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August 21, 2012

Japanese Reporter Killed in Syria 
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In Syria, a Japanese reporter covering the country's civil war has been
killed in the city of Aleppo. Mika Yamamoto was embedded with the
opposition Free Syrian Army when she was caught in the middle of a gun
battle on Monday. Yamamoto was the fourth foreign journalist to die in
Syria since March 2011.

 

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