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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Slain Journalist’s Family: No Help from US for a Full Probe

Lina Abu Akleh, the niece of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, speaks to the Associated Press at the US Capitol during a trip to Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP)

A relative of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh said Wednesday that the Biden administration's top diplomat refused her face-to-face appeal to push for a full US investigation into the killing of the veteran television correspondent.

Niece Lina Abu Akleh also said Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US officials declined in meetings with her this week to provide any more information than they had already made public about how Americans reached the findings about the killing that they released this month.

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