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• La crisis como oportunidad · ELPAÍS.com

  
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  La crisis como oportunidad · ELPAÍS.com
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• Journalist kidnapped and executed in northern Mexico

  
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  A journalist was kidnapped and killed in Durango state in northern Mexico on 2 November.Bladimir Antuna García, a reporter for the police section of El Tiempo de Durango newspaper, was found dead on Monday according to the Durango attorney general’s office. Antuna García had been kidnapped by an armed group early ...
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• Somali journalists held for photographing military action

  
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  War photographer and AFP stringer, Mohamed Dahir and Mohamoud Muktar Koofi, a Universal TV cameraman, were arrested and detained for 48 hours on 28 October after they were seen photographing African Union tanks firing at Bakara Market, Mogadishu. The journalists, arrested by Government police, were held at the ...
  5 days ago

• Yemen: reporter banned for life

  
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  Munir Al Mawari was sentenced on 31 October to two years in prison and given a lifelong ban on practising journalism for libelling President Ali Abdallah Saleh. In the same case, editor Samir Jubran received a suspended one-year prison sentence and a ban on practising journalism for a year. Both men work for the ...
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• Zimbabwe: MDC censored

  
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  Zimbabwe’s ministry of Media, Information and Publicity has ordered the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and public newspapers to stop reporting on ministers from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), until Morgan Tsvangirai and his party reverse its decision to withdraw contact with ...
  6 days ago

• Court orders liquidation of Grenada newspaper

  
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  Grenadian high court Judge Claire Henry ordered the liquidation, on 22 October, of the “Grenada Today” newspaper after the owners failed to reach an agreement with former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell over the settlement of an EC$191,000 (US$71,135) libel award.The paper’s editor, George Worme, a veteran ...
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• Ayuso se valió de su cargo municipal para copar el 90% de los proyectos de urbanismo locales. La Verdad

  
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  arquitecto municipal murciano, tramita media docena de hoteles y más de 2500 viviendas por medio de su empresa que se llamaba   Gyps Fulvus S.L. , nombre latino del buitre común- Ayuso se valió de su cargo municipal para copar el 90% de los proyectos de urbanismo locales. La Verdad gracias josé!!!1
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• Multiple arrests made in Burma

  
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  It was reported on 30 October that up to 50 people including 10 journalists, political activists and students have been arrested in Rangoon. Although no official reason behind the arrests has been given it is thought they were part of an attempt to tighten security across Rangoon by Burmese authorities. Read more here
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• Croatia: eight indicted over Pukanić murder

  
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  Investigations conducted in Croatia and Serbia have led to the indictment on 26 October of eight individuals accused of murdering Ivo Pukanić, the owner of political weekly Nacional. Sreten Jocić, a wealthy Serbian businessman indicted for two other murders, is the most prominent individual to be named. Pukanić, ...
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• Hashtag Hilarity

  
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  Rhode Island’s Knowledge Retention Summit made an interesting decision when they chose a Twitter hashtag. ### Possibly related posts: Turning Landfills into Parks I grew up playing youth soccer on fields that were... Biggest Little I didn’t have an accurate perception of how Rhode Island... ...
  1 week ago

• UAE: journalist fired for revealing airline safety concerns

  
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  American journalist Courtney C Radsch was fired from her post at Al Arabiya news on 5 October for uncovering breaches of safety at Emirates Airlines. Radsch had written an article on pilot fatigue in the airline. Within 24 hours of the article’s release, Radsch was made redundant. As visas are granted to foreigners ...
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• Mexican journalist receive death threats

  
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  Maria de los Ángeles González Hernández, columnist at the newspaper “El Político” has reportedly received a number of anonymous death threats by email, allegedly from local labour leaders in Xalapa, Veracruz, southern Mexico.On 22 October, the journalist said she had received seven emails with threats against ...
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• Canada: Sikh editor attacked by gunmen

  
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  Jagdish Grewal, founder and editor and editor of Brampton (Canada)-based newspaper “Punjabi Post” was attacked by three masked men armed with a baton and a gun outside the newspaper’s offices, on 23 October.Mr. Grewal, who also hosts a daily Punjabi radio show, said it is highly probable that the attack was ...
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• Russia: Pro-Kremlin youth group sues four European papers

  
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  The pro-Kremlin youth organisation Nashi has launched a legal offensive against four European newspapers over allegations that its activists issued death threats against a journalist. Le Monde, Le Journal du Dimanche, The Independent and Frankfurter Rundschau reported that journalist Alexandr Podrabinek was the target ...
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• Peru: TV journalist charged with inciting violence

  
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  The judge of the Alto Amazonas First Mixed Tribunal has initiated criminal proceedings against Acate Geovanni, director of Radio Oriente and Channel 8 TV, alleging that his coverage of a protest by indigenous people in May incited his audience to violence and public disorder.The incident took place in Yurimaguas in ...
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• Bangladesh: Reporter tortured by elite police unit

  
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  F.M Masum, a journalist for the English-language daily The New Age, was arrested on 22 October and tortured in Dhaka. He was held by the Rapid Action Battalion, an elite crime and counterterrorist force. It is believed that his arrest and torture is in relation to The New Age having published articles linking the ...
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• Arrests in Tibet following online distribution of material

  
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  Reports have emerged about the arrest of three young Tibetans after they used instant messages to distribute recordings and photographs of the Dalai Lama. The arrests of Gyaltsen, Nymia Wangchuk, and Yeshe Namkha are the latest in the clampdown against Tibetans using the Internet to send information abroad. Several ...
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• Ben Ali re-elected in atmosphere of media repression

  
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  Tunisian President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali has won a fifth term in office, receiving 86% of the vote. The election outcome was expected. Tunisia’s most prominent opposition figures did not take part in the election, while one of Ali’s challengers on the ballot acknowledged he had no chance of winning. Human rights ...
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• Rapper’s Delight is 30 Years Old

  
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  In a column celebrating the the 30th anniversary of Sugar Hill Gang’s seminal hit ‘Rapper’s Delight’, this Boston Globe column discusses how odd it is that the song is one of the few pop hits in recent history to not have a chorus, while barely touching on the fact that it’s probably the only pop hit in ...
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• Guidelines for super injunctions to be introduced

  
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  Junior Justice Minister Bridget Prentice revealed on 21 October that Justice Secretary Jack Straw has called on senior judges and lawyers representing major newspapers to discuss the fit and proper use of super injunctions. It follows the issuing of a super injunction by the courts that inadvertently prevented the ...
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