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CHILE: Stop Treating Community Broadcasters as Criminals, Say Activists
By Pamela Sepúlveda
SANTIAGO - Criminal law should not be used against freedom of expression, nor to silence community radio stations in Chile, say activists and journalists in response to closures of community radio outlets in this South American country.
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MIGRATION: Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That
By Enrique Gili
SAN DIEGO, California - Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has made a career for himself tweaking the sensibilities of government officials and developing software tools meant to disrupt the status quo.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Global South's Growing Role in Post-Crisis World
By Denise Ribeiro*
SALVADOR DA BAHIA, Brazil - "Society and Governments: debates and alternatives for a post-crisis world" is the name of a Thematic World Social Forum meeting being held in the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
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MEDIA: Foreign News Channels Drawing U.S. Viewers
By Haider Rizvi
NEW YORK - Television viewers in the United States seeking international news are starting to switch over to foreign channels to learn what is happening in the outside world, media watchers here say.
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US-CHINA: Spat Escalates Over Internet Freedom
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The stern warning given to China by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning internet censorship and responding to allegations that Chinese hackers had accessed Google email addresses has received a pointed response from the Chinese government, raising questions over what the next move will be for Google, the United States, and U.S. firms that do business in China.
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HAITI: Sending Hope over the Airwaves
By Ansel Herz
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Throughout the earthquake's aftermath, the voices of many Port-Au-Prince radio stations have been loud and clear.
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COSTA RICA: Last-Ditch Leftwing Alliance to 'Save' the Country
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ - Political forces on the left in Costa Rica have formed a partial last-minute alliance to support Ottón Solís, the presidential candidate for the centre-left Citizens' Action Party (PAC), in a bid to counter the conservative lead that the polls predict for the upcoming Feb. 7 elections.
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U.S.: Clinton Criticises China over Internet Censorship
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech Thursday laying out the Barack Obama administration's position on internet freedom, and publicly called on Chinese authorities to investigate the security breaches which preceded last week's decision by Google to end its cooperation with Chinese internet censorship.
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HAITI: Social Networks Offer News, and Comfort
By Garry Pierre-Pierre*
PORT-AU-PRINCE - On Tuesday, Jan. 12, a small story from the Associated Press came across the wires that an earthquake had hit Haiti. Almost instantly, phones began to ring as Haitian Americans started calling each other to find out if there was more to this story.
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MEXICO: Journalists' Options - Silence, Exile or the Grave
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Journalists are the target of such violence in Mexico that many have been forced to seek refuge in the United States, or to give up their profession. And the outlook at the start of this year is even grimmer for media workers in this country.
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MEXICO: Activists Worried About "Secret" Internet Treaty
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - An international treaty to combat copyright infringement and piracy, being negotiated by Mexico and other countries, could curtail expansion of the internet, violate people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression, and undermine multilateral accords on intellectual property, activists warn.
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MEDIA-US: Afghanistan Dominated TV Foreign News in 2009
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Afghanistan and the U.S. military escalation in the civil war there dominated foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks in 2009, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
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DEVELOPMENT: Clinton Lays Out U.S. Strategy
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday pledged to make development, along with defence and diplomacy, "a central pillar" of U.S. foreign policy and results, rather than ideology, a guiding principle in devising development policy.
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