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A Brazilian court has ordered the seizure of goods and assets belonging to the broadcast-arm of the International Olympic Committee.

• 20 сентября 2016, 16:14

Kazakhstan arrested the influential head of the country's Union of Journalists and former presidential spokesman Seitkazy Matayev.

• 23 февраля 2016, 15:52

China adopted its first counter-terrorism law Sunday: its provisions may tighten media controls and threaten the intellectual property of foreign firms.

• 28 декабря 2015, 13:38

The Kremlin admitted that Russian television had accidentally shown secret plans detailing a nuclear torpedo system in development.

• 12 ноября 2015, 15:57

Google laid out a plan to make tapping into news on mobile devices faster, keeping eyeballs on stories and people visiting websites.

• 08 октября 2015, 14:41

Russian journalist Oleg Kashin released the names of three men charged with carrying out a savage beating that left him close to death in 2010.

• 08 сентября 2015, 12:27

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was working to amend a newly passed public broadcasting law, officials said, after an outcry over a provision prohibiting journalists from expressing opinions.

• 04 сентября 2015, 15:45

On the eve of the Constitution Day in Kazakhstan, President Nazarbayev commented on accusations of autocracy.

• 02 сентября 2015, 16:14

Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump booted a journalist from a leading Spanish-language channel out of a news conference.

• 26 августа 2015, 12:24

The EU sharply criticised Russia on Tuesday for the jailing of Ukrainian filmmaker and Kremlin critic Oleg Sentsov, calling it a violation of international law.

• 26 августа 2015, 11:10

Russia's media watchdog said it had lifted a short-lived ban on Russian-language Wikipedia over an entry on a form of cannabis.

• 25 августа 2015, 17:34

Chinese state-run media lambasted officials in the port city of Tianjin for a lack of transparency over the massive explosions at an industrial site.

• 17 августа 2015, 16:04

From a mullah who wants a military operation against women wearing jeans to "uncircumcised" Islamic State fighters, a satirical Pakistani website is using humour to shine a light on current affairs in the turbulent nation.

• 14 августа 2015, 13:57

The trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian resumed Monday in Tehran, in what could be the final hearing before a judgment is issued on whether he spied on Iran.

• 10 августа 2015, 15:29

German news weekly Der Spiegel charged that it was spied on by US secret services and said it had filed a criminal complaint with the country's chief prosecutor.

• 04 июля 2015, 10:34

France's Le Monde newspaper used 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat to issue a warning to Britain -- in English -- saying: "Beware, Brexit could be your Waterloo!"

• 19 июня 2015, 10:54

Rupert Murdoch presented a succession plan at media-entertainment conglomerate 21st Century Fox, passing his chief executive job to his son James.

• 12 июня 2015, 10:22

President of Kazakhstan speaks harsh words about the current state of culture, in which social networks and the Internet undermine moral principles and spirituality.

• 10 июня 2015, 19:59

A Russian freelance journalist who claims she went undercover as a pro-government Internet troll says she is suing her former employer in a bid to expose the workings of the Kremlin's online army.

• 03 июня 2015, 13:18

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women for the fifth straight year but Hillary Clinton is snapping at her heels.

• 27 мая 2015, 15:36