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Raffaella Iacovella

Stories By Raffaella Iacovella
After Irish yes, Italy eyes gay unions
By  • 11 June 2015
Lawmakers lag public opinion in country with no civil unions, same-sex marriage After Irish voters overwhelmingly approved same-sex marriage last month, the next battleground in Europe is clear: Italy. Seventeen years after the Netherlands legitimized…
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Singapore teenager who criticized ex-president awaits verdict
By  • 11 May 2015
[caption id="attachment_5179" align="alignright" width="207"] Amos Yee arriving in court, April 17, 2015. (EPA/The Straits Times)[/caption] A Singaporean teenager who criticized the country's former premier in a profanity-laced online video entitled "Lee Kuan Yew is finally…
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Slovenia drops 'state secrets' charge against reporter
By  • 20 April 2015
Slovenia has dropped charges against an investigative journalist who reported on links between members of a mainstream political party in the Balkan country and a European neo-Nazi group. Anuska Delic, a reporter for the country's…
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Ethiopia's jailed journalists
To understand Ethiopia’s election next month, where the ruling party is likely to win an overwhelming majority in parliament, it’s important to understand what happened in Africa’s second-most populous country a decade ago. It’s 2005…
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Turkey censors coverage of prosecutor's death
By  • 6 April 2015
Turkey has blocked access to social media sites Twitter and YouTube after users published online photos of Marxist militants aiming a gun at a hostage who was later killed in a shootout with police last…
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Russia to close two news outlets in Crimea
By  • 23 March 2015
A Crimean news agency and a media company will be shut down on April 1 after being denied licenses to operate by Russia's communications regulator. The Crimean News Agency, also known as QHA, and the…
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Yemen instability bolsters al-Qaida group
By , • 19 March 2015
Yemen's instability is an opportunity for Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula With continuing carnage in Syria and Iraq and a recent election in Israel, there’s one story that has been overshadowed from the Middle East:…
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India tries to suppress rape documentary
By  • 9 March 2015
India's government is attempting to suppress the distribution of a documentary about a high-profile 2012 gang rape and murder jointly produced by the BBC and an Indian television network, arguing the video encourages sexual violence…
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Turkey charges Dutch journalist for Kurdish reporting
By  • 10 February 2015
Prosecutors in Turkey have charged a Dutch journalist with charges of making propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and are seeking to jail her for up to five years. Frederike Geerdink was indicted…
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Singapore blogger convicted of 'contempt'
By  • 26 January 2015
A court in Singapore has convicted a prominent blogger and gay-rights activist of contempt of court over a 2013 article suggesting judges had manipulated the dates of a court challenge to a Singapore law banning…
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