Four Mexican journalists abducted on Monday afternoon in the city of Gómez Palacio remain in the custody of a group of gunmen, according to news reports on Thursday. Gómez Palacio is located in the northern state of Durango, a region wracked by a brutal turf war between the Zetas and Sinaloa drug cartels. The four […]

The U.S State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to noted independent Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. Morris will now be able to travel to Harvard University to take up a year-long Nieman Foundation fellowship. The journalist, who is well-known as a vocal critic of Columbia’s outgoing president Alvaro Uribe and his administration, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the release of three journalists in Ivory Coast who were arrested last week on charges of stealing confidential documents after they reported on a corruption scandal in the small West African country. On Monday, a judge ordered Theophile Kouame, Stephane Guede and Saint Clavier Oula to pay a symbolic […]

A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle in front of the Baghdad bureau of Al-Arabiya TV on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding at least sixteen others, media reports said. Three security guards and a female cleaner were reportedly among the dead. The suicide bomber, who was driving a white minivan, managed […]