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Residents in Sidi Bouzid have expressed 'gratitude' to Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali for approving 'new presidential measures' covering all areas of development, including the employment and investment [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 12 November [Video report by Hasan al-Shawbaki] Several areas in Jordan have witnessed clashes and acts of [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 3 November [Shirin Abu-Aqilah video report.] British Foreign Secretary William Hague has stressed that it is important [...]

Text of report by state-owned, government controlled Moroccan news agency MAP Rabat, 29 October: [Moroccan] Ministry of Communication announced today Friday the suspension of the 'Al Jazeera' TV channel's activities [...]

Mixed messages over reform of foreign sponsorship laws has angered supporters and critics alike, writes Jamie Etheridge As media strategies go it was not the most consistent. Last month Mohammad [...]

The President of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH) Moustafa Bouchachi tells Al-Jazeera TV on 3 October that the Peace and National Reconciliation charter enables the [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded aljazeera.net website on 18 September; subheadings as published [Report by Muhammad al-Najjar in Amman: 'Nothing New in the Meeting of the Government and the [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded aljazeera.net website on 7 September [Unattributed report: 'Al-Sayyafah Instil Fear in Southern Iraq'] The residents of Dhi Qar Governorate, 300 km south of Baghdad, [...]

Tunisia has put on trial 137 people aged between 18 and 30 under the country's anti-terrorism law in the last three months, Al-Jazeera TV reports on 25 August quoting a [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 25 August [Wajd Waqfi video report] [Hasan Jammul] Human Rights Watch issued a report, highlighting the growth [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 11 August [Yasir Abu-Hilalah Video Report] The controversy continues in Jordan between the workers in the Jordanian [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 11 August The controversy continues in Jordan between the workers in the Jordanian news websites and the [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 13 July [Mustafa Izrid video report] French Members of Parliament are voting on a draft law that [...]

The National Assembly, the lower parliamentary chamber, in Mauritania passes a revised version of an anti-terror bill but opposition deputies say it is a threat to individual freedoms and vow [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV The National Assembly in Mauritania passed a law to liberalise the audio-visual media market amid criticism from the [...]

The National Assembly in Mauritania passed a law to liberalise the audio-visual media market amid criticism from the opposition, which regards it as yet 'another weapon to curb freedoms', Al-Jazeera [...]

Representatives of Tunisian human rights groups criticised from Paris a law passed by the Tunisian parliament that criminalises 'those who contact foreign organizations in order to harm Tunisia's vital interests, [...]

Human rights groups in Tunisia called on the government to repeal a law that criminalises 'those who contact foreign organizations in order to harm Tunisia's vital interests, including economic security', [...]

Algerian Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments Bouabdellah Ghlamallah warned his countrymen living abroad against the risk of being used by churches in the distribution of Christian missionary books in [...]

The International Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali not to sign a bill, which the Chamber of Deputies has recently adopted [...]

A Tunisian ministry official defends in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV on 17 June a newly ratified law that penalises any Tunisian who 'deliberately contacts with foreign sides instigating to [...]

The Tunisian Chamber of Deputies passed a law that will 'criminalise any Tunisian who undertakes contact with foreign parties to instigate against Tunisia's economic interests', Al-Jazeera TV reported on 16 [...]

Text of report by Qatari government-funded, pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 18 May [News anchor] In the second story in our programme we read the details of the [...]

The Tunisian government approved a draft law to penalise 'people who incite foreigners to take action that would harm the country's economic interests' in a move perceived to be a [...]

The Egyptian government is to relax the state of emergency, which restricts constitutional protections and grants police extensive powers, after 29 years of continuous implementation. The legal restrictions set out [...]

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports) The following is a selection of pan-Arab TV headlines from bulletins broadcast 0400, 0500, 0530 gmt on 12 Oct 06: AL-JAZEERA TV HEADLINES 0400 GMT: [...]

(From Guardian Unlimited) BSkyB, one of the UK's largest broadband providers, has said it will no longer cooperate with the requests of controversial solicitors' firm ACS:Law and that it will [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HUSSEIN DAKROUB Hezbollah acknowledged targeting civilians in rocket attacks on Israel, but said it fired in response to Israeli attacks _ rejecting an Amnesty International report [...]

The UK government's Advisory Group on Listed Events has recommended that satellite television be granted enhanced access to live sports events. These events would be divided into those which must be broadcast terrestrially and those which are only guaranteed highlights on terrestrial television. This development would have a particularly negative impact on the BBC, which may no longer be able to offer live coverage of some World Cup football home Test matches and all of Wimbledon fortnight, excluding the finals weekend.

The European Commission is clearly justified in being concerned about securing fair competition as digital satellite television begins to become established. However, some observers believe that the Commission's approach to planned alliances to provide digital satellite television services is not consistent and could prevent the audiovisual sector developing. Many observers believe that the Commission should now stop trying to prevent the consolidation of satellite broadcasting networks, focusing instead on promoting network openness.