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(IFJ/IFEX) - Today the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European group of the International Federation of Journalists, strongly condemned the repeated threats against journalists in Cyprus and in particular the latest intimidation of a writer writing about a love affair between a man and woman from either side of the divided community. "In a split country like Cyprus, we cannot accept...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi television reporter who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week was freed Monday, his station said. Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a 28-year-old reporter for the Iraqi satellite channel al-Baghdadiyah, was released and appeared to be in good health, according to an editor at the channel who spoke on condition of anonymity because of safety concerns. No ransom was paid, the editor said. He...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's northern Kurdistan region have banned journalists from travelling to Kurdish rebel bases, officials said on Monday, accusing the media of aggravating the crisis with Turkey. Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) spokesman Jamal Abdullah said the semi-autonomous KRG would stop journalists going to Iraq's northern border and interviewing Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels...

NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has added 17 more newspapers to its group of online publishing partners, giving the group added heft as it approaches its one-year anniversary. Yahoo executives told The Associated Press that The Columbus Dispatch and 16 regional newspapers owned by The New York Times Co. have joined the consortium, bringing its total number to about 415 dailies and another 140 weeklies...

New Delhi: Some mediapersons were roughed up by police at the venue of the day-long AICC session here, prompting Congress president Sonia Gandhi to tender an apology. The unsavoury incident occurred when scribes were stopped from entering the Talkatora Stadium by the police in the morning hours, leading to heated exchange of words between them. Police denied entry claiming that the stadium was...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi television reporter was kidnapped on his way to work in central Baghdad, his station said Saturday, while the U.S. military reported that troops had killed six suspected militants in a raid. Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a 28-year-old reporter for the Iraqi satellite channel al-Baghdadiyah, disappeared Friday, according to an editor at the channel. The editor spoke on condition of...

BBC chiefs have ordered a wide-ranging review of Scottish news coverage, amid growing claims licence fee payers are being short-changed north of the Border. Scots get just 3% of the corporation's budget despite making up 8.4% of the UK's population, and there is concern that London-based BBC news executives are failing to cover major events in Scotland, particularly since devolution and the...

KHARTOUM, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Two Sudanese journalists have been convicted of publishing an article criticising security services for detaining four other journalists, their colleagues said on Sunday. Al-Fatih Mahjoub Irwaha, editor in chief of Arabic daily Al-Sudani, and his deputy and columnist Nurelden Madini, are facing two months in prison after refusing to pay a fine for defamation, staff at...

WHEN Hurricane Katrina hit America’s Gulf coast late in the summer of 2005, the Daily Mail was there. But headlines such as “City sunk by the wrath of Katrina” and “Come hell or high water, the music will go on”, were only the beginning of its involvement in a disaster that claimed 1,800 lives. Beyond the trenchant prose of the voice of middle England, Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), the...

An inquest report has established with great detail that the Indonesian army was responsible for the death of five British, Australian and New Zealander journalists in East Timor in 1975. The report clearly shows they were eliminated because they too much about Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, which was just getting under way. Shirley Shackleton, widow of one of the five journalists killed in...