Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan re-arrested days after release | Media News

Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan re-arrested days after release | Media News

Aasif Sultan, a former editor of Kashmir Narrator magazine, has been re-arrested under ‘anti-terror’ law days, two days after his release following five years in jail. A Kashmiri journalist, who was released after spending more than five years in jail earlier this week, has been re-arrested by police in another…

Money, power and the peril of courting Chinese nationalism | Politics News

Money, power and the peril of courting Chinese nationalism | Politics News

In January, a Chinese ultranationalist vlogger – video blogger – came across red circular stickers on the glass doors of a shopping mall in Nanjing featuring the words: “Happy 2024.” The vlogger claimed that what appeared to be innocent New Year decorations were, in fact, nationalistic Japanese motifs since the…

Reliance, Disney announce $8.5bn merger to create Indian media powerhouse | Media News

Reliance, Disney announce $8.5bn merger to create Indian media powerhouse | Media News

India’s entertainment market is already one of the world’s biggest, with the merger expected to further shake up the multibillion-dollar industry. India’s Reliance Industries and Walt Disney of the United States have announced the merger of their India TV and streaming media assets, creating an $8.5bn entertainment powerhouse far ahead…

Suicide vs genocide: Rest in power, Aaron Bushnell | Israel War on Gaza

Suicide vs genocide: Rest in power, Aaron Bushnell | Israel War on Gaza

On Sunday, February 25, 25-year-old active duty member of the United States Air Force Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in the US capital of Washington, DC, in a one-airman revolt against the US-backed slaughter currently being perpetrated by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip….

Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism | Media

Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism | Media

If you have been following Western media to try to make sense of the heartbreaking images and stories coming out of Gaza during Israel’s invasion, you are bound to be disappointed. Since the beginning of the latest Israeli assault on the besieged Palestinian enclave – which is proving to be…

Why, as a Palestinian American journalist, I had to leave the news industry | Israel War on Gaza

Why, as a Palestinian American journalist, I had to leave the news industry | Israel War on Gaza

I was listening to a lecture at my local mosque when it suddenly felt like the imam was speaking directly to me. He was interpreting a few verses from the Quran. As he approached the sixth verse in the chapter and began to explain its meaning, my heart began to…

Stories of ‘beating the odds’ in China draw dark responses from wary public | Social Media News

Stories of ‘beating the odds’ in China draw dark responses from wary public | Social Media News

A honeymoon in Western Tibet came to a tragic end in October when the newlyweds crashed their car on a mountain road after suffering altitude sickness. Sitting in the passenger seat, 27-year-old Yu Yanyan from Shanghai was badly injured. Despite being transferred to a local hospital, rapid haemorrhaging and a…

Al Jazeera’s Samer Abudaqa was ‘targeted’, left to bleed by Israel: Report | Israel War on Gaza News

Al Jazeera’s Samer Abudaqa was ‘targeted’, left to bleed by Israel: Report | Israel War on Gaza News

Samer Abudaqa, Al Jazeera’s cameraman who was killed on December 15 in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, died despite an extensive network of humanitarian organisations and fellow journalists applying pressure on Israel to help rescue him, The Intercept has reported. Abudaqa was left to bleed to death at the…