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Pakistan: three killed in press club bombing

Three people have been killed and several others injured after a suicide bomber attacked a club for journalists in Pakistan's northwestern city of...

A criminal case has been filed against the photographer and documentary film maker Umida Akhmedova in Uzbekistan for "slander" and "insult"....

A Kyrgyz opposition journalist, Gennady Pavlyuk has died in Kazakhstan today, nearly a week after he was thrown out of sixth-floor window with his...

Cihan Hayirsevener, the editor of a local newspaper in the northwestern Turkish city of Bandirma has been shot dead. The shooting follows threats...

Burma's highest court has provisionally agreed to review the most recent extension of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. Suu Kyi's...

The Australian internet company, auDA that runs the .com.au domain registry has been accused of censoring a website satirising Australian...

Trevor Phillips, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said the BBC may be sanctioned if comments made by the public on its...

Iranian authorities have acknowledged that at least three protesters who were jailed after the countries disputed presidential elections in June,...

Danish radiologist, Henrik Thomsen has said from now on he will not publish his research findings in the UK as he fears he will be sued for libel....

Canberra is making alarming advances in web censorship, says John Ozimek