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• Web startup to offer foreign news as papers cut
NEW YORK - As budget cuts force many U.S. newspapers to retrench on their foreign coverage, veteran journalist Charles Sennott saw virtually no chance of getting another assignment abroad. So Sennott left The Boston Globe to start his own news ...
• Somali kidnappers release 2 foreign journalists
British reporter Colin Freeman of The Sunday Telegraph, right, and Spanish freelance photographer Jose Cendon, sit Sunday in their hotel room in the semiautonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia. MOGADISHU, Somalia - Two foreign journalists ...
• Obama names intel picks, vows no torture
He worked closely with foreign partners to target the Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia and Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, offensives that crippled both terror groups. East Timor a factor But Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he plans to question Blair about ...
• Probe Israel for shelling Gaza site, U.N. says
Palestinian journalists have not risked visiting the site where fighting continues, and Israel has not allowed foreign reporters into Gaza. On Monday, the AP interviewed survivor Salah Samouni at the hospital. He said the family had been ordered to go ...
• Biden holds talks with Pakistani leaders
Lindsey Graham met with President Asif Ali Zadari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, aides said. The bipartisan pair also discussed counterterrorism, counterinsurgency and the economy with interior adviser ...