Christopher Resch News Today

It's ten years since Anja Niedringhaus was killed in Afghanistan on April 4, 2014. With her photography, the Pulitzer laureate chronicled wars and crises around the globe.

Israel is at the "height of the battle" in Gaza, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Meanwhile, hundreds of foreign nationals are being allowed to leave Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Follow DW for more.

The number of media professionals killed or imprisoned has risen this year. China and Iran are the most dangerous countries and women are the most at risk. And the war in Ukraine has added a new dimension.

China and Iran are the most dangerous countries and women are the most at risk

At the end of November, a squad of young cultural creatives from all over Iraq met in Erbil, in the country’s north. Their work spans the fault lines that run through Iraqi society, and draws parallels to the revolution in Baghdad and in the country as a whole. Christopher Resch reports from Erbil

A black sequined dress against a dark background. Two expressive hands dancing. A western dance, an "Oriental" dance – whatever that is. The video-sound-collage of artist Anahita Razmi sets out to demonsrate that cultural forms of expression can be adapted. By Christopher Resch

In its surveillance operations targeting free press outlets and critics of the system, the Egyptian regime uses spyware – some of it developed by European companies.

Media in Russia have to call the war against Ukraine a "special military operation." Journalists who try to resist face harsh consequences. The latest casualty is Russia's best-known independent radio station.

Journalists are under fire from all factions in the Yemen conflict. Rasha Abdullah al-Harazi, nine months pregnant, recently died in a car bomb attack in Aden, her husband barely survived. Just one of many, as Diana Hodali reports

Journalists are under fire from all factions in the Yemen conflict. Rasha Abdullah al-Hazari, nine months pregnant, recently died in a bomb attack, her husband barely survived. Without legal protection, many simply flee.