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Will not be silenced, says Al-Jazeera after Israeli airstrike in Gaza destroys building with media outlets
•The Associated Press, which also had its bureau in the building, termed the airstrike 'incredibly disturbing' and said that the world would know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today
Tennis legend Roger Federer says he 'really doesn't know' when to retire and he's not thinking about it
•Two days into Federer's preparation for next season, he flies to Melbourne on 9 January, a week before the Australian Open draw, he is taking a 48-hour break, sitting out his fitness sessions
American Society of News Editors and Associated Press Media Editors merge to become News Leadership Association
•The American Society of News Editors and Associated Press Media Editors, whose membership of newsroom leaders and educators make them among the most significant organisations in media, have agreed to merge and will become the News Leadership Association.
National Enquirer chief David Pecker hid damaging Donald Trump stories in a safe, helped bury reports on hush money payments
•The detail came as several media outlets reported on Thursday that federal prosecutors had granted immunity to National Enquirer chief David Pecker, potentially laying bare his efforts to protect his longtime friend Trump.
Donald Trump seizes on college student Mollie Tibbetts' murder by illegal alien to rally base in midterm season; calls US immigration laws a 'disgrace'
•The disappearance of a well-liked college student from America's heartland had touched many people since she vanished one month ago while out for a run. But the stunning news that a Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally has allegedly confessed to kidnapping and murdering her thrust the case into the middle of the contentious immigration debate and midterm elections.
Hopes rise for US immigration deal on DACA while legal immigrants remain on edge in midterm election year
Fp Staff •A leader of US House moderates said Thursday that a tentative deal with conservatives has emerged to help young "Dreamer" immigrants brought illegally to the US as children and later given temporary protections by the Obama government now stay in the U.S. legally. But where does all this leave those who are legally in America and waiting in line?
US Congress races against time to fix contentious US immigration problems - the new tinderbox of American politics
Fp Staff •While the US president and his A team on hardline immigration chart their own course, deep fault lines have surfaced within the Republican party on a mind-stretching gamut of issues that have come to define the catchall of immigration policy in the US.
Donald Trump on midterm campaign mode whips up immigration storm; seizes on opponents' glaring social media errors
Fp Staff •US President Donald Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents.
Pashtun protesters accuse Pakistan Army of 'widespread abuses,' military claims agitation backed by 'foreign powers'
•Infuriated by Pashtun leader Manzoor Pashteen's outspoken criticism, the Pakistan Army has accused him of being backed by "foreign powers," a term usually used to refer to neighbouring Afghanistan or rival India
39 Indians killed in Mosul died over a year ago and most were shot in the head, says report
Fp Staff •The 39 Indian constructions workers whose bodies were discovered in a dirt mound outside a village in Iraq's Mosul were shot dead, most of them in the head