WASHINGTON (AA) – The Department of Justice on Friday charged three individuals with plotting to carry out the assassination of a US journalist critical of the Iranian government. A 25-page indictment unsealed on Friday in the Southern District of New York charged Iranian national Rafat Amirov, 43; Polad Omarov, 38, of the Czech Republic...
ANKARA (AA) – The ban imposed on the screening of a BBC documentary about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has triggered a controversy in the South Asian nation. On Wednesday, another university in the national capital New Delhi warned students against screening the documentary without “permission.” A student group at Delhi’s Jamia Mi...
NEW DELHI (AA) – The Indian government has blocked all social media content related to the first episode of the BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question.” The documentary pertains to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership as chief minister of western Gujarat state during the 2002 riots that killed close to 2000 people, m...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah on Tuesday condemned cartoons ridiculing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei published by Charlie Hebdo magazine, calling on France to punish the satirical weekly. In a statement, Hezbollah termed the French caricatures of the Iranian leader an “ugly act”. The Lebanese group called on the French g...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces have killed 55 Palestinian journalists since 2000, according to a local journalists’ syndicate. “Fifty-five reporters have been killed either by Israeli fire or bombardment since 2000,” Naser Abu Baker, head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), told a press conference in the West Bank ...
Thiès, Senegal (AFP): “They made us join up to wage war,” said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades to when he and other young Senegalese donned uniforms to fight for distant France. “We didn’t know where we were going.” The wizened old soldier is one of the last survivors of [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused the West of adopting “double standards” on freedom of media. Speaking at the 7th Anatolian Media Awards ceremony in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said: “Those accusing Türkiye of censorship remain silent about those (Twitter) doing real cens...
DETROIT, Michigan (AA) – Twitter CEO Elon Musk has claimed on his social media platform that the US “Government paid Twitter millions of dollars to censor information from the public.” Musk’s communication is a retweet of a lengthy thread from Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, entitled, “THE TWITTER FIL...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – The latest “Twitter Files” thread exposing the inner workings of pre-Elon Musk Twitter discloses how the social media giant helped the US military with a secret ‘PsyOp’ campaign. “Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media gi...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has accused The New York Times of calling for undermining his prospective government. “After burying the Holocaust for years on its back pages and demonizing Israel for decades on its front pages, the New York Times now shamefully calls for undermining Israel’s elected incomi...
