France pulls plug on Arab network
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A French court upholds complaints of anti-Semitism against a Lebanese TV station and orders it off the air.
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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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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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France's Council of State, the country's highest administrative court, ordered the satellite company Eutelsat to stop broadcasts of Al-Manar television, the mouthpiece of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah.
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The BBC World Service, which began its shortwave transmissions 75 years ago, ended its English-language shortwave services in Europe on Monday.
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French PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin has called for a Lebanon-based satellite TV channel backed by Hezbollah to be taken off air for its "anti-Semitic" content.
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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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PARIS/LONDON  - France Telecom's FTE.PA Orange   unit has pulled out of the bidding for the UK Internet   connection business of Time Warner Inc.'s TWX.N AOL, an   industry source close to the matter said on Thursday.
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A French court decides on Friday whether a satellite Arabic channel should be banned in France.
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Trade unions at France's international  news channel France 24 have strongly criticized President  Nicolas Sarkozy for saying the broadcaster should ditch its  English and Arabic services and stick to French.
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"With taxpayers' money, I am not prepared to broadcast a channel that does not speak French"  President Sarkozy said a French channel can only speak French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said his country will stop broadcasting its English- language 24-hour news channel, France 24. via BBC
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PARIS - The television channel run by Lebanon&#39;s Hizbollah guerrillas and banned in France as anti-Semitic has agreed to stop its satellite broadcasts here immediately, France&#39;s broadcasting authority said on Tuesday.
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Just over four years into a 20-year agreement, France TÃ©lÃ©com SA is abandoning a U.S. dark-fiber network it rented from Level 3 Communications Inc. -- and replacing it with a network of lit fibers, also from Level 3, the companies announced Tuesday.
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A Lebanese television station accused of spreading anti-Semitic propaganda for the Muslim militant group Hezbollah will be taken off-air in Europe following a French ruling banning it, the Paris-based satellite ...
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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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Syria on Wednesday suspended  diplomatic cooperation with France aimed at ending the  political crisis in Lebanon -- a move that mirrored earlier  similar action by Paris.
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Germany's biggest television network, ARD, said on Friday it planned to pull out its two correspondents in Iraq after a foreign ministry warning that German journalists could be singled out for kidnappings.