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FRANCE: 'Excited Little Boy' Takes Hold of the Media
By Julio Godoy
PARIS - The media in France, already in a heavy financial and credibility crisis, did not need yet another blow. But that is just what it got in President Nicolas Sarkozy's announcement that he will personally pick the directors of the public television and radio broadcasting companies.
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POLITICS-US: New Spying Law Quickly Challenged
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Civil liberties advocates have lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last week.
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CAMBODIA: Scribe's Murder, Temple Dispute Muddy Polls
By Andrew Nette
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia has entered the final week of its national election campaign shocked by the murder of a well-known journalist and facing an increasingly tense standoff with Thailand over a disputed 11th century Hindu temple.
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MIDEAST: Israeli Claims over Journalist Challenged
By Sanjay Suri and Mel Frykberg
LONDON - Medical reports seen by IPS appear to confirm the testimony of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer of physical abuse at the hands of Israelis last month.
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RIGHTS: EU Cautioned Over Aid to Eritrea
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - Aid given by the European Union to Eritrea may be helping to prop up a hugely repressive regime, human rights activists have claimed.
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UKRAINE: 'Free' Media Turning Into PR Agencies
By Zoltán Dujisin
PRAGUE - Freedom of media has improved in Ukraine but media owners are using favourable coverage as a source of income, while journalists continue to face serious threats.
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RIGHTS-ETHIOPIA: New Media Law, New Threat to Press Freedom
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI - A new media law -- six years in the making -- has been passed by Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives. Its preamble declares that "the proclamation removes all obstacles that were impediments to the operation of the media in Ethiopia." But an analysis by Ethiopian journalists finds it actually clears the way for government to continue to harass and persecute the messenger when the message is not in line with the whims of the rulers.
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HONDURAS: The Data You Seek Will Be Available - in 2018
By Thelma Mejía
TEGUCIGALPA - In a highly controversial decision, the Honduran Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) has decided to keep from public scrutiny for 10 years key documents from the Finance Ministry and the tax collection authority.
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PAKISTAN: Two Journalists Kidnapped on Restive Border
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR - The abduction Friday of two Pakistani journalists representing the New York Times (NYT) in troubled Mohmand Agency by pro-Taliban fighters has put the spotlight on a spate of kidnappings for ransom that has swept the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan.
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IRAQ: Journalist Charges Censorship by U.S. Military in Fallujah
By Dahr Jamail
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. journalist Zoriah Miller says he was censored by the U.S. military in the Iraqi city of Fallujah after photographing Marines who died in a suicide bombing.
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MIDEAST: When You Shoot the Messenger
By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY - The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very good job of it.
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MIDEAST: Israelis Assault Award Winning IPS Journalist
By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to return home to Gaza.
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MEDIA: Against Giant Odds, A Touch of Triumph
By Sanjay Suri
GLASGOW - Parents call it the strawberry coloured nightmare. In the suburbs of Cape Town in South Africa they call it 'tik'. Something that mimics the effect of adrenalin. The news feature on 'tik' explores its dangerous spread, interviewing parents and others who talk about the devastation this addiction is bringing to homes and lives. 'Tik' is coloured pink, we learn, to make it more attractive to teenagers.
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