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Police arrested a TV reporter and a gas station attendant in Fukuoka Prefecture on Sunday on suspicion of gang-raping a high school student last November, local police said. The suspects are identified as Hiroyuki Kitamura, 29, a reporter at RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corp., and Toshio Tashima, 39. They both have admitted to the allegations, according to the police. "If the suspicions are true...

Paris - A CNN journalist in Paris on Wednesday described as "regrettable" a comparison made by the US chain's anchor between jobs protests in Paris and the Tiananmen Square uprising in Beijing. "Unfortunately I have to say that this reference to Tiananmen was regrettable," said Chris Burns during a reception with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy. "It was one small comment by a...

The Muhammad cartoon controversy greatly increased the amount of anti-Semitic material in Arab and Muslim newspapers, according to a report issued by the Anti-Defamation League over the weekend. The report highlighted cartoons and opinion pieces that demonized Jews, Israel and the Holocaust in media across the Arab world and in Iran. The publications cited depicted Jews in "outrageous and deeply...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- On his last visit to Iran, Canadian-based blogger Hossein Derakhshan was detained and interrogated, then forced to sign a letter of apology for his blog writings before being allowed to leave the country. Compared to others, Mr. Derakhshan is lucky. Dozens of Iranian bloggers over the last two years have faced harassment by the government, been arrested for voicing...

WASHINGTON, March 31 – The transformation of American politics by the Internet is accelerating with the approach of the 2006 Congressional and 2008 White House elections, producing far-reaching changes in the way campaigns approach advertising, fund-raising, the mobilizing of supporters and even the spreading of negative information. Democrats and Republicans are sharply increasing their use of e...

Blogger Michael Yon spent 10 months embedded with the military in Iraq looking for success stories, becoming the poster boy for those who say the mainstream media are not reporting good news from the war-torn country. But ask the Winter Haven native about criticism from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others that mainstream news reporters are missing the real story of achievement in...

On the chaotic streets of central Mumbai, where taxis and motorised rickshaws clog the polluted streets below the city's dilapidated colonial buildings, there is a newspaper vendor on every corner. The array of titles on display, laid out on collapsible plywood tables, makes even the vibrant British market seems positively sedate. Dozens of daily broadsheets and tabloids, regional and national...

Coimbatore: The Coimbatore Press Club today condemned the 'illegal arrest and assault' of the reporter of the Tamil magazine 'Kumudam' in Erode yesterday for 'unknown reasons'. In a statement, press club General Secretary, G Jehova, said the reporter, Sakthi alias Gomathi Shankar, was assaulted and absued by police after taking him to Erode taluka police station, which amounted to human rights...

An American freelance journalist who was released after being held hostage in Iraq for nearly three months says she was forced at gunpoint to criticize the United States while in captivity. "During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video," Jill Carroll said in a statement written at the U.S. airbase in Ramstein, Germany. "Things that I was forced to...

Jill Carroll , the freed American journalist, will return to the United States from Baghdad in a few days, her newspaper said, as details emerged of her 82-day captivity in Iraq. The Christian Science Monitor, where the 28-year-old worked as a freelancer when she was kidnapped on January 7, said Carroll was warned that she may be killed if she talked with US officials after her release. After her...