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Governments in the European Union must step up their work to protect human rights defenders, groups representing journalists and others working in the field who are increasingly at risk, have said. In an appeal to the British government, currently holding the presidency of the European Union, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the National Union of Journalists in Britain and...

China and Belarus signed an agreement on journalism and publication cooperation in Beijing on Monday. Cai Wu, head of China's State Council Information Office (SCIO), and Vladimir Rusakevich, information minister of Belarus, signed the agreement. According to the agreement, the two departments will exchange news on the two countries' politics, economy and culture through news agencies...

CAIRO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Arab-American relations have reached a critical stage. Misconceptions, on both sides of the divide, threaten to undermine the desires of mainstream citizens for peace, stability and democratic progression. Mass media in the Middle East, and the broadcast sector in particular, stand the greatest chance of helping bridge the gap of understanding and repair some of the damage...

The Moroccan government has blocked access to websites dealing with the Polisario Front's struggle for Sahrawi independence. Western Sahara websites like arso.org, cahiersdusahara.com, cahiersdusahara.com, wsahara.net and spsrasd.info have all been rendered inaccessible in Morocco since November 21, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). A man shows a card

There's this scene in the movie The Longest Day – after the Allies have stormed ashore at one of the least-protected parts of Nazi-occupied Europe – where a German general slaps his forehead. "Normandy," he says. "How stupid of me." Before yesterday, it didn't take acute psychic powers to know that some sort of big media deal was coming with BCE Inc.'s Bell Globemedia at the centre. But now that...

CEBU CITY–THE KAPISANAN ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) in Cebu together with other media groups will start holding training programs on how to use firearms next year. Alarmed by Thursday’s killing of radio reporter George Benaojan, KBP-Cebu president Edward Abad said yesterday he was endorsing the plan to arm the media. Abad, who manages ABC-21 here, said Benaojan’s death convinced him that...

Tanzanian authorities ordered Saturday the closure of two newspaper for allegedly violating the country's law. The Prime Minister's Office ordered Tanzania Daima not to publish from December 3 to December 5, while Amani, a weekly tabloid, is to suspend production and distribution for 28 days. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa (C) poses for a photograph with members of the UN Security Council

A Haitian journalist and his father were released on Saturday by a group of gunmen after kidnappers settled for a lower-than-expected amount of ransom, according to reports from Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. Haitians wait for a UN peacekeeper tank to pass during clashes between Haitian rebels and UN peacekeepers in the volatile neighborhood of Citi-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 26

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (Bernama) -- The NAM News Network (NNN) will be launched in the first quarter of next year, said Information Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir. He said the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) which had been entrusted by the NAM (Non-Alignment Movement) to make it a reality, was working hard towards that deadline. "God willing, it will be launched in February or...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - A court in Niger has jailed a local journalist for two months for publishing a report which suggested the country's state treasurer could face charges of embezzlement. Siddo Elhadj, who as state treasurer is a public servant in charge of the treasury, filed a complaint after the privately owned "Le Visionnaire" reported he might stand trial for embezzling almost 17 billion (17.3...