5 h. ago Palestinian reporters have paid a terrible price in another horrific year for journalist killings | Jane Martinson

The Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif was the most prominent name among so many targeted for simply bearing witness to the truthIn January this year, Anas al-Sharif was filmed being lifted into the air after taking off his helmet and flak jacket to celebrate a ceasefire that would prove all too temporary in Gaza. This summer, the Palestinian journalist broke down while reporting on starvation in his home town that is now a war zone. A bystander told him: “Persist, Anas, you are our voice”.But al-Sharif’s popularity in Gaza made him a target. In July, international agencies warned of the danger he was in as the Israel Defense Forces stepped up online attacks, falsely labelling him a Hamas terrorist. His employer, Al Jazeera, insisted he restrict his reporting to the more protected al-Shifa hospital after his father and many colleagues were killed. In August, a few months short of his 29th birthday, al-Sharif and six others were killed in a direct attack on a media tent next to the h...

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5 d. ago Trump’s $10bn attack on the BBC doesn’t have to make sense. In his absurd world, he has already won | Jane Martinson

The legal action has made news and it will do damage. A potential disaster for the corporation and the UK, but a good day’s work for this presidentLove Actually may be a terrible movie, but it provides one speech that’s hard not to wish into reality this Christmas. Keir Starmer, the actual, nonfictional UK prime minister, needs to channel the one played by Hugh Grant – and stand up to an absurd US president now bullying the BBC with a $10bn lawsuit.Just imagine for one moment that Starmer decided to make Donald Trump’s claim against the BBC the final straw for a special relationship that is increasingly special only in a bad way. That would not be outlandish, for not only has Trump taken aim against a British broadcaster, but earlier this week it seemed that his promise of an AI “prosperity deal” (bought, let’s not forget, with gurning invites to Windsor Castle) is set to evaporate. As the fictional Love Actually PM once said: “A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend Since bul...

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9 d. ago I've spent 40 years debunking climate crisis hysteria. We've paid a terrible price for pandering to eco zealots

To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent Cop30 summit in Belem, Brazil - or at Harvard and on CNN - but elsewhere it's dead.

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9 d. ago She spent years trying to uncover a serial killer’s motive. Then she got too close

Exclusive video: Journalist Laura Greenberg started corresponding with serial killer Doug Gretzler when he was on death row because she “wanted to understand the monster”. But then things got murky. Andrea Cavallier reports

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2 w. ago Putin's 'secret daughter' says she's 'really sorry' for dictator dad's war in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin's 22-year-old 'love child' was stopped by a heartbroken Ukrainian journalist whose brother was killed fighting against the evil dictator

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2 w. ago Putin’s ‘secret daughter’ confronted by Ukrainian whose brother was killed by Russia

A woman rumoured to be Vladimir Putin’s secret daughter was confronted by a Ukrainian journalist who said his brother was recently killed during the war.

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2 w. ago Putin's daughter says she's 'really sorry' about her father's war as she is confronted by Ukrainian who found her in Paris after his brother was killed by Russia

The dictator's love child was confronted in Paris by a Ukrainian journalist whose brother was recently killed by the dictator's missile.

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2 w. ago Graham Price: Wales' big problem is obvious and it must be fixed

Wales legend Graham Price was a horrified observer as the autumn campaign finished in grim fashion

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3 w. ago Hundreds of Israeli soldiers raid Palestinian town in West Bank

Israeli military and security service say ‘broad counter-terrorism operation’ in Tubas to continue for several daysHundreds of Israeli soldiers supported by armoured vehicles have conducted raids in the Palestinian town of Tubas near Nablus in the biggest such military deployment by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza last month.Palestinian media reported that a curfew was imposed on Tuesday night on Tubas and some neighbouring communities, roads were closed by earthen barriers and families forced from their homes to allow Israeli forces to use the buildings. Continue reading...

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