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Worn Fairfax journalist Michael Gordon dies aged sixty two

Updated February 03, 2018 19:23:04 Photo: Michael Gordon at work in Parliament House (Supplied: The Age/Fairfax) Veteran Fairfax journalist Michael Gordon has died at the age of 62. Key points: Gordon won a Walkley Award in 2017 for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism He suffered from a heart attack while taking part in an ocean…

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UN: Egypt’s imprisonment of Mahmoud Hussein ‘arbitrary’

A UN body has ruled the detention of an Al Jazeera journalist held by Egyptian authorities for more than one year as « arbitrary ». The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) also demanded the immediate release of Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian native who worked for Al Jazeera Arabic. The 55-year-old was arrested in…

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Padmaavat banned over film’s depiction of Muslim ruler

Malaysia has banned a controversial Bollywood film, citing its negative portrayal of a Muslim ruler. The release of Padmaavat has already caused mayhem in India. The 14th century period drama focuses on the tale of Muslim King Alauddin Khilji, Rajput ruler Ratan Singh, and Hindu queen Padmavati. Hindu groups in India alleged the film distorts history by…

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US stocks undergo kindly day-to-day loss of Trump technology

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The ‘King of Kong’ will be stripped of his high rating

Billy Mitchell is known to video game fans as the King of Kong, a title made world-famous by the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters about the race for the Donkey Kong world record. Mitchell’s 1982 score of 874,300 points reigned for 18 years until Tim Sczerby passed it by with 879,200…

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Sanktionen: Nordkorea verdient Millionen mit Rüstungsgeschäften

Nordkorea hat unter Missachtung der UN-Sanktionen laut Einschätzung von Experten Millionen Dollar verdient. Durch eine verbotene Zusammenarbeit mit Syrien und Myanmar bei ballistischen Raketen habe das Land allein in neun Monaten im vergangenen Jahr 200 Millionen Dollar durch illegale Exporte eingenommen, schreiben Experten der Vereinten Nationen in einem Bericht an den Weltsicherheitsrat. Nordkorea sei Syrien…

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Striking Kenya’s media shutdown in context

On Tuesday, December 30, the Kenyan government took the unprecedented step of shutting down three of the largest television stations in the country. At KTN, the first independent station in Kenya, the signal was merely switched off. But at Citizen Television and NTV, officials of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) allegedly went to one…

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What Trump did not disclose about international policy

As former speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neill once said, « all politics is local ». United States President Donald Trump adhered to this motto when he delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, reserving approximately 80 percent of his 90-minute-long speech for domestic policy issues. He focused specifically on the Tax…