Free Press Endures Amid Global Violence and Press Attacks
The year 2016 saw 74 journalists killed worldwide, with many victims deliberately targeted in war zones like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen. The piece notes restraint by leaders, cites Donald Trump’s clashes with media, and argues for protecting professional and citizen journalists to preserve accurate reporting.
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America
Reporters Without Borders
Mariam Ebrahimi
Mehri Azizi
Zainab Mirzaee
Kabul
Afghanistan
David Gilkey
National Public Radio
Osama Jumaa
Aleppo
Syria
United States
Donald Trump
Trump
Barack Obama
Vladimir Putin
Iran
Russia
Iraq
Turkey
China
Mexico
DEC presses for wider Hudson cleanup and EPA oversight
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation seeks broader testing and action to clean up decades of cancer causing PCBs dumped by General Electric in the Hudson River near Troy. DEC calls on the EPA to finish the job and hold GE accountable, urging federal leadership if EPA stalls, while questioning Gov Cuomo's past approach and recent resolve.
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Hudson River
New York Department of Environmental Conservation
Troy
DEC
New York City
Environmental Protection Agency
Newso Tk
Hudson
EPA
General Electric
Connecticut
New York
Massachusetts
Basil Seggos
Notable December 30 historical highlights from history
Highlights list events and figures linked to December 30 across years. Rasputin’s 1916 murder, the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, Kipling’s birth, Lenin’s 1922 USSR founding, UAW sit down in 1936, Sullivan Award 1954, Marcos 1965, 1989 security after threat to Northwest Airlines, 1994 clinic shootings, George Harrison knife incident, Saddam Hussein 2006, Ford state funeral, James Brown farewell, Gerald Wash Washington death, Bill Cosby 2015 charges.
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United States
Mexico
U.S
Gadsden
Rudyard Kipling
Bombay
India
Vladimir I. Lenin
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Fisher
Flint
Michigan
Marvin G. Whitfield
James E. Sullivan
Ferdinand Marcos
Philippines
Northwest Airlines
Paris
Detroit
Boston
John C. Salvill
George Harrison
London
Michael Abram
Saddam Hussein
U.S. Capitol
Gerald R. Ford
James Brown
Augusta
Georgia
Gerald “Wash
Washington
Westlake
Louisiana
Bill Cosby
Philadelphia
Aew
America
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Kirsten Gillibrand Hart
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Washington, D.C
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Richard Hanna
John Katko
Cannon House
W. Oneida St
E. S
Oswego
N.Y
Robert Oaks
Will Barclay
N. Second St
Albany
Fulton
The
Oswego CountyNewsNow.com
New York Publishers Asso
First St
Andrew Poole
Palltimes.com
Mike LeBoeuf
Mieboeuf
Palitimes
Palitimes.com
Oswego Palladium-Times
USPS
Tor
Palladium Times
West Street
Associated Press
Grigory Rasputin
Nicholas II
St. Petersburg
H.H. Munro
Saki
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