News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 69
RIGHTS-EGYPT: Families Uprooted as Sphinxes Revive
- Inter Press Service
Hajj Khodari lifts a defiant fist at the demolition machinery now just meters away from his front door.
MALAYSIA: Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
- Inter Press Service
The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expression.
U.S.: Gov't Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking
- Inter Press Service
If you are a U.S. resident who owns a cell phone, you should care about the outcome of a court case that 'could well decide whether the government can use your cell phone to track you - even if it hasn't shown probable cause to believe it will turn up evidence of a crime.'
CULTURE-FRANCE: Alexandre Dumas Loses Colour in Film
- Inter Press Service
A new film about Alexandre Dumas, the author of ‘The Three Musketeers’, has sparked a racial row here because a white actor is playing the role of one of France’s most-read writers who was of mixed race.
PHILIPPINES: Presidential Campaign Thrives in Online World Too
- Inter Press Service
Festive days are here again in the Philippine political scene as 10 presidential candidates — ranging from the son of a former president to an environmentalist, a Christian minister and a former actor — battle it out for the voters’ ‘yes’ come May 10.
IRAQ: 'Disgraced Soldier' Fights Trauma With Documentary
- Inter Press Service
A new documentary ‘Diary of a Disgraced Soldier’ describes the dismissal from the British army of an Iraq war veteran and his battle with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) linked to his videographing the brutalising of Iraqi youth by fellow servicemen.
BRAZIL: Carnival, a Complex Annual Revolution for Women, Gays
- Inter Press Service
Fátima Oliveira, one of Brazil's few black women doctors, always goes to 'the best carnival,' in Sabará, a city of 130,000 people in the state of Minas Gerais, where 'men dress up as women' at a celebration that is 'very informal, very local, with few tourists.'
MEDIA-INDONESIA: When ‘Adding a Friend’ on Facebook Can Be Risky
- Inter Press Service
It is every parent’s worst nightmare in the Internet age — and for Syafei Asyhari, this happened when he found that his 16-year-old daughter, Latifa, fell into the clutches of traffickers she met online as friends.
EUROPE: Fight Female Mutilation Harder Activists Urge EU
- Inter Press Service
With hundreds of thousands of girls and women believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Europe, rights groups have mounted a campaign to get EU leaders to stop what they see as a barbaric and dangerous procedure.
NIGERIA: HIV-positive Youth Still Stigmatised
- Inter Press Service
'I will never have anything to do with women since I have been diagnosed to have a killer disease.' It is not clear how Muhammad Jungudo (17) contracted HIV, but he suspects it happened at a local barber shop where the implements used for shaving are rarely sterilised. And knowing how he contracted the virus is important. At least it was to Jungudo’s family.
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