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Liberian information minister Laurence Bropleh continues to make a stalwart but surprising defence of his government’s targeting of the Monrovia Independent newspaper for publishing an obscene photograph of another cabinet minister. Disgraced Minister of Presidential Affairs Willis Knuckles tendered his resignation on February 25 after a picture of him in a sex act with two young girls surfaced on...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Hearst Corp. has been paying The Seattle Times $1 million a year since 1999 for the right to buy the newspaper first should it be put up for sale, according to documents released Tuesday. Hearst owns The Times' smaller rival, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and has been feuding with The Times since 2003, when The Times tried to dissolve a joint operating agreement between the...

T'PURAM: The CBI sleuths from New Delhi, who are on a mission to find the culprits in the Sister Abhaya murder case, visited this website's newspaper office at Sasthamangalam here on Friday morning for an interaction with the journalist who broke the recent report over the tampering of the chemical examination result in the case. CI Subhash Guddu and SI Vinod from the CBI special unit, New Delhi...

New York, April 20, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today’s imprisonment in Baku of Eynulla Fatullayev, editor of the independent Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and the Azeri-language daily Gündalik Azarbaycan. The Yasamal District Court convicted Fatullayev on charges of libeling and insulting Azerbaijanis in an Internet posting that was attributed to the editor. But...

April 20, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A journalist investigating deadly violence in southeastern Kazakhstan is still missing three weeks after departing from Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty. Oralgaisha Omarshanova (also known by the name Zhabagtaikyzy) is a 39-year-old reporter for the Russian-Kazakh weekly newspaper "Law And Justice," based in the Kazakh capital, Astana. She traveled to the Almaty...

A journalist with Ontario-based Pakistan Post newspaper was assaulted by two men who had warned him to stop writing against Islam. Jawaad Faizi was attacked in Mississauga, Ontario on the evening of April 17, according to the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). Faizi described being attacked by two men in his car outside the home of his editor, Amir Arain. Two men, one armed with a...

The Singapore government has banned an independent film about a former top journalist and political activist who was held without trial for 17 years in the island republic, deeming the documentary to be "against public interests". Said Zahari with his wife. Zahari's 17 years by local filmmaker Martyn See is a 49-minute interview with Said Zahari about his arrest and subsequent detention under the...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In the rush to explain massacres like the one at Virginia Tech, experts including popular TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw dusted off a familiar scapegoat -- violent video games, movies and other media. "The mass murderers of tomorrow are the children of today that are being programmed with this massive violence overdose," McGraw said on CNN's Larry King Live. "Common sense...

New Delhi: From what the bride and the groom are wearing to where they are headed for their honeymoon, media is focusing on the most minute details of the Aishwarya Rai-Abhishek Bachchan wedding. But who decides when private matters become public? Now this is one big fat Indian wedding that you simply can't ignore. The world's most beautiful woman weds India's most eligible bachelor – that's the...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the arrest of writer and political activist Andrei Kilmau on 3 April on a charge of “inciting the regime’s overthrow” in an article posted on the Internet in which he was very critical of President Lukashenko and looked at options for changing the political system in Belarus. The organisation is also concerned about a parliamentary committee’s bill that...