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Leading news organizations are rejecting new rules for the press laid out by the Pentagon, saying they would muzzle reporters and undermine decades of coverage of the U.S. military.

A brown foal with a white stripe on its muzzle teetered on toothpick legs.

Its muzzle taped, Mr Kitson bit the dog's ear, suggesting this was punishment for the dog having bitten his child.

“I know that’s not as interesting as muzzling a comedian, but it’s so important to have a free press, and it is nuts that we aren’t paying more attention to it.”

The crackdown on civil society ramped up further following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and punitive new laws leading to mass arrests have muzzled any opposition.