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New York, May 8, 2006 - A Russian prosecutor has said he will appeal the acquittal by a Moscow jury of two Chechens charged with the July 2004 murder of Forbes Russia editor-in-chief Paul Klebnikov. Prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin said on Saturday he would challenge the verdict in the Supreme Court, as allowed under Russian law, because of "flagrant procedural violations" during the trial, local and...

Beth gets more than 500 hits per day at her blog, Cursed to First, which serves as a very personal homage to the Red Sox and the Patriots, so she knew that spicy entries like ''Chicks dig the long ball" were being read. She didn't realize until recently that they were also being ripped off. Last month, an alert reader informed Beth that her blog was being plagiarized. Dozens of Beth's blog entries...

Yahoo will on Monday unveil a long-promised overhaul of its online advertising system, setting the stage for a showdown with Google and Microsoft in the race to dominate the fast-growing search engine advertising industry. Like Microsoft, which formally launched its own online advertising platform last week, Yahoo also said its new technology had been designed to handle the next wave of targeted...

AMMAN, Jordan (UPI) -- As if living in a turbulent Middle East is not hard enough. Try being a journalist, especially an Arab one, and the risks on your safety immediately shoot up. This is how the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders described the Middle East and North Africa in its annual report released on May 3 marking the 16th World Press Freedom Day: 'The world`s most dangerous region for...

A New York ad agency has dropped its lawsuit against a midcoast man who had used an Internet blog to criticize Maine's internet tourism marketing campaign. In a one-page document filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Bangor, Warren Kremer Paino Advertising LLC dismissed its lawsuit against Lance Dutson of Searsmont. The agency sued Dutson last month for libel, defamation and copyright...

London (KurdishMedia.com) 6 May 2006: The PUK Security Forces and the Directorate of Halabja Monument have filed a court case against a women journalist, Ms Mesture Mahmud Muhammad, report Kurdish weekly Hawlati last Wednesday. Mestrue interviewed one of the protesters of Halabja Day, 16 March. The interview was published in bimonthly Rewan which is specific for women issues. Mesture told Hawlati...

LONDON, May 6 (IranMania) - The offices of an Iranian reformist daily newspaper was attacked overnight and its entrance blown up, the paper's public relations officer told AFP Saturday. "Around 4:30 in the morning they blew up the sign board and the entrance, but nobody has been hurt," said Jamshid Irani of the Etemad-Melli newspaper, adding that the attackers were unknown. Launched in February...

The Western media have the right to show images that can potentially cause uproar, political turmoil or insult religious groups, argues Roger Koeppel, editor-in-chief of the center-right German paper Die Welt. Koeppel's remarks were made during a debate entitled "Is free expression sacred?" to commemorate UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day 2006, which honors "the media as a force for change" and for...

The student newspaper at the College of DuPage on Friday published the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that caused widespread protests, many of them violent, across the Islamic world earlier this year. But copies of the Courier newspaper were hard to find on the Glen Ellyn campus Friday, a college spokesman said, because most of the free papers had been removed from distribution bins. The...

New York, May 5, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about criminal defamation charges recently filed by Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong against politicians responsible for the production of an opposition-run newspaper, The New Democrat. The Lees' lawyer also threatened to file defamation charges against Melodies Press Co...