Jo Becker

1 month ago | observer.ug | Angella Kasule Nabwowe |Jo Becker

Three recent independent reports have made a compelling case for Uganda to invest in pre-primary education. In June 2024, the Initiative for Economic and Social Rights (ISER) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a study on access to pre-primary education (or nursery) in Uganda, based on interviews with more than 100 parents, teachers, children, and education officials around the country.

Dec 8, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jo Becker |Adam Rasgon

To his students, Ahmad al-Khatib was a deputy principal at an elementary school in Gaza run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. To Hamas's military wing, documents say, he was something else entirely: an infantryman operating out of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The military wing, known as the Qassam Brigades, kept meticulous records of its fighters, tracking the weapons they were issued and regularly evaluating everything from their fitness to their loyalty.

Jun 25, 2024 | hawaiitribune-herald.com | Jo Becker

LONDON — Will Lewis, now the publisher of The Washington Post, was in full crisis mode in 2011. Then an executive at a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, he was an intermediary to the police detectives investigating a British phone-hacking scandal that had placed the company’s journalists and top leaders in legal peril.

Jun 17, 2024 | ekathimerini.com | Justin Scheck |Jo Becker

The publisher and the incoming editor of The Washington Post, when they worked as journalists in London two decades ago, used fraudulently obtained phone and company records in newspaper articles, according to a former colleague, a published account of a private investigator and an analysis of newspaper archives. Will Lewis, the Post’s publisher, assigned one of the articles in 2004 as business editor of The Sunday Times.

Jun 15, 2024 | ksml.fi | Jo Becker |Justin Scheck

Vuonna 2018 Israelissa tehtiin tiedusteluläpimurto: turvallisuuspalvelun haltuunsa saamissa salaisissa asiakirjoissa kuvattiin tarkasti yksityinen pääomarahasto, jota Hamas käytti operaatioidensa rahoittamiseen. Asiakirjat oli imuroitu Hamasin korkea-arvoisen virkamiehen tietokoneelta. Niissä listatut omistukset olivat yhteensä satojen miljoonien dollarien arvoisia.