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Attacks on journalists increase in '07

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More journalists have been killed worldwide in 2007 than at any time in the past decade, according to a report…

More journalists have been killed worldwide in 2007 than at any time in the past decade, according to a report released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists.  

The committee’s annual report found that 64 journalists died in connection with their work this year. Nearly half of those deaths, 31, occurred in Iraq.

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