| Article Title |
Source |
The new front in the battle against al-Qaida
|
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ |
| Somalia is the worlds invisible conflict, and perhaps its least comprehensible. Since January last year, when Ethiopia pulled out of the country, the Islamist government of Sharif Ahmed has been locked in an attritional struggle with al-Shabab, a more radical offshoot of the Islamic Courts movement, the alliance of tribal sharia courts which once controlled most of southern Somalia. The government is also under attack from Hizb al-Islam, many of whom fought alongside Ahmed against the Ethiopia. |
|
US reporter Helen Thomas quits over Israel comments
|
http://news.bbc.co.uk |
| Veteran US White House reporter Helen Thomas has retired after making controversial remarks about Israel. In an interview on 27 May, she said that Israelis should get "the hell out of Palestine" and suggested they went to Germany, Poland or the US. |
|
Zambian journalist to appeal against jail sentence
|
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ |
| The editor of Zambias leading independent newspaper will tomorrow appeal against a sentence of four months hard labour for publishing a critical story about a trial involving one of his journalists.
Fred Mmembe, the editor and owner of the Post, was convicted of contempt of court last week for publishing a commentary piece while the trial was still in progress. After sentencing on Friday he was denied the chance to post bail. |
|
Mexicos Narco-Insurgency
|
http://www.time.com |
| The alleged cartel hitmen were paraded before the media like captured soldiers of an enemy state. Dressed in white vests, jeans and casual shirts, the eight men stared straight ahead, chins held high in defiant poses as the photographers snapped away. Their captured hardware was piled up in neat rows in front, reinforcing the image of a military unit: 20 automatic rifles, 10 pistols, 12 M4 grenade launchers, 30 grenades, and more than 40 bullet-proof jackets bearing the legend FEDA — Spanish acronym for Special Forces of Arturo Beltran, an alleged drug kingpin. The groups mission, law enforcement officials said, was to launch attacks on federal police and prosecutors. |
|
Terror in Honduras
|
Raul Garcia |
Its been a rough summer for the Murillo family. On July 5 -- one week after the military coup that ousted democratically-elected president Mel Zelaya -- nineteen- year-old Isis Obed Murillo was killed when soldiers opened fire on a peaceful protest march at Toncontin airport. Obeds father, Jose David Murillo, a well-known anti-deforestation crusader with the Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO), and head pastor of the New Life Church, had long taught his family the virtues of peaceful resistance to authoritarian power. Pastor Murillo, his son Isis, and three other siblings had come to the airport that morning to welcome home the deposed president, and to show their defiance of the military-backed government.
|
|
Blogging is for old people, Pew report finds
|
http://www.sfgate.com/ |
| Teenagers and young adults spent less time blogging during the past three years as social networks like Facebook became more popular, according to a Pew Research Center study released Wednesday. Still, one social network, Twitter, has failed to catch on with the vast majority of younger teenagers, according to the Pew study of social media and mobile Internet use among teens and young adults. |
|
Turkey jails Kurdish newspaper editor
|
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ |
| A Turkish court has sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for publishing material sympathetic to the outlawed PKK. The editor, Ozan Kilinc, allowed 12 editions of the paper to go out with references to the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party. |
|
Photo Diary by James Hill
|
http://www.iwpr.net/docs/hill_gallery_00.html |
| James studied history at Oxford University before going onto graduate studies in photojournalism at the London College of Printing. Shortly after graduation in 1991 he left for the Soviet Union. |
|
Haiti earthquake: anger turns to violence on the streets
|
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ |
| Anger turned to violence on the streets of Haiti as earthquake survivors lost their patience with the painfully slow process of getting international aid to those desperate for food, water and medical treatment. |
|
Social Media Director Journalisms Hottest Job
|
http://www.forbes.com |
| Amid the bankruptcies, layoffs and budget cuts in journalism, one beat has prevailed. Behold the rise of the social media director.
About 200 social media directors now exist at newspapers, book publishers, magazines and television news stations. Most have taken on their positions in the last two years. |
|
