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JOURNALISTS’ GROUP URGES U.S. TO PRESSURE INDIA ON MEDIA CRACKDOWN AHEAD OF MODI VISIT.

The Committee to Protect Journalists on Wednesday called on the U.S. government to urge India to end a media crackdown and release six detained journalists. A statement from CPJ President Jodie Ginsberg ahead of a state visit to Washington next week by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there had …

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Tory Peer Lord Rami Ranger ‘Bullied and Harassed’ Journalist Poonam Joshi, Lords Commissioner finds

The well-known British Asian peer and Tory donor Rami Ranger has been asked to apologize and attend a behavioural course after he was found by the House of Lords Standards Commissioner to have bullied and harassed the London-based female journalist Poonam Joshi. The Standards Commissioner Akbar Khan KC, in a …

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UK joins US, Canada in banning TikTok on govt devices over spying fears.

The British government has joined those of the United States, and Canada in banning the Chinese-owned video app TikTok on government phones with immediate effect over concerns that the app passes user information to the Chinese government. “The security of sensitive government information must come first, so today we are banning …

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