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Slain journalist's family: No help from US for a full probe
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Lina Abu Akleh, the niece of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, speaks to the Associated Press at the U.S. Capitol during a trip to Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Family members are in the nation's capital asking the Biden administration for an investigation into Shireen's death. - photo by AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren
WASHINGTON (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 U.S. investigation into the killing of the veteran television correspondent. Niece Lina Abu Akleh also said Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. 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. A July 4 statement issued by the State Department concluded that Israeli forces likely fired the shot that killed Shireen Abu Akleh in May, but that there was no indication Israelis intentionally shot the veteran Al Jazeera correspondent.