2005-2014

TEHRAN, Aug. 24 — The title of the show is “Holocaust International Cartoon Contest,” or “Holocust,” as the show’s organizers spell the word in promotional material. But the content has little to do with the events of World War II and Nazi Germany. There is instead a drawing of a Jew with a very large nose, a nose so large it obscures his entire head. Across his chest is the word Holocaust...

And not as a political campaign strategy to deceive people into thinking that we are making head way as a nation when in actual sense we are not. The president during a rally in Chipata, warned Dr Kaunda to stop participating in politics or risk having his pension terminated. Honestly people, can one ask a politician to the bone like KK to stop caring about Zambia, a nation he saw from birth up to...

Tension has been mounting in Gaza Strip since a group calling itself the Holy Jihad Brigades released a video of two Fox News Channel journalists it said it kidnapped last week. In a statement with the video on August 23, the previously unknown group demanded the release of prisoners held by the United States within 72 hours in exchange for the journalists, an American and a New Zealander. The...

The media is becoming a hostage in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where teachers are leading a statewide strike that has dragged on for over three months, and the police have opened fire on demonstrators and journalists a number of times. THE STRUGGLE GOES ON: A member of a social organsation demanding the resignation of Oaxaca state governor Ulises Ruiz stands next to graffiti in Oaxaca

A Beijing court on Friday morning unexpectedly dismissed a state secrets charge against a researcher for the New York Times but sentenced him to three years in prison on a lesser, unrelated charge of fraud, the newspaper has reported. The verdict against researcher Zhao Yan, 44, spared him a prison sentence of 10 years or longer and also served as a blunt rebuke to the investigation by state...

Two journalists and a human rights activist went on trial today in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat. The hearings lasted just a few minutes and ended with the judge handing long jail sentences to all three defendants, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported. A LAW UNTO HIMSELF:President-for-Life Saparmurat Niyazov himself decides what prison sentences are to be handed down in a country

A Guatemalan radio host was seriously injured Wednesday when unidentified assailants shot him in the face as he was jogging in Guatemala City, according to news reports and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). PENSIVE BROTHER: Brother of radio journalist Vinicio Aguilar Mancilla looks at local reporters at the Herrera LLerandi Hospital where Aguilar is recovering from a gunshot wound in

THE first thing to greet a visitor to the Oslo headquarters of Schibsted, a Norwegian newspaper firm, is its original, hand-operated printing press from 1856, now so clean and polished it looks more like a sculpture than a machine. Christian Schibsted, the firm's founder, bought it to print someone else's newspaper, but when the contract moved elsewhere he decided to start his own. Although...

“A GOOD newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself,” mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared. At their best, newspapers hold governments and companies to account. They usually set the news agenda for the rest of the media. But in the rich world...

Cancun - The offices of Cancun's two major newspapers - Por Esto and Que Quintana Roo Se Entere - were the intended target of a multiple grenade attack, police officials said Thursday. But only one person was injured when the explosions occurred outside the buildings, sparing the safety of workers inside. The Red Cross confirmed that a 20-year-old man was treated for superficial wounds of this...