Sudan agrees to free US journalist
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The president of Sudan agreed to release American journalist Paul Salopek today after meeting with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a spokesman for the governor said.
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Sudan has arrested two suspects in connection with the killings of a U.S. aid official and his driver in the capital Khartoum six weeks ago, state media reported on Sunday.
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American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges.
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The body of a Sudan newspaper editor who had been accused of insulting Islam was recovered Wednesday, a day after he was kidnaped by gunmen, officials said.
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A US citizen held prisoner since his capture by US forces in Afghanistan in 2001 is due to be sent to Saudi Arabia as part of a deal securing his release.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was released in Gaza City early Wednesday after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his extremist abductors.
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A U.S. citizen held since late 2001 as an enemy combatant is to be sent to Saudi Arabia by Thursday under an agreement to release him that was made public Monday.
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CNN producer Riad Ali Ghanem, who was kidnapped at gunpoint in Gaza City on Monday, was released on Tuesday evening following an agreement reached between his abductors and the Palestinian Authority.
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Following the arrest for espionage of a high profile US journalist in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the State Department warned media against trying to visit the area without Khartoum's permission.
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The UK is looking into reports saying the abducted BBC reporter, Alan Johnston, will be freed on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD: The US military freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on Thursday in a gesture that could help the interim governmentâs efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections in January.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A Shiite official says a kidnapped American journalist in Iraq has been released. The kidnappers had threatened Thursday to kill Micah Garen, of New York, within 48 hours if US troops did not leave Najaf.
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Negotiators have struck a deal to release two CBS News journalists missing, believed kidnapped, in Iraq and they could be free in hours, a leading Shi'ite militia group and the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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American journalist Paul Salopek said he believes his arrest in Sudan was intended to be a message from that nation's government to foreign journalists to tone down their criticism of conditions in the African nation.
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A Sudanese newspaper editor who was   kidnapped by unknown armed men was found beheaded on Wednesday,   a day after he was reported snatched from outside his home in   the capital Khartoum, an Interior Ministry source said.
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Text of report in English by independent USAID-funded Sudan Radio Service on 12 December  The minister of information in the government of Western Equatoria [State, southern Sudan] says that his state will allow the media to operate freely.