Tunisian media mogul sits unapologetic atop his empire
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TUNIS: Sitting in the palatial family residence of his home in Tunis, the sun-soaked Mediterranean just mere meters away, Tarek Ben Ammar has plenty to be happy about.
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He's just back from a trip to Syria to drum up contracts for Austrian companies. In recent years, he ignored criticism from the West and met with Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein. Austria's Joerg Haider, increasingly sidelined in domestic politics since his far-right Freedom Party imploded, is looking further afield for an audience now.
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Henrico Frank went from being just another of Germany's 4 million unemployed people to a media celebrity overnight.Comment
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A member of the audience gives his take on the show and host.
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In so many ways, French politician and presidential aspirant Nicolas Sarkozy is a breath of fresh air in French and European politics.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is keeping his country's business elite waiting.
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BERLIN, Oct. 7 -- As part of its stealth effort to evade U.N. sanctions and rebuild its military, the Iraqi government under President Saddam Hussein found that it had no shortage of people around the world who were willing to help. Among them: a French arms dealer known only as "Mr. Claude," who made a surreptitious visit to Iraq four years ago to provide technical expertise and training.
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A worker cleans a hairdresser&#39;s shop window decorated with electoral posters of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in the Medina of Tunis, Oct. 23.
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He is being cast by some journalists as a young champion of the First Amendment, jailed for taking a lonely stand against heavy-handed federal prosecutors.
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Berlusconi influences about 90 percent of free TV channels. ROME, Italy  -- The director and anchor of the main news program at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset TV empire has been ...
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The Libyan contestant in a Pan-Arab version of the "Pop Idol" contest has generated a wave of adulation which has caused amazement in his home country, says Rana Jawad.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq&#39;s top Shiite Muslim cleric, rarely speaks in public but wields leverage in shaping the future of postwar Iraq.
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The lack of correctness and, occasionally, business civility that makes Rupert Murdoch a nonmember of the club of Eastern elites makes him something of a folk hero on the left coast.
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Ahmad Chalabi is an ambitious man who doesn't give up without a fight. The longtime Iraqi exile who always wanted to be prime minister was once also Washington's choice for the job, before it accused him of cozying up to Iran.
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Chicago Tribune - With his toothy grin and rags-to-riches tale, Hassan al-Mahdi could be a political natural anywhere.
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The likely winner of Sahara One's reality music show talks about himself and his experiences.
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With the media not invited to accompany the Prime Minister, we probably wont know whether there will be any camels staring at Lawrence Gonzi outside the Colonels tent pitched somewhere in Tripoli, or whether ...