Iraq’s U.N. mission turned down a visa application from an Israeli journalist to cover Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s peace mission to Baghdad. The reporter for the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot was the only reporter on a list of more than 30 U.N. correspondents from around the world to be denied an Iraqi visa.
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