2005-2014

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish state prosecutors on Monday charged nine people, including a journalist who works for Reuters news agency, with spreading propaganda on behalf of Kurdish separatists. If found guilty the nine, who include other journalists and human rights activists, face up to three years in jail. Turkish national Ferit Demir, a stringer for Reuters based in the eastern town of Tunceli...

BEIJING – An emotional strike by 100 journalists at this city's most popular and lively newspaper follows a 16-month campaign to quash a broad range of "unapproved" public speech in areas verging on politics or society - a campaign that includes Internet blogs, and new restrictions on cellphones designed to smoke outsenders of renegade text messages. In the case of Beijing News, whose progressive...

The police in Lilongwe Monday forced Nation Publications journalist Mabvuto Banda disembark an Ethiopian Airlines plane at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) as he was about to fly out to London, United Kingdom. According to the police officer who was handling the issue, Jacob Bango, KIA Police just received a message on Sunday from Lilongwe Regional Police Office that Banda should not be allowed...

WASHINGTON (AP) A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the...

NEW YORK: A 32-year-old former Wall Street Journal reporter has joined the U.S. Marines. "When people ask why," Matt Pottinger wrote in a column last month, "I usually have a short answer. It felt like the time had come to stop reporting events and get more directly involved. But that's not the whole answer, and how I got to this point wasn't a straight line." Among other assignments, Pottinger...

MAKING predictions about anything is a fool's errand, which got me wondering why I was put in charge of it this year. But, with a firm grasp of industry trends and a little imagination (plus a Magic 8-Ball, a Ouija Board and a piece of yarn that a cat had spit up), I was able to divine some slam-dunk predictions for the coming year that would make Kreskin weep. Here goes: The 30-Second Spot will...

Viacom, the entertainment company controlled by Sumner M. Redstone, said in a statement that it had completed a plan to split itself into two companies, the CBS Corporation and Viacom Inc. Shares of the New York-based companies will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow. They have changed hands on a when-issued basis since Dec. 5. Investors are to receive one CBS share and one...

Bloomberg News, the financial news service, appears to be a bright spot in an industry clouded by transition, job cuts and uncertainty. Bloomberg has hired Roger Simon, the political writer who was unexpectedly laid off from U.S. News and World Report in October, as its chief political correspondent. Mr. Simon, 57, is one of several recent hires by the news service, which is expanding at a time...

MOSCOW, Jan. 1 - Recent turmoil in the news department of REN-TV, Russia's last nationwide television network with independent news programming, has caused concern among media analysts and free-speech advocates in the country. Last July, RTL Group, the broadcasting arm of the Bertelsmann Group, agreed to buy a 30 percent stake in REN-TV from Irena Lesnevskaya, who founded and ran the channel with...

About two years ago, when he was ten, the boy Basel asked his father, Abd a-Razek Faraj, to start praying. It was after the fourth or fifth or sixth time - who remembers, anymore - that a military commander in the Judea and Samaria region issued an administrative arrest warrant against Faraj - in other words, extended again the original arrest warrant issued on April 24, 2002. "Allah is punishing...