Sentence examples for close news from inspiring English sources

Hungary's first week in the union's rotating presidency has been dominated by assertions that the new law threatens news media freedom by empowering a new authority — whose appointees are loyal to Mr. Orban and his Fidesz party — to fine or close news organizations it deems in violation of standards of balance and respect for human dignity.

A massive protest against the government of Thailand on Monday occupied seven key intersections in teeming Bangkok, paralyzing traffic in the city of 12 million and forcing schools and businesses to close, news agencies reported.

Ms. Brooks's resignation in July followed closely the News Corporation's abrupt decision to close News of the World, Britain's highest-circulation Sunday newspaper, after 168 years of continuous publication.

The decision to close News of the World was probably hard to avoid and makes cold commercial sense.

Those complaints became more pronounced in July 2011 when a phone hacking scandal erupted at the company's British newspaper division, prompting the chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, to abruptly close News of the World, one of News Corporation's most profitable papers.

They closed news bureaus.

The customary closing news conference was shelved after journalists expressed concerns that the Chinese authorities planned exclusions.

French newspapers nicknamed their president "Chancellor Chirac"; at the closing news conference, German journalists peppered Mr. Chirac with questions in German.

After the markets had closed, news emerged that Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges of securities fraud linked to mortgage investments.

In 2004, of course, he dropped a video on the Friday before the vote and stirred up the closing news cycles.

Without a vaccine, few epidemics can be controlled by treatment or prevention alone, Dr. Casabona said at the closing news conference.