Journalist Critical of Chechen War Is Shot Dead
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A veteran Russian journalist and author who made her name as a searing critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was found dead on Saturday.
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A British journalist covering the war in Iraq was shot in the head by US troops as he was driven away from a gunfight, a colleague of the dead reporter has said, citing witnesses.
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A Jordanian who commanded foreign mercenaries in Chechnya and was reportedly al-Qaida's top emissary in the troubled North Caucasus died Sunday in a shootout with police, security officials said.
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the Kremlin's actions in Chechnya, is found dead.
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Gunmen ambushed two German journalists traveling in northern Afghanistan on Saturday killing them both, Afghan officials said.
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A journalist in Afghanistan is sentenced to death for distributing blasphemous material.
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Controversial Dutch film maker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, who made a film about violence against women in Islamic societies, was shot dead in Amsterdam, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
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Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday allegedly acting on a tip from within his network and dealing a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Islam-inspired insurgency throughout southern Russia.
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Unknown assailants shot and wounded an investigative journalist from Kosovo's leading daily newspaper, a police official said Friday.
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An unidentified gunman fatally shot the editor of a weekly newspaper in the southern Philippines, police said Monday, the latest in a string of killings of journalists.
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was found shot dead on Saturday outside her apartment block in central Moscow, Interfax and other Russian news agencies reported.
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Moscow police have arrested two Chechens they suspect of involvement in the murder of an American journalist who wrote about Russia's richest people and had also written a book on war and crime in Chechnya.
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya,  an outspoken critic of the war in rebel Chechnya, was found  shot dead on Saturday at her apartment block in central Moscow,  news agencies reported.
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Alisher Saipov, an Uzbek journalist critical of President Karimov, is shot dead in the Kyrgyz town of Osh.
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MOSCOW -- A military correspondent for Russia's top business daily who had at times reported critically on government projects died Friday after falling from a fifth-story window.
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Several people were killed and a few others wounded when rebels attacked a police station in the capital of Russia&#39;s breakaway Chechen republic on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported, citing officials.
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Burundi security forces shot dead a Russian diplomat on Saturday after he drove through a checkpoint, an army spokesman said.