RT has announced that it is now accepting entries for the international contest for reports and videos from conflict zones for the Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards.
According to a statement made by the media outlet, the award was instituted "in memory of a journalist named Khaled Alkhateb who was working with RT Arabic", and "in 2019 it will be held for the second time".
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Khaled Alkhateb, a 25-year-old journalist who was covering the fighting between Syrian government troops and terrorists, was killed during shelling carried out by militants in the Syrian province of Homs.