The New York Times Monday September 8, 2025
French judges have issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian ruler, and six senior officials of his ousted regime for killing and wounding a group of journalists in 2012, during the Syrian civil war. Marie Colvin, 56, a reporter for the British newspaper The Sunday Times, and Rémi Ochlik, 28, a French freelance photographer, were killed when artillery struck a building in Homs where journalists had set up a makeshift media center. Three others were wounded. Colleagues suspected that Syrian forces had located the journalists by tracing their satellite phone signals.
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David Schonauer Monday September 8, 2025
CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman's day job is telling uplifting stories of people who do good things and usually go unrecognized, and over the years, he has often been sent to profile committees
coping with the aftermath of mass shootings. But he also pursued a side project his bosses weren't aware of: He and still photographer Lou Bopp captured more than 10,000 images from … Read the full Story >>
Sora News 24 Friday September 5, 2025
Rail buffs are generally considered harmless hobbyists, but train photographers in Japan — known as toritetsu — are gaining a different kind of reputation entirely, notes PetaPixel, citing a report from Sora News 24. Apparently a criminal gang is operating within the toritetsu community. The Osaka Prefectural Police recently arrested six men in their early 20s for shoplifting 111 items valued at about 410,000 yen ($2,800) from shops inside the 2025 Osaka-Kansai World Expo, notes Sora News.
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Design Boom Friday September 5, 2025
The winners of the Architecture Photography Awards 2025 have been announced, with the top Photo of the Year prize going to Michael Luetge for an image of a 1950s-era gas station in Hamburg, Germany’s Grindelviertel district. The photo was also the winner of the Night & Low-Light category. “Once defined by its sweeping canopy and now preserved as a listed building, the modest glass structure is framed at night as a composition of light, geometry, and urban memory,” notes Design Boom.
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