MANILA — A helicopter carrying the Philippines’ national police chief crashed outside Manila on Thursday morning, injuring him, three other generals and four others aboard. The helicopter carrying the chief, Gen.... Chit Gaorin, a regional police spokeswoman.“ Based on the witnesses, the chopper was already above ground when it hit the cables, ” Colonel Gaorin said, adding that there were eight people on board, including the national police force’s spokesman, Brig.... Two other generals were u

A journalist was killed in Tijuana on Sunday, the local prosecutor said, the second media worker murdered in less than a week in the northern Mexican border city. Lourdes Maldonado Lopez was “ attacked with a firearm while she was in a vehicle, ” said the Baja California state prosecutor's office. Mexico is one of the world's deadliest countries for reporters. Media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders regularly ranks it alongside Afghanistan and Yemen among the world's most dangerous place

MEXICO CITY( Reuters)-A Mexican photojournalist died after being shot in the head outside his home in the northern border city of Tijuana, officials said on Monday. Margarito Martinez, 49, worked for more than a decade in Tijuana for several national and international news outlets covering the gang crime and violence that has scarred the city, which sits on U.S.-Mexico border opposite San Diego.... Tijuana has become one of Mexico's most violent cities due to conflicts among drug gangs caught i

A Mexican photojournalist died after being shot in the head outside his home in the northern border city of Tijuana, officials said on Monday. Margarito Martinez, 49, worked for more than a decade in Tijuana for several national and international news outlets covering the gang crime and violence that has scarred the city, which sits on US-Mexico border opposite San Diego. The Attorney General’s office in the Tijuana’s home state of Baja California said officials who responded to a 911 call aroun

TIJUANA— A Tijuana journalist who covered crime and security issues in the border city was shot to death Monday outside his home as he left for work.... Margarito Martínez Esquivel, who worked as a journalist and “ fixer ” assisting international outlets including the BBC, as well as for the San Diego Union-Tribune and Los Angeles Times, was shot three times, according to his wife, Elena.... “ Unfortunately, I couldn’t do anything for him, ” said Elena Martínez, crying outside the family’s hom

Her interests include biodiversity loss, Arctic science, the cryosphere, international climate diplomacy, climate change and public health, and human-wildlife conflict.... Dickie was a 2022 finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in the international reporting category for her climate reporting from Svalbard.... She is also an author at W.W. Norton....

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Shock. That’s what Ruth Simmons, the president of a historically Black university in Texas, felt in December when she received a call informing her that the school would be gifted$ 50 million — many times the size of the previous largest contribution it has received.... Simmons, who leads Prairie View AM University, thought she misheard the caller, so she asked for the amount to be repeated: “ Five-Zero.” The donor this time was MacKenzie Scott, who has reset the philanthropic agenda for racial

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for January 28 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... He said that his government guarantees free speech but" very few journalists, women and men, are fulfilling their noble duty to inform.... Most are looking to see how we fail." According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, since the current administration began on Dec....

MEXICO CITY— Another journalist was shot to death in Mexico on Tuesday, the eighth murdered so far this year in an unprecedented spate of killings that has made Mexico the most dangerous place in the world for the press.... Prosecutors in the western state of Michoacán said reporter Armando Linares was shot to death at a home in the town of Zitacuaro.... It was Linares who announced Toledo’s death Jan....