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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A prominent Malaysian newspaper avoided punishment for publishing a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad drawings controversy, offering an apology accepted by the government Friday. The New Straits Times angered many Muslims groups in Malaysia by running the Non Sequitur strip on Monday, even though the cartoon did not show the prophet. Muslim groups said it mocked Islam...

(AXcess News) Washington - Some editorial cartoonists and other journalists Friday applauded U.S. newspapers that reprinted the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. "Our newspapers ought to have shown the cartoons to say this is what has caused so much trouble," said Signe Wilkinson, a Pulitzer Prize wining cartoonist for the Philadelphia Daily News. Wilkinson said U.S. newspapers...

STOCKHOLM: As the uproar over Prophet Muhammad cartoons continues to roil the world, the crisis has come home to the region where it originated, striking a major blow to traditional Scandinavian solidarity. Despite the strong historical and cultural links the countries share - and their centuries of close cooperation, known here as "Nordism" - Sweden and Norway have carefully chosen to distance...

I wholly sympathise with those anguished editors, who have demanded that the PoMo Muslims, my acronym for poor and moderate Muslims, ought to speak up more often. However, the PoMo Muslims are so called because of the poverty of what they have left to say. Besides they are easily outnumbered by the genuine PoMo Muslims. On the other hand, for the last 25 years, more particularly in the last five...

BEIJING – At 5 p.m. on Jan. 24, Li Datong's status went into a deep chill. Mr. Li, a Tiananmen protest veteran and a rare crusading editor still allowed to work, learned that "Freezing Point," his weekly magazine, had been closed. The proximate reason: a lengthy article smashing official history of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, when a peasant cult killed more than 230 foreigners in a spasm of...

LONDON - The Specator and the Literary Review are among four consumer publications trying out a new digital service, which allows readers to flick through magazines online as as if they were printed editions. The Spectator and the Literary Review, along with The Scientist and the London Review of Books, are the first four magazines available on the new platform, which was created by Exact Editions...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria on Friday disputed U.S. charges it had incited mob violence over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, saying Damascus had done its best to protect embassies during violent protests and would pay for damages. Dozens of Syrian police and security officers had been injured protecting foreign embassies during February 4 demonstrations in Damascus that started out...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed concern at the growing trend of violent attacks by rightwing outfits against journalists in Maharashtra. "Disagreement with views cannot be the reason to attack media houses. The media must be allowed to remain independent, and encouraged to resist pressure tactics, from whichever direction they come," said IFJ president Christopher...

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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned that the escalating violence in Iraq, which has seen a number of journalists killed in recent days, is forcing all media – both local and international – into hiding, with increasing lawlessness and violence not being properly covered. EASY PREYS: Former French hostage in Iraq Florence Aubenas (C) chats with a colleagues from Liberation...