NRKs Philip Lote holdt et tankevekkende innslag om Rahila Iqbal-saken på radio idag. Den har tydeligvis gjort inntrykk. Det er sjelden å høre NRK-reportere som gjennomgår en erkjennelsesprosess for åpen mikrofon. For Rahila-saken har tydeligvis fått Lote til å tenke nye tanker. Først og fremt om forskjellen på Rahilas familie-klan, og det norske samfunn. Iqbal-familien […]
Les mer»Kosovo: Kosovo journalist Bardhyl Ajeti died Saturday in an Italian hospital from wounds sustained during an early June assassination attempt in eastern Kosovo, Pristina media reported. Bardil Ajeti of the pro-government newspaper Bota Sot was shot in the head at close range on June 3 near the eastern town of Gnjilane. Police arrested one of […]
Les mer»Innslagene om Hanna Kvanmos bortgang hadde religiøse trekk. Aldri høres venstrevrien NRK tydeligere enn ved slike anledninger. Det finnes knapt distanse mellom programleder og Stein Ørnøi, og den andre gjesten i Dagsnytt Atten, NRKs egen Ingolf Håkon Teigene, som har skrevet biograf om Kvanmo. En ting er at man i Norge ikke snakker stygt om […]
Les mer»Washingto: The Pentagon has created a vast database of millions of Americans as young as age 16, full of personal data such as grades and Social Security numbers, to help find potential military recruits, officials said on Thursday, in a program condemned by privacy advocates. The database contains information on U.S. high school students ages […]
Les mer»BRUSSELS – European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso sowed fresh doubts on Wednesday about Turkey’s prospects of joining the EU, saying the bloc needed a serious debate about its future ties with Ankara. Barroso said the European Union should discuss the signal that French and Dutch voters had sent about Turkey’s accession when they rejected […]
Les mer»WASHINGTON – Iran has among the strictest Internet censorship in the world, blocking access to sexual content, political websites, information on women’s rights and «blogs,» a study by Internet researchers showed Tuesday.(afp)
Les mer»Det skjer mye i Midtøsten, regionen hvor alt var frosset langs klare frontlinjer i lang tid. Hariri jr. og den pro-nasjonale fronten har vunnet flertall i parlamentsvalget i Libanon, til tross for at Michel Aoun brøt ut og dannet allianser med pro-syriske grupper. Condi er på rundreise, og sjokkerte nok egypterne. Mener de virkelig det […]
Les mer»«Please remember, absolutely no ranting and raving about Bush or Blair and the Iraq war. We want to bring Bush in, not run him away.» Bob Geldof
Les mer»PARIS: A female French journalist is being expelled from Iraq, but the decision has yet to be formally announced by authorities here, the media rights group Reporters without Borders reported Tuesday. Anne-Sophie Le Mauff contacted the group, known by its French acronym RSF, to inform them of the measure, adding: «Iraqi interior ministry officials explained […]
Les mer»Buenos Aires: Guillermo Suarez Mason, a former general in Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship who reportedly boasted ordering at least 50 killings a day, died Tuesday at age 81, media reports said. Suarez Mason had been in prison awaiting trial for the alleged stealing of babies from parents who were killed or disappeared during the military’s […]
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