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Algeria court clears way for pardon of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes

Algeria court clears way for pardon of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes

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An Algerian court has cleared the way for a potential presidential pardon of detained French journalist Christophe Gleizes, after rejecting prosecutors’ appeal for a harsher sentence and formally noting the withdrawal of the defendant’s own appeal, his lawyers said Wednesday. Read moreAlgerian court upholds seven-year prison sentence for French journalist The lawyers for Christophe Gleizes, a French sports journalist detained in Algeria since 2024 on terror charges, announced the Court of Cassation’s decision in a statement on Facebook. “A decisive step has just been taken regarding the legal situation of Mr Christophe Gleizes,” lawyers Amirouche Bakouri and Emmanuel Daoud said in the joint statement. The court is Algeria’s highest court of appeal. The move is seen as opening the way for a pardon by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, with diplomatic relations between Paris and Algiers thawing in recent weeks following nearly two years of friction. “The future of Mr Christophe Gleizes now falls under the prerogatives of the president of the republic,” the lawyers said. Gleizes, 37, was arrested in May 2024 while travelling to northeastern …

Travel journalist Simon Calder leaving Independent to join Telegraph

Travel journalist Simon Calder leaving Independent to join Telegraph

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Artwork for Simon Calder’s new Telegraph podcast Travel journalist Simon Calder is leaving The Independent after 32 years to join The Telegraph. Calder will become travel correspondent at The Telegraph hosting new weekly podcast The Travel Expert, producing videos for social media, and leading The Telegraph’s travel newsletter which already has almost 200,000 subscribers. He will start the new role on 1 June and the podcast promises “a combination of consumer travel advice, inspirational travel destinations, expert interviews and a discussion of world travel news”. Calder has been The Independent‘s travel correspondent since 1994 and is well known for his regular appearances explaining travel stories on TV and radio. Calder won the travel journalism prize at Press Gazette’s British Journalism Awards in 2022, with the judges praising him for being a “fantastic consumer champion”. He was also named the top travel journalist in the UK by other travel journalists in a Press Gazette survey back in 2010. Telegraph head of travel Ben Ross said: “It’s brilliant news that Simon has agreed to join Telegraph Travel …

Former CNN journalist teams up with Paris Hilton to air documentary on Tiktok

Former CNN journalist teams up with Paris Hilton to air documentary on Tiktok

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Laurie Segall in action working on Mr Deepfakes investigation (L), Paris Hilton and Segall poster for series (R). Picture: Mostly Human Media Former CNN editor-at-large and technology correspondent Laurie Segall said she chose to launch her investigative docuseries on Tiktok because it “lends itself to the format” of “rabbit hole” storytelling. The 14-part series, launched with socialite and businesswoman Paris Hilton, explores the personal impact of explicit deepfakes on Tiktok and details the journey of unmasking an anonymous operator of one of the web’s largest deepfake abuse platforms. Deepfake abuse involves taking real images of victims and using AI to make it appear that the person is acting out situations they never have – in this case, sexually explicit scenes. “Searching for Mr Deepfakes” is a series of one to five minute videos – totalling around 40 minutes of content and was created by Segall’s company Mostly Human Media and Hilton’s 11:11 Media and premiered on 27 May after three years of reporting on the case. The series sees Segall and a team of hackers, …

Norwegian journalist says Meta suspended her accounts after challenging Modi

Norwegian journalist says Meta suspended her accounts after challenging Modi

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A Norwegian journalist who publicly challenged Narendra Modi over press freedom in India during his visit to Oslo has claimed that her Instagram and Facebook accounts were suspended days after the exchange triggered a political controversy. Helle Lyng, an Oslo-based reporter with the newspaper Dagsavisen, said on Wednesday that she had been locked out of both Meta-owned platforms following a wave of attention surrounding her questioning of the Indian prime minister and senior diplomats. “If you’re trying to reach me on Instagram or Facebook, I would like to let you know I have been suspended from both accounts. I have wanted to respond to as many Indians as possible, but my responses will now be delayed. I hope I will get my accounts back,” she wrote on X, tagging Meta. The company has not publicly commented on the suspensions or provided a reason for the accounts being disabled. The Independent has reached out seeking a comment from the social media giant. The dispute began earlier this week during a joint appearance in Oslo by Mr …

LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt loses it after journalist points out he lives in Santa Barbara

LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt loses it after journalist points out he lives in Santa Barbara

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reacted angrily on social media after a journalist pointed out that he’s not currently living in Los Angeles. The former cast member of reality show The Hills has claimed in multiple campaign videos that he was living in a trailer at the site of his Palisades home, which burned down in the 2025 L.A. fires. However, recent reporting has uncovered that Pratt has, in fact, been splitting time between a high-end L.A. hotel and a rental house outside the city. On X, Variety journalist Marlow Stern reacted to a headline claiming that Pratt plans to leave Los Angeles if he loses the election in June by writing: “he… lives in santa barbara.” Pratt was clearly upset by the jibe, writing in response: “My house burned down. I lost everything. I can’t rebuild. As a 42 …

French judge to probe complaint against Saudi’s MBS over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing

French judge to probe complaint against Saudi’s MBS over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing

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A Paris magistrate will investigate the 2018 assassination of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi after rights groups filed a complaint against Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, French sources told AFP on Saturday. Both Mohammed Bin Salman and the kingdom faced intense international uproar over the killing in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, which the US intelligence services believe the crown prince was directly responsible for.  A US resident who wrote critically about the oil-rich kingdom in The Washington Post, Khashoggi was strangled and then dismembered inside the Saudi consulate. Khashoggi’s employer, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), and the rights group Trial International had petitioned the French courts on the matter during Mohammed Bin Salman’s visit to France in July 2022. They were subsequently joined by a complaint from press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF. “An investigating judge from the crimes against humanity unit will now investigate the complaint” for torture and enforced disappearances, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office confirmed when contacted by AFP. It comes after years …

My Role as a ‘Complicit’ Journalist

My Role as a ‘Complicit’ Journalist

Published by Daniella Wilson

Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Trump late last month, appeared to consume political news like so many of his fellow citizens, absorbing daily doses of outrage on social media, metabolizing the anger, and projecting it out into the world in his own voice. His posts are remarkable for how typical they are for such platforms, where expressions of disgust are currency and polarization is the product. In response to a clip of Vice President Vance expressing pride in ending aid to Ukraine, a Bluesky account reportedly used by Allen read, “what a piece of shit.” When another account argued that members of the administration were “damned” for serving a president who posted an AI image of himself as Jesus, the assumed Allen account quoted from the Book of Revelation about God’s fury at worshippers of “the beast.” When Trump proposed charging tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, Allen apparently responded, “it’s public knowledge that he likely IS basically a sociopathic mob boss.” These were not calls for violence. But …

Israeli Strikes Kill Journalist in Southern Lebanon

Israeli Strikes Kill Journalist in Southern Lebanon

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new video loaded: Israeli Strikes Kill Journalist in Southern Lebanon Amal Khalil, a journalist for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, was killed and a photojournalist, Zeinab Faraj, was injured in Israeli strikes in the town of Tayri. Rescue crews also came under fire while attempting to aid the journalists, Lebanese officials said. By Christina Kelso April 23, 2026 Source link

Journalist recalls Israeli strike killing Amal Khalil in southern Lebanon | Humanitarian Crises

Journalist recalls Israeli strike killing Amal Khalil in southern Lebanon | Humanitarian Crises

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NewsFeed Journalist Zainab Faraj recalled the final moments of fellow journalist Amal Khalil. An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed Amal and caused severe injuries to Zainab, who spoke from her hospital bed. Israel has killed at least five people in its recent attacks on Lebanon. Published On 23 Apr 202623 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link