Arab TV stations to face curbs
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Arab ministers meeting in Cairo agree to allow "offensive" satellite TV channels to face punishment.
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A French court is to decide on Monday whether to ban television broadcasts to Europe by Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group, after the satellite station claimed Zionists were trying to export AIDS to Arab countries.
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President Pervez Musharraf is set to end emergency rule on Saturday but it was likely media would still face curbs with many judges and lawyers still under house arrest before Pakistan's election next month.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq The Iraqi government has pulled the plug on the pan-Arab TV channel al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera&#39;s Baghdad operations have been ordered closed indefinitely.
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Thailand's ruling generals are set to impose tough new curbs on the media, including a ban on expressions of public opinion, as they tightened their grip on power two days after a bloodless coup.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Saturday withdrew new curbs on media covering Pakistan's growing political crisis, backing down after a week of nationwide protests by journalists and opposition parties.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Under mounting domestic and international pressure, the Pakistani government yesterday suspended stringent media restrictions that critics said were designed to muzzle journalists .
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U.S. relations with Qatar are strained over the country's sponsorship of Al Jazeera, the provocative television station that is a big source of news in the Arab world.
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The France-based Eutelsat company has been ordered to stop broadcasting an Arabic television network because of anti-Semitic comments, the BBC said Tuesday.
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Text of report by Azerbaijani news agency Turan  Baku, 11 December: Today, the National TV and Radio Council [NTRC] met to look into the issue of the ANS TV channel. The decision made at the meeting will be publicized at a news conference at 1700 [1300 gmt].
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Turkey is planning a reform to allow  foreigners to own up to 50 percent of broadcasters instead of a  current 25 percent, according to a draft law prepared by media  watchdog RTUK and obtained by Reuters on Monday.
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Â· PM rules out censorship, but wants new controls Â· New look at pre-watershed TV advertising urged
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A three-month-old Iraqi satellite TV station is broadcasting graphic videos of U.S. soldier deaths along with anti-American speeches.  The Chicago Tribune says U.S. and Iraqi officials would like to shut down the station, Al-Zawraa TV, but have not been able to do so.
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Regulators ease restrictions stopping firms from owning both TV channels and newspapers in the US's largest cities.
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Radio broadcaster GCap is to cut two digital stations in order to focus on key outlets such as Capital.
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An opposition-aligned TV station forced off the air by President Hugo Chavez is considering taking its programming to cable, the channel's top executive said.
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A French court decides on Friday whether a satellite Arabic channel should be banned in France.