Arab channels scrap soap on Taliban after Islamist threat
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DOHA: State television channels of Qatar and Jordan announced on Saturday that they would not broadcast a series on a love story set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan for âtechnical reasonsâ, a day after Islamists issued threats against the Jordanian
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Afghanistan&#39;s election crisis seemed to be over yesterday when the main opposition challenger, Yunus Qanooni, withdrew his threat to boycott the result.
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Text of report by Somali independent Shabeelle Media Network website on 20 February  Shabelle Media Network is deeply shocked and dismayed at the restrictions and threats directed at the freedom of local media by the transitional federal government of Somalia.
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Despite a weeklong advertising blitz, Jordan canceled plans Saturday to broadcast a soap opera about Afghanistan after an Internet threat against everyone from actors to TV executives if the show portrayed the Taliban in a negative light.
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BEIRUT -- Al-Manar, the television station of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants that has glorified suicide bombers, lost its satellite feed to the United States yesterday after Washington put it on a list of terror organizations. The exclusion from US television screens occurred less than a week after France banned its broadcasts. The station, which ranks fourth or fifth among Lebanon's nine ...
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Venezuela shut down an opposition television channel on Monday and replaced it with one promoting President Hugo Chavez's self-proclaimed socialist revolution in a move widely criticized as a threat to democracy.
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PARIS, December 15: A French court has ordered Eutelsat to cease broadcasting al-Manar, a satellite television station owned by the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah, citing the channel&#39;s anti-Semitic slant.
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ABC News aired a much-anticipated videotape of a man describing himself as an American member of al-Qaida. ABC got the tape Oct. 22 from a source reporters knew had Taliban and al-Qaida ties in the tribal region of Pakistan.
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Somali Islamists on Monday dismissed as fake two letters purportedly signed by their most influential leader and which led to a U.S. warning of possible suicide attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - A collection of pre-Islamic  wooden idols chopped up by the Taliban in 2001 in their drive  for a pure Muslim state is back on display in Afghanistan after  painstaking repair in a project financed by the Austrian  government.
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Palestinian TV has toned down its martial posture, opting for gentler programming in line with rising hopes for Middle Eastern peace.
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Â· Army paralysed by Taliban threat, says ex-CIA agentÂ· Retired officers accused of helping militants
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A French court ordered a prompt end to satellite television broadcasts to Europe by Lebanon&#39;s Hizbollah guerrilla group on Monday on grounds they were clearly anti-Semitic and a potential threat to public order.
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After a week-long advertising blitz, Jordan has abruptly cancelled plans to broadcast a soap opera about Afghanistan after an internet threat to &quot;strike&quot; everyone from actors to TV executives if the show portrayed the Taliban in a negative light.
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Text of report by Indian newspaper The Telegraph on 5 March  [Unattributed report: "Militant Axe on 'Obscene' Channels"]  Srinagar, March 4 - Cable operators in the Valley have switched off some entertainment channels after militant groups Al Madina and Al Badr issued a diktat.
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Al-Manar, the television station of Hizbullah terrorists, lost its satellite feed to the United States on Saturday, but it is working to overturn a new US State Department decision adding it to a list of terror organizations.
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Somalia's Islamists reject accusations that they were behind the suicide attack on the government.