Liverpool John Moores university has dropped its libel case against Conservative MP Robert Halfon, who had criticised the university’s alleged commercial links with the regime of Colonel Gadaffi.
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Sri Lanka: opposition newspaper editor badly beaten
Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan, editor of the Tamil-language daily Uthayan, was on Friday evening beaten by unidentified men with iron bars in the...
China: journalist detained, beaten after reporting riots
Translated screenshots from journalist Lu Chaoguo's Tencent microblog account reveal his detention and mistreatment by police after reporting on...
China: social media response to Wenzhou crash challenges censorship
The potent reaction from both Chinese netizens and mainstream media in response to Sunday's deadly train crash in Wenzhou has shown how the state's...
Afghanistan: journalist killed in Taliban attack
Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, a stringer working for the BBC in Afghanistan, has been killed during a Taliban raid on a TV station in Uruzgan province,...
Guinea: censorship measures put pressure on RFI
Guinea's state-controlled media regulatory agency this week imposed a "temporary" ban on media coverage of the 19 July attack on the private...
Kyrgyzstan: government bans news websites ahead of election campaign
Kyrgyzstan's Central Elections Committee (CEC) has decided to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October...
News of the World hacked Sarah Payne’s mother’s phone
The Guardian has revealed that the News of the World hacked Sara Payne's phone, which Rebekah Brooks had given her as a gift. Payne had previously...
Brazil: controversial Serbian film banned from RioFan festival
The controversial 'A Serbian Film' has been banned from being screened at the RioFan film festival by the event's main sponsor, Brazilian national...
Hrant Dink’s murderer sentenced to 22 years
The Turkish-Armenian editor’s assassin has been imprisoned, but questions about wider plot remain. Kaya Genç reports