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Reuters reporter insists Myanmar police planted ‘secret’ papers

  YANGON: A jailed Reuters reporter told a court in Myanmar on Monday that documents he is accused of breaking state secrets laws to obtain...

Myanmar police insisted on meeting, gave documents: Reuters reporter

YANGON: A Reuters reporter accused of obtaining secret state documents in Myanmar told a court on Monday a policeman had called him on the...

Myanmar court presses secrets act charges against Reuters reporters

YANGON: A court in Myanmar on Monday charged two jailed Reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents, moving the landmark press freedom case into...

NYT, New Yorker win Pulitzer for #MeToo

NEW YORK: The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for explosive reporting that brought down Harvey...

Myanmar genocide report brings calls for independent probe

MYANMAR: A Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar prompted a demand from Washington for a credible probe into the bloodshed...

Reuters reporters arrested appear in Myanmar court

YANGON: Two Reuters journalists accused of violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act appeared in court on Tuesday, with prosecutors due to present more witnesses to...

Tests link Syrian govt stockpile to largest sarin attack

THE HAGUE: The Syrian government’s chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent...

Police charged Reuters reporters with ‘Secrets Act’ hour after their arrest

YANGON: Myanmar police sought permission from the nation’s president to go ahead with an investigation into whether two Reuters journalists had breached the Official...

Sudan authorities arrest Reuters, AFP journalists in Khartoum

KHARTOUM: Sudanese authorities have detained a Reuters stringer and an AFP reporter who were covering protests in the capital Khartoum, the country’s external information...

Myanmar police charge Reuters reporters under Official Secrets Act

YANGON: Two Reuters journalists were formally charged by police in a Myanmar court Wednesday for breaching a colonial-era secrecy law that carries up to 14...

Bill Clinton, EU call for release of Reuters journalists in Myanmar

WASHINGTON: Former US President Bill Clinton and the European Union’s envoy to Myanmar on Monday called for the immediate release of two Reuters journalists...

Two journalists arrested in Myanmar, face official secrets charges

YANGON: Myanmar’s government said on Wednesday that police had arrested two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. The reporters had been working on stories...