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Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #813 TUESDAY November 9, 2021: ‘IRAQ’S KILLING FIELDS’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Daniel Carde who has covered landmine removal from Cambodia to Iraq.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #813: TUESDAY November 9, 2021: ‘IRAQ’S KILLING FIELDS’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Daniel Carde who has covered landmine removal from Cambodia to Iraq: Ali is a local legend and hero in Iraqi Kurdistan, he’s rescued 182 people from deadly minefields, cleared 104 villages, demined 540 square kilometers of land, taught landmine awareness to at least 700 schools and rendered safe more than 2.5 million landmines and unexploded ordnances, many of those he cleared as a double amputee having lost his right leg to an Italian made landmine in January 1989. Iraq is the world’s most contaminated country with landmines, partly due to the mines laid by Islamic State to defend the territory it once controlled over Iraq and Syria, but also as a result of the 2003 invasion by the U.S.-led coalition, the 1991 Gulf War and the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. The global casualty toll of landmines doubled in 2018 from a 2013 low due to heavy conflicts in the region and to the increased use of improvised landmines set by militant groups such as Islamic State. Welcome to: ‘IRAQ’S KILLING FIELDS’

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

ZUMA’s Rodrigo Reyes-Marin featured on Bloomberg.com

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November 1, 2021, Tokyo, Japan: Japan’s Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Fumio Kishida attends a news conference at the party headquarters. Kishida answered questions from the press after his party won majority seats (in coalition with the Komeito party) at Japan’s lower house, as a result of the Oct. 31 general election.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #812 TUESDAY November 2, 2021: ‘Being Taiwan’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi who covers the ongoing story in Taiwan under the shadow of China.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #812: TUESDAY November 2, 2021: ‘Being Taiwan’ by ZUMA Press award winning photographer Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi who covers the ongoing story in Taiwan under the shadow of China: The increase in Chinese military activity in Taiwan over the last few months has caused global concern. The island of Taiwan, about a hundred miles off China’s southeastern coast, has its own democratically elected government, its own flag, its own military. Yet most of the world, including the U.S., won’t recognize it as an independent country for fear of upsetting China, which insists it owns Taiwan. Caught in the middle are the island’s citizens. Today, Taiwan has all the attributes of a robust independent state, and most Taiwanese want it to stay that way. But Chinese President Xi Jinping appears eager to annex the island, as Mao Zedong’s regime did to Tibet in the early 1950s, in the name of ‘reunification.’ A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would constitute the biggest threat to world peace in a generation. There is disagreement and confusion about what Taiwan is. China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province which it has vowed to retake, by force if necessary. But Taiwan argues that it is a sovereign state. Given the huge divide between these two positions, most other countries seem happy to accept the current ambiguity, whereby Taiwan has virtually all of the characteristics of an independent state, even if its legal status remains unclear. Welcome to: ‘Being Taiwan’

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

ZUMA’s Mark Hertzberg featured on WhoWhatWhy.org

Posted by ZUMAPRESS.com on November 3, 2021
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October 5, 2021, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA: KYLE RITTENHOUSE, 18, waiting for start of his motion hearing in Kenosha (Wisconsin) Circuit Court, Tuesday. Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Schroeder weighed several motions, in an effort to establish the final ground rules for the November 1, 2021 criminal trial. Judge refused to dismiss a weapons charge. Rittenhouse, then 17, during an August 2020 BLM protest in Kenosha, shot two men fatally during the unrest that followed the shooting of J. Blake by a Kenosha police officer. Rittenhouse’s attorneys asked for dismissal of a charge that he possessed his AR-style semiautomatic rifle illegally, because he was a minor. Rittenhouse faces 7 charges including one count each of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide, Reckless Homicide, and Attempted Intentional Homicide.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press