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Radio Liberty journalist Ogulsapar Muradova has died in prison in Turkmenistan with reported injuries to her head, the station says. A relative reported the news after family members were asked by officials to identify her body in a mortuary in the capital, Ashgabat. Her children are quoted as saying the body has "marks on the neck" and a "large wound" on the head. Turkmen officials reportedly...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan may consider granting permission for the shooting of a film about slain U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, an official said on Thursday. Police last month detained crew members who were shooting for the movie "A Mighty Heart" near the hotel in the southern city of Karachi from where the Wall Street Journal reporter was abducted in early 2002. Actress Angelina Jolie will...

VILNIUS - Lithuania’s State Security Department came under attack last week after detaining a journalist for procuring and intending to publish state secrets. Both the president and journalists decried the move as a violation of the freedom of the press, and several MPs have taken the department’s top officials to task. The department, meanwhile, has launched an investigation into the leak, and...

Srinagar: The Chief Justice J&K High Court on Wednesday heard the arguments in the case filed by Ghulam Nabi Shaida, Editor of local Urdu daily “Wadi Ki Awaz” against Chandan Mitra, Editor of New Delhi-based daily “The Pioneer” and another case seeking transfer of the petition filed by Mitra against Shaida before the High Court at Jammu. On the last date of hearing, the counsel appearing for Mitra...

According to the National Readership Survey, the number of readers of newspapers has remained more or less unchanged. Although the readership figures of dailies are generally on a slight decline, no statistically significant changes have happened between September 2005 and the spring of 2006, verifies research director Marjo Malik from Taloustutkimus, a privately-owned market research company. The...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Information ministers and officials meeting under the auspices of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's largest Islamic body, said Islam faced...

MUMBAI: Newspaper publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd said on Wednesday it had agreed with Ireland's Independent News Media Plc to publish the facsimile edition of Independent newspaper from New Delhi. The Indian company has sought the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's approval for this, Jagran's Chief Financial Officer RK Agarwal said. The company hopes to obtain the approval in a month, he said...

New York, September 13, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of an Iraqi photographer today in Baghdad and a journalist in Diyala province yesterday by unidentified gunmen. Safa Isma’il Enad, 31, a freelance photographer for several outlets including the now-defunct newspaper Al-Watan, was shot in a photo print shop in Baghdad’s Ur neighborhood, according to the...

Jakarta --- When criticized for the over-the-top soap operas, invasive gossip shows and bloody crime programs that dominate their schedules, most TV stations protest their innocence by claiming they only give the people what they want. But if the results of a new survey are to be believed, the stations will have to find either a new excuse or new programs. According to the survey, TV viewers want...

MADRID, Spain - The Spanish national news agency Efe is moving its Latin America text and photo editing desks from Miami to Bogota, Colombia, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. Ana Vaca de Osma said the decision was made in an effort to be closer to clients in Latin America, and had nothing to do with the company's revenue or market share in the United States. Efe's Spanish-language coverage of U...