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THE Middle Eastern news network Al-Jazeera was accused by Donald Rumsfeld, the American defence secretary, of broadcasting "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable" reports about the war in Iraq the day before President George W Bush met Tony Blair at the White House and apparently suggested bombing the station’s headquarters. Rumsfeld denounced the satellite television station at a Pentagon briefing...

If the media’s primary role is to mirror society, meaning society sees itself through the media, then many would reasonably argue that Kenya came out looking bad in the just concluded referendum campaigns. It is a matter that is bound to haunt the Kenyan media for long, but perhaps the enormity of the problem can best be illustrated only by drawing parallels with events in other countries. Perhaps...

Nobody outside the Westminster village would recognise the names of David Keogh and Leo O'Connor. One is a former Cabinet Office official, the other a researcher for an MP who lost his seat at the last election. But the crime of which they are accused concerns two men who are firmly in the public eye: Tony Blair and George Bush. On Tuesday, Mr Keogh, 49, the civil servant, and Mr O'Connor, 42, who...

RABAT – For the second time in less than a year, the Moroccan authorities have initiated legal action against the Press. This time it is against a journalist who wrote about the life of princesses in the Moroccan Royal Palace. A report by the official Moroccan News Agency (MNA) said the General Prosecutor of the Casablanca Primary Court had summoned the officials of the independent Arabic Al Ayyam...

(NewsYemen) Nov 26, Sanaa – The Western Capital Secretary Court forwarded today the case filed against Al-Thowri opposition newspaper and its columnist Mohamed Al-Maqaleh to the appeals court of Sanaa. The appeals court is expected to rule on the objection of Al-Thowri and Al-Maqaleh’s lawyer, who said the Western Court does not fall into the geographical zone of the defendants. The defendants’...

The staff strike at Libération, one of France's leading dailies, may have ended, but with a steadily eroding circulation base and fast decreasing revenues stormier days lie in store for the newspaper. STRIKING MAJORITY: The decision was adopted by 218 employees with just five votes against and 13 abstentions. They agreed to insert a four-page supplement in Saturday's edition of the paper to

An anchor with Russia's last big television station openly critical of President Vladimir Putin has been ordered off the air. REN TV anchor Olga Romanova said on Friday that security guards blocked her way when she arrived for work on Thursday night. SMILES TO GO: Popular anchor Olga Romanova said she has still not been allowed to enter the studio. "The studio has been put under guard. The

LONDON (Reuters) - The British Broadcasting Corporation has upheld a complaint against one of its journalists who said in a radio report she cried when a dying Yasser Arafat was flown from the West Bank in 2004. Barbara Plett made the remark in a dispatch for the "From Our Own Correspondent" programme describing how she felt when a helicopter carrying Arafat, who was gravely ill, took off from his...

Journalists and human rights activists fear freedom of speech is under threat in Kyrgyzstan after a call from country’s new chief prosecutor for a media crackdown. Prosecutor Kambaraly Kongantiev told a meeting of the Kyrgyz Security Council attended by President Kurmanbek Bakiev that the government should move against media outlets "which inflame passions and destabilise the situation in the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 (Bernama) -- Cuba will continue the work undertaken by Malaysia to revitalise the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) once the Caribbean country assumes the leadership of the 114-member movement from Malaysia in September next year, Minister of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Ernesto Lopez Dominguez said here Friday. He said Cuba would continue to work to strengthen the...