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CARIBBEAN: Media Up in Arms over Licensing Plan
By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Caribbean media groups have drawn a line in the sand, warning regional governments that they will face strenuous opposition to proposed legislation requiring media workers to obtain a license to practice their profession in the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) grouping.
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AFRICA: Government on Collision Course with Civil Society
By Kelvin Kachingwe
LUSAKA - The acquittal of former President Frederick Chiluba on charges of theft after a seven-year long landmark case, and the refusal by the Zambian government to appeal, has put government and civil society on a collision course.
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SIERRA LEONE: Journalists at War with Highest Court
By Mohamed Fofanah
FREETOWN - Umaru Fofana looks dishevelled. His hair is overgrown and people who do not know him could be mistaken for thinking he just joined an Afro band. And his hanging beard will surely solicit suspicious glances.
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EGYPT: Virtually, Some Real Freedom
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Egyptians critical of their government are using new media and the Internet to expose its improprieties and press for social change.
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Q&A: Secrecy, Lies, Power and the Pentagon Papers
Bill Berkowitz interviews filmmaker RICK GOLDSMITH
OAKLAND, California - A little over 38 years ago, when Daniel Ellsberg released the "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times and other newspapers, it set off one of the 20th century's most important battles over government secrecy and freedom of the press.
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SIERRA LEONE: Banned Opposition Radio Station Goes to Court
By Lansana Fofana
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone's largest opposition party has taken the country's media monitoring body to court for banning its radio station.
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POLITICS-ITALY: From Democracy to Videocracy
By Matteo Fracassi
NEW YORK - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, one of the world's most powerful media moguls, is being increasingly accused of using his six news organisations and television channels to manipulate the country's political life and public opinion.
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POLITICS-ITALY: Don't Even Speak of Equality! - Part 2
By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
ROME - Angelica Mucchi-Faina, psychology professor at the Perugia University, thinks that "in Italy you cannot even talk about equal opportunities for women in politics."
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POLITICS-ITALY: Where Are the Women? - Part 1
By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
ROME - Four ministers out of 21; 193 parliamentarians out of 952 (upper and lower houses); no party leaders. Why are there so few women in Italian politics?
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AFGHANISTAN: Media Outrage Over Coalition Killing of Reporter
By Killid Correspondents*
KABUL - For many Afghans, slain Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi has become a symbol for all that is wrong with the United States-led war in Afghanistan.
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COSTA RICA: Media Bill Languishes in Congress
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ - A bill on the press and freedom of expression that has been kicking around in the Costa Rican Congress for the past eight years, which deals with questions like source confidentiality, access to public information, and libel and slander laws, was saved in late August from being permanently shelved by the legislature.
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SERBIA: Media Wakes Up to New Curbs
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - A controversial new law on media came into force in Serbia Tuesday, raising fears that freedom of expression will now be restricted by censorship or self- censorship.
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MIDEAST: Non-Story Sets Off Ripples of Trouble
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - It's not so much the proverbial making-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill, but Israel finds itself climbing out of a stinky dung heap and onto a slippery diplomatic minefield.
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