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China takes centre stage in global internet debate

Beijing defends "internet sovereignty"

Economy

Russia 'warns Twitter it must store user data locally'

Russia has reportedly warned Twitter that it must store Russian users’ data in Russia. A new law that came into effect in September requires internet

My Europe Series

Are refugees or civil rights the priority in Turkey?

Turkey’s snap elections come at a critical moment. President Erdogan aims to avoid the hung parliament from the June vote, but polls show no clear

Turkey

Istanbul: hundreds protest police raid on opposition media

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Istanbul in front of an opposition media company that was raided by police earlier on Wednesday.

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Turkey

Turkish police storm opposition Bugun TV during live broadcast

Police in the Turkish city of Istanbul stormed the offices of opposition television station Bugun TV during a live broadcast on Wednesday (October

Turkey

Outrage in Turkey at take over of media outlets

Hundreds of Turkish government critics and opposition leaders have vowed to keep up a protest outside a Koza Ipek outlet namely Bugun TV in Istanbul

Turkey

Turkey's ruling AK party moves to seize critical media holding ahead of election

Turkey’s Public Prosecutors office is to appoint a trustee to manage Koza Ipek Holding which owns media outlets critical of the ruling AK party. The

Turkey

Turkish police raid media group over 'terrorist financing'

Burundi

Burundi: radio silence leaves room for political violence

The country's main independent radio stations have been closed since April when unrest began. By day there is an uneasy calm, by night gunfire rings out in Bujumbura.

Germany

Germany suspends treason investigation into news website

Germany has suspended a treason investigation into the Netzpolitik news website while an expert decides whether articles it published earlier this

Angola

Angolan generals drop charges against journalist Rafael Marques

Defamation charges have been dropped against a journalist who accused seven Angolan army generals of being complicit in human rights abuses. The

France

Charlie Hebdo, for richer, for poorer?

The coming departure of Charlie Hebdo’s surviving cartoonist Renald Luzier casts a further shadow over the satirical magazine, adding to doubts about

USA

Charlie Hebdo honoured in New York

The French magazine Charlie Hebdo has been honoured with a freedom of expression award at a New York gala. The PEN (Poets, Essayists and Novelists)

Bangladesh

Bangladeshi blogger is hacked to death for speaking out against religious fundamentalism

For the second time in a month an internet blogger has been hacked to death by assailants using machetes in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. The family

My Europe Series

Drawing the line: the high price paid by Prophet Mohammed cartoonists

A life in hiding is the price two cartoonists have paid for their satirical depictions of the Prophet Mohammed. Swede Lars Vilks and Kurt Westergaard

Culture news

16th edition of Cartoon Xira pays homage to Charlie Hebdo victims

The 16th edition of the Cartoon Xira, dedicated to some of Portugual’s best cartoonists, has opened in Vila Franca de Xira near Lisbon. The

Denmark

Swedish artist Lars Vilks receives free speech award

Swedish artist Lars Vilks has reappeared in public for the first time since narrowly avoiding death in the Copenhagen killings last month. He was

Egypt

Alaa Abdel Fattah sentenced by Egypt court

Prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been sentenced to five years in jail by an Egyptian court for breaking protest laws, branded repressive by

France

Dieudonné: freedom of expression is no joke in France

French comic Dieudonne is expected in court on Wednesday to answer to charges of ‘apology for terrorism’ after appearing to praise the suspect who

Egypt

Another Al-Jazeera journalist set to be freed from Egyptian jail

The Canadian foreign minister says the release of Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy from jail in Egypt is “imminent”. The Al Jazeera