 2024. GAZA - At least 25 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes on the schools of al-Nasr and Hassan Salama in Gaza City, Palestinian security and medical sources said Sunday. Medical sources told Xinhua that at least 25 Palestinians were killed and dozens of …

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Israel may have finally killed its most wanted man after seven attempts but proof of Mohammed Deif's demise may be elusive
5 months ago

Israel may have finally killed its most wanted man after seven attempts but proof of Mohammed Deif's demise may be elusive

ABC  

The shadowy Hamas military commander in Gaza known as The Guest has dodged seven Israeli assassination attempts during decades atop its most wanted list. Throughout the war, the Israeli Defense Forces has reportedly distributed flyers across Gaza offering rewards upwards of $US100,000 for information on the whereabouts of senior Hamas figures, including Deif. Palestinians marched during the funeral of Mohammed …

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Cultural treasure or painful reminder? Libya’s colonial architecture
5 months, 1 week ago

Cultural treasure or painful reminder? Libya’s colonial architecture

Al Jazeera  

Residents of Tripoli and Benghazi are divided about what should be done with their Italian colonial heritage. “It was also a moment of liberation, where starting from scratch was an existential necessity.” However, he believes that a number of governmental initiatives to restore and renovate some buildings have been undertaken randomly and superficially: “There is no critical understanding of problematic …

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Israeli strike targets Hamas military commander and kills at least 90 in southern Gaza
5 months, 1 week ago

Israeli strike targets Hamas military commander and kills at least 90 in southern Gaza

LA Times  

Israel said it targeted Hamas’ elusive military commander in a massive strike Saturday in a designated safe zone in southern Gaza that killed at least 90 people including children, according to local health officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “there still isn’t absolute certainty” that Mohammed Deif and a second Hamas commander, Rafa Salama, were killed. Hamas rejected the …

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‘Double attack’: The curse of natural gas and armed groups in Mozambique
6 months, 1 week ago

‘Double attack’: The curse of natural gas and armed groups in Mozambique

Al Jazeera  

Palma, Mozambique – It was late afternoon and darkness was approaching when Awa Salama* heard pops of gunfire and explosions: The fighters were coming. Together, the LNG project and conflict are a “double attack” on the livelihoods of people like Salama, said Julio Bicheche of the Farmers Union Cabo Delgado. They added that TotalEnergies “fails to accurately assess the potential …

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Gaza baby girl saved from dead mother’s womb dies in incubator
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Gaza baby girl saved from dead mother’s womb dies in incubator

Al Jazeera  

Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda dies just days after her mother, father and sister were killed in Israel attack on Rafah. A premature Palestinian baby, who was saved from her mother’s womb after she was killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, has died after days in an incubator. Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday after …

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Gaza war reminds Vietnam of liberation struggle once shared with Palestine
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Gaza war reminds Vietnam of liberation struggle once shared with Palestine

Al Jazeera  

Le Hong Hiep, a senior fellow and coordinator of the Vietnam Studies Programme at Singapore’s ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, described Vietnam’s support for the Palestinian people and their struggle for liberation as “unwavering” during the Cold War and into the 1990s. Saadi Salama, the Palestinian ambassador in Vietnam, said local media bear a large degree of responsibility for a lack of …

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Lalita Panicker picks her favourite reads of 2023
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Lalita Panicker picks her favourite reads of 2023

Hindustan Times  

The question of Palestine is likely to be on the minds of many readers as the year draws to a close and I am sure many would have read the seminal work on this by the incomparable academic/activist Edward Said. Though written over 16 years ago, this meticulously researched book by Roy, the child of Holocaust survivors, provides a deep …

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Comic Relief chief Eric Salama quits over charity's Gaza ceasefire stance which he thought was 'profoundly wrong' and that he 'could not live with'
1 year ago

Comic Relief chief Eric Salama quits over charity's Gaza ceasefire stance which he thought was 'profoundly wrong' and that he 'could not live with'

Daily Mail  

Comic Relief was thrown into chaos last night after its boss Eric Salama quit over the charity's stance on Gaza. Comic Relief was thrown into chaos last night after its boss Eric Salama quit over the charity's stance on Gaza A Palestinian youth sits next to his bicycle amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, hours after Friday's …

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How a California-born writer unveiled the tragedy of Palestine through one grieving father
1 year, 2 months ago

How a California-born writer unveiled the tragedy of Palestine through one grieving father

LA Times  

On the Shelf A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy By Nathan Thrall Metropolitan: 272 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “It’s a strange coincidence given the subject of my new book,” says Thrall, speaking by video …

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The writers retelling Libya’s history through a feminist lens
2 years, 3 months ago

The writers retelling Libya’s history through a feminist lens

Al Jazeera  

Hawwa – the Arabic name for Eve – is a young adolescent in 1960s rural Benghazi. “Bin Shatwan’s descriptions of female writers specifically being subject to societal censorship in Libya suggests a woman writing is a revolutionary act,” writes journalist Orna Herr in the global literary magazine, Index on Censorship. It was autobiographical, she said, “I had a desire to …

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Journalist fleshes out White House state dinner scoop involving Scott Morrison and Brian Houston
3 years, 4 months ago

Journalist fleshes out White House state dinner scoop involving Scott Morrison and Brian Houston

ABC  

The US journalist who broke the story of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's involvement in trying to secure an invitation to a 2019 White House dinner for Hillsong founder Brian Houston says sources described a "sphere of bad news" and "scandal" surrounding the controversial pastor. Key points: Scott Morrison wanted to invite Hillsong leader Brian Houston to a state dinner at …

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‘Jewel of a man’: Remembering the COVID dead
4 years, 2 months ago

‘Jewel of a man’: Remembering the COVID dead

Al Jazeera  

Wuhan reported its first death from the coronavirus in January 2020. They include a doctor in the Philippines who could have had a comfortable life in the capital but instead opted to work in one of the archipelago’s most remote provinces, a Melbourne bus driver with a passion for fun and cricket, an Indonesian tax consultant who sewed her daughter’s …

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