BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Syrian News Agency SANA website ["Sit-in in front of UN headquarters in Damascus" - SANA headline] Damascus, 19 Aug ( SANA ) - A sit in was staged yesterday evening before headquarters of the UN mission in Damascus in protest against the …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Paris-based Sudanese newspaper Sudan Tribune website on 18 August The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has approved eight FM Radio stations to private investors in southern Sudan to assist in information dissemination, educative and entreating programmes service to the public, the acting …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by London-based newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi website on 18 August [Editorial: "A Saudi-Syrian Media War"] Saudi-Syrian relations entered an unprecedented stage of tension when the Saudi Government replied through an authoritative official source to the reproachful criticisms levelled against it by Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Shar'a, …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by provincial state-owned Afghan Herat TV on 16 August Providing information, broadcasting the public's views and thoughts and revealing the facts about current issues should serve national development, enlighten and improve people's awareness. This legal principle approved by the Constitution and the media law guarantees …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Egyptian news agency MENA [LE 45 million to establish new Radio, TV transmission stations-MENA headline] Cairo 15 Aug: The Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) started preparations for a giant project to set up new transmission stations with adding more radio stations to FM …

BBC Monitoring Excerpt from report by Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran West Azarbayjan Provincial TV on 15 August [Presenter] The eighth nationwide conference of heads of TV and Radio Organization started in Orumiyeh today. Our reporter has more: [Correspondent] The deputy head of the Iranian Majlis affairs department …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by London-based newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat website on 16 August [Report by Khalid Mahmud in Cairo: "Al-Qadhafi's Son Launches New Satellite Channel"] Engineer Sayf-al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Colonel Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi, launched last night the test transmission of a new Libyan satellite channel called "Al-Libiyah", …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by French news agency AFP Rabat, 16 August: Foreign observers monitoring elections in Morocco next month expressed unease on Thursday [16 August] at court cases involving journalists, which they described as impinging press freedom. "There have been notable challenges to press freedoms in advance of …

May, 2007. Politics has become so divisive in Lebanon, on the streets and on TV screens, that the national media council chief urged the media in January to curb "tense rhetoric" that could instigate violence among the country's religious sects.[1] Lebanon was plunged into a power struggle on December 1, …

Politics have become so divisive in Lebanon that the national media council chief urged the media in January to curb "tense rhetoric" that could instigate violence among the country's religious sects, writes Contributing Editor Paul Cochrane. So what are the media up to? Are they guilty of fanning the flames?