Journalist deaths jumped by 50% in 2022, mostly fueled by increases in Ukraine, Mexico and Haiti, report says

The number of journalists killed last year was 50% higher than in 2021, mostly occuring in Haiti, Ukraine and Mexico, a new report said Tuesday. Last year marked the deadliest for journalists since 2018, with 67 or more news media workers killed, the …

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Kshama Sawant: Lost opportunity

Re: “Seattle’s Kshama Sawant was a tale for our time, but the story fizzled” [Jan. 21, Local News]: Danny Westneat’s take on Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant’s work was spot-on, an apt summation of opportunity coming to grief on the shoals of h…

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Rupert Murdoch calls off proposed Fox-News Corp merger

Billionaire mogul says in letter that proposal to reunite companies he split up a decade ago ‘not optimal’ for shareholdersFox Corp said on Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch had scrapped a proposal to combine the company with News Corp, in a deal that would …

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Not a ‘magic bullet’: military experts weigh in on how western tanks could help Ukraine’s defence

As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, the focus is increasingly on the need to provide Kyiv with Western tanks. While thousands of the armoured vehicles have been destroyed on both sides, Ukraine overwhelmingly uses older Soviet-era tanks, and is gradu…

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