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The New York Times has announced that four of its journalists are missing in Libya, where they were working, covering the conflict that has roiled the country. According to a post on the paper’s Media Decoder blog, editors in New York lost contact with the journalists on Tuesday, and have since received “second hand reports” that the reporting team “in the port city of Ajdabiya had been swept up by Libyan government forces.”

NEW YORK -- The New York Times says four of its journalists reporting on the Libya conflict are missing and were last heard from Tuesday.

KABUL — British commandos freed a New York Times reporter early Wednesday from Taliban captives who kidnapped him over the weekend in northern Afghanistan, but one of the commandos and a Times' translator were killed in the rescue, officials said. Reporter Stephen Farrell was taken hostage along with his translator in the northern province of Kunduz on Saturday. German commanders had ordered U.S. jets to drop bombs on two hijacked fuel tankers, causing a number of civilian casualties, and reporters traveled to the area to cover the story Two military officials told The Associated Press that one British commando died...

April 08, 2003Crack, crack. The body jumped, fell still and the American battle for Baghdad moved on From Stephen Farrell in BaghdadHANDS above their heads, two Iraqis slowly mount the steps and lie face down on the road between the palace walls and reedbanks of the Tigris river. Just 20 yards from the American Bradley armoured vehicles, one makes a fatal mistake. He appears to roll over. Crack. Crack, crack. The body jumps, then falls still. The US platoon continues its work, and the battle for Baghdad moves on along a river that has swollen with blood throughout history and...