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Harare - A private Zimbabwean newspaper said on Thursday it had received a bullet and a threat from an unidentified source over stories relating to the national army, and warned this could be part of a new crackdown on the media. President Robert Mugabe's government has piled pressure on the media in the last five years with a set of tough media laws imposed in the face of the country's deepening...

The Associated Press has repeated its call for the US military to charge or release one of its freelance photographers whose been jailed in Iraq without charge since April last year. The news wire service said yesterday that Bilal Hussein is accused of being a “security threat” though it stressed no evidence has been produced to substantiate the claim since he was arrested 10 months ago. An...

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the indefinite closure today of an independent Sudanese daily for publishing an article about the beheading of an editor last September. A state prosecutor imposed an immediate ban on the prominent Arabic-language Al-Sudani which carried an article on January 31 discussing the murder of Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, editor-in-chief of the private daily...

Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Ethiopian Supreme Court's decision on 26 January 2007 to reject an appeal by journalist Abraham Reta of the privately-owned weekly "Addis Admas" and send him back to prison to complete the one-year sentence he received in April 2006 for allegedly libelling three senior officials. "We will not be able to talk of press freedom in Ethiopia as long as heavy...

Increasing "the ranks of our military" is "one of the first steps we can take together" to "position America to meet every challenge that confronts us," said President Bush in last week's State of the Union address. "Tonight I ask the Congress to authorize an increase in the size of our active Army and Marine Corps by 92,000 in the next five years." The 92,000 figure was put forward by Defense...

New York, February 1, 2007—Responding to an international outcry over the murder of Russia’s top investigative reporter, President Vladimir Putin vowed today to protect the press, a pledge welcomed by the Committee to Protect Journalists. For the first time Putin also acknowledged the importance of the work of Anna Politkovskaya, whose murder in October put the spotlight on Russia’s growing...

The Associated Press has repeated its call for the US military to charge or release one of its freelance photographers whose been jailed in Iraq without charge since April last year. The news wire service said yesterday that Bilal Hussein is accused of being a “security threat” though it stressed no evidence has been produced to substantiate the claim since he was arrested 10 months ago. An...

NEW DELHI: The first-ever South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) editors' conference, organised by the External Affairs Ministry and the Media Development Foundation (MDF), a not-for-profit public trust that runs the prestigious Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) in Chennai, will be held here on February 9 and 10. Giving this information, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej...

The Wall Street Journal is looking to launch its website in a range of foreign languages as the 118-year-old newspaper, owned by Dow Jones & Company, seeks to bolster its position outside its core US market. The Wall Street Journal's publisher Gordon Crovitz also admitted that the company would be interested in buying the Financial Times should its owner Pearson ever put it up for sale, something...

Mangalore Jan 31: A newspaper office was attacked by miscreants this evening in Mangalore. An office belonging to evening daily Karavali Ale (a sister concern of Canara Times), was attacked by some miscreants today 30 Jan 2007, evening at Baikampady industrial area. Watchman who was on duty at the time of incident was also said to have been attacked by the mob. Computers, Laser Printers and other...