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FILE - Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets during the Gaza war, poses for a portrait in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
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Leaders of major media companies are urging Israel to lift a ban preventing foreign journalists from independently entering Gaza. This restriction has been in place since the war began in October 2023. The executives released a statement Thursday emphasizing the importance of on-the-ground reporting for questioning official accounts and speaking directly with civilians. Despite a ceasefire and reduced fighting, Israel has not responded to discussions about lifting the ban. Initially, Israel said the ban was necessary because foreign journalists allowed into Gaza could give away the positions of Israeli soldiers and endanger them.
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The Supreme Court is siding with a faith-based pregnancy center that raised First Amendment concerns about an investigation into whether it misled people to discourage abortions. The high court’s ruling Wednesday is a procedural victory for First Choice Women’s Resource Centers. It's challenging a New Jersey probe of its practices. The conservative-majority court has given abortion opponents high-profile wins in recent years, most notably the watershed case that overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022.  First Choice had also drawn support from the American Civil Liberties Union, which supports abortion rights but backed the group’s First Amendment concerns.
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Supreme Court sides with anti-abortion pregnancy center raising First Amendment concerns about state investigation.
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Officials say prominent journalist Andrzej Poczobut has been released from jail in Belarus in a swap with Poland that also saw a total of 10 people freed as the authoritarian leader of Belarus seeks improved relations with the West. Poczobut, a correspondent for the influential Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and a leading figure among Belarus’ Polish minority, was serving eight years in prison in a case condemned as politically motivated. His 2021 arrest drew criticism and he was later awarded the European Union’s most prestigious human rights award, the Sakharov Prize. The swap is the latest in a series of U.S.-negotiated prisoner releases that have marked stronger relations between Washington and Minsk.
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FILE - Renowned Indian photographer Raghu Rai receives an award at the National Awards for Excellence in Journalism, in New Delhi, India, Nov. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)
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A man holds a portrait of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday, alongside an Israeli flag and a boot during a small gathering in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Photographer and video journalist Zeinab Faraj, who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague this week, recovers in al-Zahraa hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Bassam Hatoum)
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FILE - Zainab, the sister of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, who was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike, hugs her helmet as she mourns over her coffin in the village of Baysariyeh, southern Lebanon, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)