On October 26, CNN anchor Lou Dobbs announced on the air that a shot had been fired at his home while his wife and her driver were standing outside in the driveway. Dobbs made the announcement on CNN and his syndicated radio program, saying the gunshot struck his home about three weeks earlier as his wife was standing outside. He said on the broadcasts that he had long received threatening phone calls, but noted that he had decided not to report the calls to police.
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Venezuelan Judge Fanny Yasmina Becerra ordered the arrest of journalist Gustavo Azócar on July 29, 2009, stating that he violated the conditions of his 2006 parole on charges of illegal acquisition of wealth and fraud by publicly commenting on his case. Táchira state authorities took Azócar into custody at 10:30 p.m., and drove him to a local prison, according to local news reports.
The
Urdu daily Asaap said Frontier Corps
forces were posted outside its offices on August 1, 2009, questioning staff about
connections with local insurgents, according to local news reports. The
Frontier Corps is a local paramilitary unit stationed to quell a violent
independence movement staged by Baloch nationalist groups in the province.
Chinese authorities assaulted three journalists from the Japanese
Kyodo News agency in a
An improvised
explosive device hit a Unites States Army vehicle in
A grenade was hurled at columnist Steve Barriero's garage
while he was parking his car in the driveway at around 11 p.m. on July 31, 2009,
in village 23 in the
On July 31, 2009, Judge Dácio Vieira of the
On July 16, 2009, police detained freelance photographer
Antônio Carlos Argemi while he was covering a protest outside the home of
Suspected
militants fired at two low-flying military helicopters in Basilan province in
the southern
On May 5, 2009, Milton Nelson Chacaguasay Flores, director
and editor of the weekly publication La Verdad in the city of
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