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Morocco Accused Over Coverage of Rif Protests

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Saturday accused the Moroccan authorities of hindering coverage of...

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Parents of US Reporter Missing In Syria Urge Captors To Reach Out

The parents of Austin Tice, a freelance reporter who went missing in Syria nearly five years ago, urged their son's...

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Afghanistan Enacts Law To Control Cyberspace

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by...

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Freed Chinese Intellectual Spoke Out For Change

Liu Xiaobo, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize from behind bars, was for decades a vocal champion of democracy and...

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Journalist With French TV Dies of Wounds From Mosul Blast

Journalist Veronique Robert, wounded in the same landmine blast that killed two colleagues in the Iraqi city of Mosul...

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French TV Journalist Dies of Wounds From Mosul Blast

Journalist Veronique Robert, wounded in the same landmine blast that killed two colleagues in the Iraqi city of Mosul...

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A Deadly City In A Dangerous Country

The death of two journalists in Mosul has highlighted once more the particular dangers of covering the battle to...

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Egypt Blocks More Internet Sites

Egypt, under fire for muzzling freedom of expression, has blocked access to around 60 news websites and service...

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Sisi’s Egypt Cracks Down On News Websites

Egypt's government, already accused of muzzling freedom of expression and opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,...

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South Sudan ‘suspends’ Al Jazeera English

South Sudan's government has banned Al Jazeera English staff from working in the country, press freedom organisation...

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11 Journalists Killed In Iraq In Past Year

Eleven journalists died covering conflict or were assassinated in Iraq during the past year, a Baghdad-based watchdog...

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Journalists ‘suffocating’ In Magufuli’s Tanzania

Press freedom in Tanzania is being squeezed under President John Magufuli, leaving journalists fearful. France-based...

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Alarm Over Worsening Press Freedom In Tunisia

Tunisian and international non-governmental organisations warned Tuesday of deteriorating freedom of the press in a...

International

Media Freedom In Africa ‘not Great’

Media watchdogs are voicing concern about curbs on press freedom. DW looks at the media in Africa where restrictions...

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Global Press Freedom At 13-Year Low

Global press freedom has hit a 13-year low, threatened by US President Donald Trump's media bashing and restrictions...

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Media ‘never Under So Much Threat’, Says Watchdog

Press freedom has never been as threatened as it is now, in the "new post-truth era of fake news" after the election of...

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Rights Group Slams Yemen Journalist’s Death Sentence

Reporters Without Borders said Friday it was "appalled" at a death sentence handed to a veteran journalist by a court...

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Rights Group Slams Yemen Journalist’s Death Sentence

Reporters Without Borders said Friday it was "appalled" at a death sentence handed to a veteran journalist by a court...

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Reporters Without Borders Opens First Asia Office In Taiwan

International rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders said it is opening its first Asia office in Taiwan after...