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 …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Lebanese National News Agency website ["Hezbollah denounces offensive cartoons of Prophet Muhammad published in Swedish newspaper" - NNA headline] Beirut, 3 Sep (NNA) - The Public Relations Office of Hezbollah has issued a statement in which it said that "the offensive cartoons of the …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Cairo, 3 September: The Higher Council of Journalism bureau Monday [3 September] entrusted the council's committee on preparing reports on the conduct of the press with drafting a technical and specialised report on the latest rumours on the …

BBC Monitoring Text of press release in English by Amman-based Arab Advisors Group on 2 September Despite the drop in Arab satellite TV advertising rates between 2004 and 2005, the average rates appear to have been steady between 2005 and 2007. The average advertising rate for a free-to-air [FTA] satellite …

BBC Monitoring Text of press release from the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Network on 1 September Doha, Qatar, 1 September 2007: Al-Jazeera Network announced today that its Training and Development Centre will launch a training partnership with the Syrian International Academy. A senior Al-Jazeera delegation headed by the director-general of the Al-Jazeera …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by London-based newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat website on 1 September [Report by Muhammad al-Shafi'i in London: "Fundamentalists' Lawyer Replies to Extreme Right Wing's Accusations: I Am Not Talebani or 'Terrorists' Lover'. Mudassar Arani Faces Questioning Following Allegation of Bribing One of the Defendants in Failed London …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by independent Afghan newspaper Arman-e Melli on 1 September The High Council of the Supreme Court summoned the chief editor of the daily Arman-e Melli [Mir Haidar Motahar] on Thursday [30 August] to explain the editorial published on Monday [27 August]. The editorial had commented …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Cairo, 1 September: The Ministry of Awqaf denounced Saturday [1 September] the publication of a blasphemous caricature insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Such irresponsible acts would not serve relations between the Islamic world and the West, the ministry said …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Jordanian newspaper Al-Ra'y on 26 August [Report by Khalaf al-Tahat in Amman: "Failure of a popular rally organized by the Islamic Action Front Party"] The [Islamic] Action Front [IAF] Party failed to ensure the success of what it called a popular rally that it …

BBC Monitoring Text of press release by Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on 24 August Reporters Without Borders is worried about the state of health of journalists Adnan Hassanpour and Abdolvahed "Hiva" Botimar, who are under sentence of death and who began their 42nd day on hunger strike today. …