Dimi Reider speaks to Walid Omary, Jerusalem bureau chief for al Jazeera, about the Palestinian Authority’s decision to shut down the station’s Ramallah bureau
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Respect MP George Galloway has breached Ofcom’s impartiality rules after calling for listeners to attend anti-Israel protests on his radio show. Read more here
Fiery television debates, and the tactics of Ahmadinejad’s own supporters, have emboldened Iran’s newspapers, says Meir Javedanfar
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Farouk Hosny Egypt’s culture minister, and candidate to lead Unesco, the UN’s cultural arm, has expressed “solemn regret” over a May 2008 pledge to burn Israeli books in Egyptian libraries. Read more here