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BAGHDAD: A cameraman for the independent satellite channel Al-Mousaliya was killed by unknown gunmen Monday in an ambush in the northern city of Mosul, police said. Amir Malallah al-Rashidi was killed in the ambush at 8 p.m. in an eastern part of the city by gunmen in two cars, said Police Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim al-Jubouri. The 38-year-old had worked for the state-run Iraqiya television before...

A year and a half following the violent shockwaves sent across the Islamic world with the publication of 12 editorial cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed and criticizing Islam in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, culture editor Flemming Rose said he apologizes for offending the sentiments of Muslim people but has no regrets as that would mean succumbing to pressure and compromising freedom of...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about physical attacks on journalists with the El Mundo regional daily and the Red Uno TV station on 28 August in the eastern city of Santa Cruz during a demonstration by market traders protesting against a general strike by regional opponents of President Evo Morales’ central government. Journalists from the Spanish news agency EFE and Canal 7 TVB...

A Tunis criminal court has dismissed a libel case against the editor of an online newspaper after the plaintiff decided to withdraw his complaint, delayed reports have said. Charges of defamation had been leveled against Omar Mestiri, the editor of the online newspaper Kalima, by Tunisian lawyer Mohammed Baccar that could have led to his imprisonment for up to three years. The suit was a result of...

The editor of an independent Egyptian daily is to face prosecution over his paper's coverage of the state of President Hosni Mubarak's health. Recent speculation about the 79-year-old Mubarak has included his hospitalisation, travel abroad for medical treatment and even death, prompting him to make an unannounced visit to an industrial zone near his summer home on the Mediterranean coast in a bid...

More Islamic countries have protested against a Swedish newspaper's publication of a cartoon that has been deemed offensive by Muslims. The Swedish government has, however, refused to apologise on behalf of the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper. The Egyptian ministry of religious endowments Sunday denounced the cartoon as "irresponsible and offensive", according to Kuwaiti news agency KUNA. "Such an...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - People ask if it is tough being a journalist in Iraq. For me the hardest job is being a mother. The daily fear for my son overwhelmed me last year when a car bomb exploded near our home during the fasting month of Ramadan. My son Hani, who was six at the time, had just finished playing soccer with his friends in the street. He came inside, sweaty and cheerful, washed his face...

NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of criticism against the television sting expose on a Delhi school teacher, who was allegedly pushing her students into prostitution, broadcasters have defended the sting operation describing it as an extension of investigative journalism and an expose of a terrible crime. The broadcasters rejected the suggestion, as made by some, that the I&B ministry's proposed content...

PODGORICA (Reuters) - Three attackers beat up the managing editor of Montenegro's top-selling daily Vijesti early on Saturday in what he said was an assault carried out by opponents of his paper's investigative reporting. Zeljko Ivanovic said he was leaving a restaurant where the paper was celebrating its 10th anniversary when three men attacked him with metal or wooden sticks, causing injuries...

Dubai: A court has dismissed a case against a local newspaper, its editor-in-chief and senior journalist along with a medical assistant from compensating a private hospital with Dh1 million, which was being claimed against defamation. Dubai Civil Court decided that the English newspaper, it's editor-in-chief and senior journalist didn't defame the hospital in the article which discussed the...