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Q&A: What the Most Seen Photographs Say
Interview with film director Errol Morris
BRUSSELS - No matter how familiar they become, the photographs depicting abuse at Abu Ghraib prison never seem to lose their ability to shock.
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IRAQ: Journalist Charges Censorship by U.S. Military in Fallujah
By Dahr Jamail
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. journalist Zoriah Miller says he was censored by the U.S. military in the Iraqi city of Fallujah after photographing Marines who died in a suicide bombing.
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MIDEAST: When You Shoot the Messenger
By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY - The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very good job of it.
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ISRAEL: Silicon Wadi Shows the Way
By Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - Alex Argov is now onto his fifth high-tech company. A serial entrepreneur, Argov's latest product is an Internet-based telephone that scrambles messages, making it almost impossible to eavesdrop on a conversation.
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POLITICS: Poll Backs Greater U.N. Role in Mideast Peace
By Khody Akhavi and Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - A majority of global publics say their governments should "not take either side" in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, instead supporting a call for the United Nations to play a greater role in regional peace, according to a new international poll of 18 countries released here Tuesday.
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MIDEAST: Israelis Assault Award Winning IPS Journalist
By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to return home to Gaza.
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MEDIA: Against Giant Odds, A Touch of Triumph
By Sanjay Suri
GLASGOW - Parents call it the strawberry coloured nightmare. In the suburbs of Cape Town in South Africa they call it 'tik'. Something that mimics the effect of adrenalin. The news feature on 'tik' explores its dangerous spread, interviewing parents and others who talk about the devastation this addiction is bringing to homes and lives. 'Tik' is coloured pink, we learn, to make it more attractive to teenagers.
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MEDIA: IPS Has New Chairman
By Sabina Zaccaro
ROME - The IPS International Association has chosen Federico Mayor as new chair of its Board of Directors. He replaces Mario Soares, former President of Portugal (1986-1996), who has been guiding the IPS Board since 2002.
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RIGHTS: Torture Widely Viewed as "Immoral"
By Mirela Xanthaki
UNITED NATIONS - A new poll on the official use of torture shows that people worldwide oppose it, but more than one-third also say an exception should be made if it can extract information from "terrorists" to "save innocent lives".
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DEVELOPMENT: Mobile Phones Soar in Internet-Starved Africa
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The beleaguered African continent continues to lag far behind the rest of the world in battling poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS, but it is making dramatic progress in the field of information and communications technologies (ICTs).
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RIGHTS: Poll Finds Scant Support for Criminalising Abortion
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - A new poll reveals that three-quarters of respondents in 18 geographically and culturally diverse countries reject the use of criminal penalties to discourage abortions.
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BRAZIL: Delivery Boy Newshounds Show Life in Sao Paulo
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Cleyton Perroni’s motorbike has been a part of his life since he was 12. But 19 years later, its role changed from recreation to an essential working tool as, equipped with a cell phone, he became a reporter of daily life in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.
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LEBANON: Newsrooms Fall Prey to Seven Deadly Sins
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Prejudiced reporting is not uncommon anywhere, but in Lebanon the level of news distortion has taken on a new dimension as a result of assassinations, physical threats, political pressure, biased reporting, lack of professionalism, rampant corruption and self-censorship. These are the seven deadly sins that have increasingly been plaguing the Lebanese media over the years.
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