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Skinny as a beanpole, generous to an extreme and with an easy laugh, Sultan M. Munadi was an Afghan striver.
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Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter held captive by militants in northern Afghanistan, was freed in a military commando raid early Wednesday, but his Afghan interpreter, a British commando and an Afghan woman were killed in the raid.
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A French-Spanish film-maker who made a documentary about gang life in El Salvador has been shot dead there, officials say.
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MOSCOW — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday canceled the retrial of four men accused of involvement in the murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ordered prosecutors to begin a new investigation.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — For the family of José Sarney, Brazil’s Senate president, the daily onslaught of newspaper reports about nepotism and corruption accusations against him was too much to bear.
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WASHINGTON — Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars and Stripes has obtained documents that prove that reporters’ coverage is being graded as “positive,” “neutral” or “negative.”
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XIAOLIN, Taiwan, 13 August 2009 -- David Coffey and Johnson Lai (AP videojournalist) upload footage from Xiaolin using satellite uplink. At least 200 Xiaolin residents were buried by the largest landslides Taiwan has seen in 50 years. David is the first-ever recipient of the American University-Associated Press Foreign Internship Award. Photo by Wally Santana (AP). He filed a dispatch on his internship.
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SOC grad student David Coffey shot this story for the Associated Press in a park in Bangkok, Thailand. David is the first-ever recipient of the American University-Associated Press Foreign Internship Award. The story has been distributed around the world.
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SEOUL, South Korea — Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists released after nearly five months in North Korean custody, have been widely portrayed at home as victims of unduly harsh punishment by a repressive government for simply doing their job. But here in South Korea, human rights advocates, bloggers and Christian pastors are accusing them of needlessly endangering the very people they tried to cover.

David Coffey spent part of August covering the aftermath of deadly Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan. He is seen in this picture filming Taiwanese military returning from emergency roadwork on one of the many washed-out roads leading to Hsin Fa. David is the first-ever recipient of the American University-Associated Press Foreign Internship Award. (Aug. 13, 2009) Photo by Wally Santana (AP)