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  We're not all bombers, joke Pakistan comedians

  Thu Nov 19 04:59PM

  Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf is much smaller than I imagined, while prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is painfully shy, shuffling his shoes and giggling slightly as he hands over a business card for a property firm he has on the side in Karachi. President Asif Ali Zardari puffs… More »

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  Relief as Zambian editor is cleared of porn charges

  Thu Nov 19 12:36PM

  Normally impartial journalists smiled and hugged each other Monday when a Zambian court acquitted Chansa Kabwela, news editor at the private Post newspaper, of pornography charges. The ecstatic mood after the verdict was more like our weekly Friday gatherings where journalists are imbibing in cold and intoxicating liquids.She had faced… More »

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  Is the Brown bashing going overboard?

  Sat Nov 14 12:55PM

  It has been another woeful week for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The row over his botched condolence letter to Jacqui Janes, the mother of a 20-year-old British soldier killed in Afghanistan, has been dominating the headlines. Ms Janes says Brown's letter contained 25 spelling mistakes -- including the family's… More »

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  Brazil's nightlife -- during the blackout

  Wed Nov 11 04:59PM

  The lights went out halfway through a lovely classical concert by a French sister duo playing piano and violin.It was the intermission in the evening show and I was waiting for my Guarana, a Brazilian softdrink, with all the anticipation of someone who hadn't had time to eat or drink… More »

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  Climate talks: Homage to Catatonia

  Fri Nov 06 04:15PM

  You live in a huge castle, a ramshackle building that is stuffed with rooms, many of them rather poor and shabby and a few that are luxurious. A couple of decades ago, you and the many other occupants of the chateau were given a warning. By your own ignorance or… More »

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  Kabul revisited

  Fri Nov 06 10:13AM

  "If the Taliban came back? Well I wouldn't be able to go out, wear Western clothes, smoke or take photographs. We might as well kill ourselves!" Returning to Kabul after a seven-year gap, it was hard to believe that the Islamists sent packing by US-led forces and Afghanistan's motley Northern… More »

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• Does publishing a photo increase the risk of suicide?

  Tue Nov 03 02:40PM

  More than 70 complaints have been filed to the Press Complaints Commission after a newspaper in Northern Ireland this weekend published a picture of a man who took his own life by hanging.Under the headline 'Halloween Horror' the newspaper Sunday World published a photo of the body of the man… More »

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  Following a very peculiar coup in Honduras

  Thu Oct 29 01:38PM

  Journalists who slept on concrete floors inside the Brazilian embassy, joining deposed president Manuel Zelaya, put up with attacks by music, high-pitched sounds or cell phone threats. They did not know how long their detention would last. Outside, we moved between the Honduran capital's Clarion Hotel, to interview visiting diplomats,… More »

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  Karadzic trial: media coverage that cements the divide

  Tue Oct 27 02:07PM

  The man who failed to show up at his trial on war crimes charges in The Hague yesterday, has always been a shrewd manipulator of the press. I interviewed Radovan Karadzic properly only once, in London in 1992, when he was here to attend a 'peace conference' while his troops… More »

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