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Gunmen killed the director of Iraq's public television channel and his driver Saturday, the second killing this month of a figure who shapes broadcast news coverage of the country's sectarian strife, agencies reported quoting police sources. BEREAVED AND WIDOWED: The wife of Amjad Hameed, a senior Iraqi state television editor, weeps during his funeral in Baghdad March 11, 2006. Gunmen...

FIFA has abandoned plans to restrict the use of images from the World Cup finals on media internet sites following a meeting between president Sepp Blatter and Timothy Balding, CEO of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). TIME TO SMILE: Franz Beckenbauer, left, President of the German organising committee for Word Cup 2006, with FIFA President Joseph 'Sepp' Blatter at a party on the occasion...

Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller today received a petition with 60,000 signatures calling for reconciliation between Denmark and the Muslim world following the crisis over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons. Organisers of the campaign "Forsoning Nu," or "Reconciliation Now," urged all parties, particularly the governments of Denmark and other countries involved in the dispute, "to work together to...

Brussels: Luv Puri, the Jammu-based journalist for The Hindu, has been awarded the European Union’s Natali Prize for articles on human rights and democracy. Puri, 26, won the third prize for his article published in The Hindu, "In an alien land". The story was a poignant account of two Pakistani boys who had crossed the India-Pakistan border and had landed in the Kot Bhalwal Jail with a group of...

The Christian Science Monitor has reinvigorated its Iraqi media campaign to free journalist Jill Carroll, who was on assignment for the paper when she was kidnapped on Jan. 7, 2006. The effort is focused on reminding Iraqis of her situation as she marks two months in captivity. Television stations with national and local reach in Iraq are broadcasting public-service announcements in Arabic that...

Mar 11, 2006 (DVB) - Renowned Burmese journalist Win Tin who has been detained at the notorious Rangoon Insein Jail for 17 years, is not allowed to celebrate his birthday which falls on 12 March. Moreover, Win Tin’s health condition is very poor as he has been suffering from high blood pressures, acute heart condition and diabetes, and he has been given medical check-ups once a month, according to...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The regional trial court here has acquitted a former police officer accused of masterminding the assassination of broadcaster Ely Binoya. Judge Oscar Noel on March 6 ordered the release from detention of Ephraim Englis, alias Toto. Englis walked out of the Sarangani provincial jail the next day. Noel said prosecutors failed to prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that Englis had...

NEW YORK The search marketing industry now has 90 million reasons to take click fraud more seriously. In what may set an ominous precedent for the lavishly praised search advertising marketplace, Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit with an Arkansas company by awarding $90 million worth of advertising credit for any and all marketers who can claim they have been subject to click fraud. In a...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Muslim preachers and scholars on Friday called for reconciliation between the West and the Islamic world following the prophet cartoon uproar but told a conference on religious dialogue the Danish government had mishandled the crisis. "We feel there are forces of extremism which are aiming to light fires and transform Denmark from a peaceful country to a country which will...

Microsoft on Wednesday denied providing Chinese authorities with information that led to the arrest of a Chinese journalist on charges of incitement to subversion. Reports emerged Tuesday that journalist Li Yuanlong was charged last month for using a Hotmail account to post articles on an overseas Web site under a pseudonym. "Microsoft did not assist the Chinese government in this action, nor have...