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One of the nation's top political bloggers purchased the cell phone records of former presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark on Thursday to demonstrate the growing privacy concerns highlighted in a Chicago Sun-Times story last week. John Aravosis, publisher of AMERICAblog.com, said he bought Clark's records for $89.95 from celltolls.com. Aravosis said he obtained a list of 100 calls made on...

Will yesterday's in-your-face decision by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraq's most influential Shiite leader, to renege on his pledge to amend the new Constitution in a manner acceptable to Sunnis be the shove in the back that sends Iraq over the brink into all-out civil war? It certainly has that potential. Before the constitution was put to a vote in October, Sunnis were threatening to boycott the...

The immense human toll caused by conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Haiti, Chechnya, and northeast India are among the "Top Ten" Most Under-reported Humanitarian Stories of 2005, according to the year-end list released Thursday by international humanitarian medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The eighth annual list also highlights the lack of media attention...

WASHINGTON – The Arab news network Al Jazeera announced Thursday that Dave Marash, an award-winning former correspondent for ABC News' "Nightline," is joining its 24-hour English-language network, to be launched this spring. In an interview Thursday, Marash, 63, described his new position as "the most interesting job on Earth." Calling Al Jazeera "a thoroughly respectable news organization,"...

The liberal coverage of Islam by a large section of the international media is both a negative and positive phenomenon. It is apparent that the media provide fora for discussions on the meaning, scope and applicability of Islam. And, to a large extent, the discussants, among whom can be found Muslims, always attempt to explore the various arguments over the multifarious definitions, essence and...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court declined to intervene on Thursday on behalf of Yahoo Inc., the world's largest Internet media company, saying U.S. courts have no jurisdiction in a case pitting free speech against a French law barring the sale of Nazi memorabilia. In a case that pitted U.S. freedom of speech rights against European anti-hate group statutes, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court...

Reports of international condemnation of the killing of a young journalist by a forest ranger in Assam are trickling in but the Indian government is yet to make even the ritual noises about the gruesome murder that has shaken conservationists and journalists alike in the Northeast state. CONCERNED: UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura speaks at a news conference in Bridgetown, Barbados...

ZAGREB - A Croatian journalist charged by the UN war crimes tribunal with contempt of court has defied it by publishing the secret testimony of a protected witness on the Internet, reports said on January 12. Domagoj Margetic put out on his personal website what appeared to be testimony by Croatian President Stipe Mesic during the 1997 trial of former Bosnian Croat general Tihomir Blaskic, the...

The International Herald Tribune will start publishing in Moscow on Feb. 1 under an agreement with The Moscow Times, becoming the first international newspaper to be published daily in Russia. The newspaper will initially be sold by subscription and at about 40 newsstands in hotels, supermarkets, trade centers and BP filling stations. An annual subscription will cost $599, while single copies will...

A citizen journalist video clip from a concerned citizen about a pregnant woman giving birth on a pavement after being denied admission in a government hospital has created a stir in the Andhra Pradesh capital of Hyderabad. CRUEL INTENTION: A pregnant woman had to perforce give birth on the roadside after being denied admission in a government hospital in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. The incident...