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GAZA (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians protested against Denmark on Tuesday for allowing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad to be published, and Arab ministers called on the Copenhagen government to punish the newspaper that printed them. Demonstrators burned Danish flags, chanted "War on Denmark, Death to Denmark" and called for an Arab boycott of products from the small north European country...

A simmering controversy exploded into a firestorm of protest across the Middle East on 30 January over a series of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that were printed in two Scandinavian newspapers. From Gaza to Cairo, from Beirut to Baghdad, demonstrators took to the streets as religious leaders and politicians threatened economic boycotts -- and worse -- if the newspapers did not condemn the...

Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, meeting with the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in Copenhagen this weekend, chose to take a positive view of the increasingly volatile conflict over newspaper Jyllands-Posten's caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. Karzai, in Europe to attend the World Economic Forum, was visiting Denmark to discuss the country's contribution to the...

Brussels, Jan 31, IRNA: The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, repeated Tuesday warnings of reprisals against countries which impose a trade boycott on Denmark for publication of cartoons insulting Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) "Any WTO member state that backed boycott of this kind would expose itself to serious criticisms under the WTO. We cannot rule out the possibility of such...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A Danish Muslim group Tuesday accepted an apology from a newspaper that published offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but said later that it had decided the statement was ambiguous. The group did not elaborate and it was unclear if there would be any effect on protests and boycotts of Danish goods in Muslim countries. The offices of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten were...

Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has blinked finally. With Denmark standing in the danger of its trade ties with Muslim countries, particularly those in the Middle East, breaking down, the daily has tendered a virtual apology to the citizens of Saudi Arabia for 'erroneously publishing the cartoons that are offensive to the Prophet'. FIRED UP: Members of Palestinian militant group Popular...

BASRA, Iraq – A roadside bomb targeted a joint Danish-Iraqi military patrol near the southern city of Basra on Monday _ the first attack on Danish troops since protests against a Danish newspaper for publishing widely criticized caricatures of Islam's prophet. There were no casualties in the attack, which occurred as the troops crossed a bridge in a rural area about 60 miles north of Basra, Iraq's...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Jan 30, 2006 – Masked gunmen on Monday briefly took over a European Union office to protest a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the latest in a wave of violent denunciations of the caricatures across the Islamic world. The gunmen demanded an apology from Denmark and Norway, and said citizens of the two countries would be...

Can we finally admit that Muslims have blown out of all proportion their outrage over 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper last September? In the latest twist, last week both the Organization for the Islamic Conference and the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned a Norwegian newspaper for reprinting the drawings - a decision the publication defended as...

A new report has highlighted a worldwide trend of experienced senior staff being replaced by younger graduates who are often employed on a casual or freelance basis and on less pay. The report –The Changing Nature of Work: A Global Survey – polled 41 journalists' organisations in 38 countries that are affiliated to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), including the All-India...