Iran expelled many foreign reporters and put others under house arrest, making first hand reporting more difficult.
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It must also ask Comcare why the hell it is not in Nauru collecting evidence on what, according to first hand reports, appear to be clear breaches of workplace standards by the Commonwealth.
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People are giving first hand reports of what they're seeing directly on Twitter.
He could then give first hand reports to his mother who was understandably worried, and frustrated at the lack of immediate contact.
The site says that it accepts "classified, censored or otherwise restricted material of political, diplomatic or ethical significance" but does not take "rumour, opinion or other kinds of first hand reporting or material that is already publicly available".
The United States' reluctance is somewhat ironic because it was the first hand reports of U.S. diplomats that brought the genocide to light in the first place.
With first hand reports of job losses, house foreclosures and citizens living on credit card debt, the impact of the crisis on the individual worker in the developed world is clear.
This reflects poorly on a newspaper that prides itself on putting journalists on the ground in various warzones to do first hand reporting, instead of doing hack job writing from the safety of their desks in New York.
Therefore, the likelihood that these officers experienced railway suicides or received first hand reports from witnesses on the scene is high.
