2005-2014

KATHMANDU: In an echo of media curbs imposed in February 2005 when King Gyanendra seized power, the royalist government was trying to censor the Indian media as Nepal was thrown into fresh turmoil, reports said. Last year, after the royal coup, Indian news channels Aaj Tak and Star News had been closed down. This week, after opposition parties called a mass protest meet in Kathmandu on Friday and...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has ordered a British journalist to leave the country within 24 hours, accusing him of portraying it in a bad light, state television said on Saturday. Anthony Mitchell, who worked for the Associated Press, was summoned to the foreign ministry and told to leave. "Anthony Mitchell has been asked to leave the country in the next 24 hours because of disseminating...

MAPUTO, Mozambique, Jan. 20 - Who killed Carlos Cardoso? After assassins gunned down Mr. Cardoso 62 months ago, ending his effort as a journalist to unravel a banking scandal here, the Nobel laureate Günter Grass and others made that question a rallying cry for justice, both for his murder and for Mozambique's corruption-ridden society. On Friday, in a sweltering Maputo courtroom, a judge handed...

WASHINGTON (CP) - The Pentagon charged a suspected al-Qaida terrorist Friday in connection with a March 2002 grenade attack in Afghanistan that severely injured Canadian journalist Kathleen Kenna. Abdul Zahir, the 10th prisoner at Guantanamo Bay to be charged, is facing counts of attacking civilians, conspiracy and aiding the enemy. No trial date has been set before a special military tribunal...

A fierce public debate about journalistic ethics has begun in Iceland after a newspaper reported that a former school teacher was being investigated for sexually abusing two boys, and the man committed suicide. Two senior editors at DV, Iceland’s fourth-largest daily newspaper, have resigned, and more than 10% of Iceland’s population of 300,000 people has signed an online petition demanding that...

Picture a world where rumour is rife, where established media are focusing on unfair and unsubstantiated allegations, where government has to dedicate its efforts to fighting off and correcting slanders and trying to control the press. No, I'm not talking about bloggers, or the world of the internet. This was England in 1695, when the licensing of pamphlets and newspapers came to an end and for...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police have arrested a journalist for trying to get a job at Buckingham Palace for an undercover report. A spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan Police said the 25-year-old woman had been arrested on Thursday after they discovered bogus details on her application for a job at the palace. The News of the World, a Sunday tabloid, said its reporter Bethany Usher "was engaged in a...

The siege of the state broadcaster RadioTélévision Ivoirienne (RTI) by several hundred Young Patriots was lifted Thursday night and normal programming resumed today, Reporters Without Borders has learned. Most employees were able to return to their posts and talks are under way to "identify the lessons to be drawn" from the events of the past few days, a source close to the management said. Some...

IF great oaks from little acorns grow, a company called the Seed Media Group is hoping that its efforts in a fledgling field, blogs, will yield a forest. Seed Media, which produces science publications in print and online, is seeking to broaden its audience - and its appeal to advertisers - by introducing on Monday a network of blogs, or Web journals, devoted to science and science-related...

While Google refused to comply with the United States government’s request for search data last August, Microsoft, Yahoo, and America Online admitted Friday they provided some data to the Justice Department. A Yahoo spokesperson said the portal firm provided data that the company’s executives believe did not violate the company’s privacy guidelines. An AOL spokesperson said the portal firm gave...