Saturday, February 16, 2013

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CPJ asks Congo to release imprisoned journalist
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A leading media advocacy group is calling on Congolese authorities to release a journalist who was sentenced in December to six months in prison on defamation charges.


Canada's MacLeod lends hockey expertise to Japanese women for Sochi
CALGARY – Canadian hockey player Carla MacLeod plans to be at the 2014 Winter Olympics a year from now, but behind Japan’s bench.


Karzai says Afghan forces can't request airstrikes
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will issue a decree banning Afghan security forces from asking international troops to carry out airstrikes under “any circumstances.”


TV show with Pistorius' dead girlfriend to air
This is an undated portfolio photo supplied by Ice Model Management in Johannesburg of Reeva Steenkamp, during a photo shoot. Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning development in the life of a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs. Reeva Steenkamp, a model who spok   e out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women, was shot four times in the predawn hours in the home, in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria, police said. (AP Photo/Ice Model Management) EDITORIAL PURPOSE ONLYJOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's national broadcaster will screen a reality TV show feat uring the dead model girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, it said Saturday, two days after she was shot and killed at the home of the double-amputee athlete and Paralympic superstar.


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