BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Cairo, 10 September: Egypt's Higher Press Council (HPC) will review on Wednesday [12 September] two reports from the journalism practice and legal committee on rumours about President Husni Mubarak's health, HPC's secretariat office said on Monday during a …

BBC Monitoring  Less than 48 hours after the suicide attack which apparently targeted President Bouteflika during his visit to the eastern town of Batna, and in which 19 people were killed, a booby-trapped van was driven into the back entrance of the naval barracks in Dellys, some 80 km east …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Yemeni news agency Saba website Sana'a, 9 September: An official source has deplored remarks of the US Department of State that Yemeni security forces practised harassments against some Yemeni journalists. The source said that the deputy spokesman of US Department of State, …

BBC Monitoring Analysis by Steve Metcalf of BBC Monitoring on 7 September Whatever happens in Pakistan in the coming weeks and months, it will take place in a very changed media climate, particularly as regards television. Since General Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999 he has introduced measures that ended …

BBC Monitoring Text of press release by Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on 6 September Reporters Without Borders today condemned Hamas' decision on 3 September to dissolve the Gaza Strip branch of the Union of Palestinian Journalists, most of whose members are affiliated to Fatah or support it. At …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Jordan Times newspaper on 5 September [Unattributed report: "Former MP claims his website was hacked"] Amman (JT) -Former MP Ahmad Oweidi Abbadi on Tuesday told the State Security Court (SSC) that "hackers" had entered his website and used it. Abbadi, who pleaded …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Saudi news agency SPA website An authoritative source has denied the reports published by some Pakistani newspapers on Saturday 19 Sha'ban 1428 Hegira, corresponding to 1 September 2007, which contained allegations about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's satisfaction at and support for the return …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Muslim Brotherhood website Ikhwanonline on 4 September [Report by Ahmad Ramadan: "Editor-In-Chief of the newspaper al-Dustur to be interrogated over what his newspaper published about the health of President Mubarak."] The supreme State security prosecution has issued a subpoena summoning colleague Ibrahim Isa, editor-in-chief …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website on 4 September; subheadings as published An Iranian-American broadcaster banned from leaving Iran for the past seven months has been given permission to leave the country. Parnaz Azima collected her passport from authorities today and told Radio Farda she …

BBC Monitoring Text of BBC press release on 4 September The BBC has teamed up with Arabsat to distribute its new Arabic TV channel to the satellite provider's 164 million viewers in the Middle East, Southern Mediterranean and Europe via Arabsat Badr-4 at 26 degree East. Khalid Balkheyour, Arabsat President …