KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s military government said on Monday it had suspended France 24 broadcasts after the TV station ran an interview with the head of the al-Qaeda’s North African wing. The channel aired an interview with Yezid Mebarek, head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), earlier this month. Mebarek, also known [&hell...
Tulkarm, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the first killing in the occupied West Bank during Ramadan. Amir Imad Abu Khadija, 25, was killed by “the Israeli occupation bullets during their aggression on Tulkarm,” the ministry said in a statement...
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir (AA) – A freelance journalist, Irfan Mehraj, in Indian-occupied Kashmir has been arrested by the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with an ongoing probe into alleged “NGO terror funding case,” said an official statement released on Tuesday. “Following comprehensive investig...
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan (AFP): A bomb blast in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday killed a security guard and wounded a group of journalists, as well as several children, police and a witness said. The blast took place during an event honouring Afghanistan’s media at a cultural centre in Mazar-i-Sharif. Police sai...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party halted printing on Monday after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation. Campaigners and foreign governments including the United States have long expressed worries about efforts by Prime Ministe...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A day after tax authorities’ search ended at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) offices in India, the Ministry of Finance on Friday said that Income Tax Department conducted a survey of a prominent international media company and found “discrepancies and inconsistencies” in tax records. “The survey revealed that ...
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...
