Word: journaliste
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...George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later.'" Veronica Lario, the second wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, doesn't always play along with the idyllic family image her husband likes to project. Asked by a journalist if she saw and spoke to her busy husband often, Lario, who admits to voting for the opposition, replied, "Yes, I not only speak to him on the telephone, sometimes I see him on television...
When Samir Kassir, a leading Lebanese journalist, met with friends in Beirut for dinner last week, he was in a buoyant mood. Syria had withdrawn its troops from Lebanon, and a series of parliamentary elections that began on May 29 were set to result in a new government led by the anti-Syrian opposition. "Samir was very happy. He was telling us it was a new era for democracy in the region," says Malek Mrowa, a businessman and friend of Kassir's. The next morning, the 45-year-old Kassir, a university lecturer and columnist for Lebanon's An-Nahar...
...says the bomb missed, resulting in the escape of the high value target, who he suspects was Tur Yuldashev, the head of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and a highly experienced commander. But a recently published book about the operation, written by respected US Army Times journalist Sean Naylor, has suggested the target was Al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's personal physician and al-Qaeda's second in command. The overall commander of the operation, Major General Franklin "Buster" Hagenbeck, recently told Time he believed the high-value target had been destroyed...
...China. And the Guimet show acknowledges the back-and-forth influences between peninsular Korea and island Japan, especially after the fall of China's Ming dynasty in 1644. But Japanese screens were mainly intended to remain stationary, while those in Korea were designed to be portable. As the French journalist-diplomat Georges Ducrocq wrote 100 years ago, "When they cannot enjoy the countryside, the Koreans have their screens to provide them with the illusion of it." And though people in 21st century Paris can't go back to the kingdom of Choson, they have the Guimet exhibition to gain...
...Jazeera with anti-Western sentiment." It doesn't help things that al-Jazeera's star correspondent, Tayseer Alouni, is on trial in Madrid on charges of being an al-Qaeda operative. Al-Jazeera is standing by its reporter, saying his contacts were consistent with his work as a journalist who covered bin Laden's organization...