Ex-Taleban media leader defects
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The Taleban's former media head arrives in the Afghan capital and is likely to join the Western-backed government.
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The second most senior European Union official in Afghanistan and a top UN political advisor left the country after being expelled by the government for posing a threat to national security.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai escapes unhurt after the Taleban fire rockets at a meeting he was addressing.
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Belarus jailed on Friday for three years an editor of an independent newspaper who reproduced cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad which first appeared in Denmark in 2005 and caused mass demonstrations across the Muslim world.
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Two of Somalia's leading private media outlets, forced off the air two days ago by the country's transitional government, now appear to have lost their internet presence.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf withdraws new media restrictions after protests and foreign criticism.
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Mohammad Quchani has worked for 11 newspapers that were closed by the Iranian authorities and most never reopened. So he won't predict how long the daily which he launched last month as editor will survive.
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Pakistan's exiled leader makes a tightly choreographed announcement of her comeback. But a new political factor awaits her: an unleashed media
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The lead investigator probing the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been replaced, Russian media say.
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President Bush's point man for  international terrorism policy has quit several months after  botching a major report, the most well-known figure known to  have resigned since Bush's re-election.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf came under fire Wednesday for the expulsion of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, with newspapers dismissing the government's claim that he returned willingly to exile.
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Text of report by Tajik news agency Varorud website on 6 September  Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov has criticized the quality of programmes on the state TV channel.
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The chief editor of a Chinese newspaper resigned after it came to light that one of its photographers had faked a prize-winning photograph of endangered Tibetan antelopes appearing undaunted by a controversial railway.
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Afghanistan's attorney general has suspended militia leader Abdul Rashid Dostum from his government post for not cooperating with an investigation into a raid on a rival, an official said Tuesday.
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The governor of a troubled Afghanistan province spoke out last week about the governmentâs failure to control the Taliban. This week, heâs out of a job.
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Somaliaâs prime minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, resigned after a long feud with the president that frustrated Western backers and split the government.
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Shaharyar Khan resigns as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), according to a senior official.