2005-2014

Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, meeting with the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in Copenhagen this weekend, chose to take a positive view of the increasingly volatile conflict over newspaper Jyllands-Posten's caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. Karzai, in Europe to attend the World Economic Forum, was visiting Denmark to discuss the country's contribution to the...

Brussels, Jan 31, IRNA: The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, repeated Tuesday warnings of reprisals against countries which impose a trade boycott on Denmark for publication of cartoons insulting Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) "Any WTO member state that backed boycott of this kind would expose itself to serious criticisms under the WTO. We cannot rule out the possibility of such...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Time Inc., after eliminating 105 management jobs just before Christmas, is moving to cut about 100 more, including up to 10 at its flagship, Time magazine, a product of Time Warner (TWX) The New York Times reported in its Tuesday editions. Both editorial and business-side employees are being cut at several of the company's domestic magazines. About 40 business-side...

The Editor-In-Chief of the Parrot Newspaper, Alfred Kaine narrowly escaped death when he was attacked and brutalized by four thugs last Saturday night on 11th Street in Sinkor in the area adjacent the Sarafina Communications Building. According to the Parrot Editor-In-Chief, his attackers, who were on board a Toyota Pathfinder four wheel drive vehicle, trailed him from the Capital Bye Pass through...

BRUSSELS, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Commission is poised to propose creating an EU press agency to boost communication channels to and from citizens, a report said Tuesday. The plan, which Web site EUobserver said would be announced Wednesday, also would establish a code of conduct for European Union institutions and journalists. The idea was sparked by Dutch and French citizen rejection of...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A Danish Muslim group Tuesday accepted an apology from a newspaper that published offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but said later that it had decided the statement was ambiguous. The group did not elaborate and it was unclear if there would be any effect on protests and boycotts of Danish goods in Muslim countries. The offices of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten were...

With the dread of potential research papers hanging over the heads of many students this early in a semester, many could face a potential problem with an online source that is readily accessible, easy to understand and could contain personal editorials over the prospective subject to be researched. After developing the concept or tentative subject for collecting research, the first thing most...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is to scrap a bid to define common rules on which national legislation should apply in cross-border media defamation cases, the EU's top justice official said on Tuesday. European Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini told EU lawmakers that he would ask the EU executive to drop the plan on Wednesday because of differences among the bloc's 25 member...

NEW YORK Although newspapers are read only a few times a day and for brief periods each time, compared to other media, that time is relatively uninterrupted by other activities, a recent study by Ball State University's Middletown Media Studies reported today. Sixty-eight percent of the time test subjects spent with newspapers was without competition from other activities, compared to 53.8% for...

The editor of the Moroccan weekly newspaper Akhbar Al Ousboue , Adil Tadili, was liberated Saturday after having spent 22 months in jail for many press offences, reported MAP news agency. On April 15, 2004, Tadili was incarcerated in Rabat after being summoned to Rabat police headquarters for a legal matter dating back to 1994. Tadili was sentenced to pay a fine of MAD 3 million for evading...