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CARACAS, VENEZUELA
An opposition-aligned television channel said Saturday that it will appeal a fine of more than $2 million imposed by Venezuela's broadcast regulator.
Globovision said in a statement on its website that it will take "all legal actions" to challenge the penalty announced Tuesday by the National Telecommunications Commission. The agency accused the channel of violating broadcast regulations during its coverage of a bloody prison rebellion earlier this year.
The agency's chief, Pedro Maldonado, has said Globovision's violations included repeatedly airing emotional interviews with relatives of inmates during the violence. He said Globovision played such interviews about 300 times and added gunfire to the sound of some tracks.
The news channel, which has until Dec. 31 to pay, insists it has done nothing wrong and is being penalized for coverage that irritated President Hugo Chavez's government. It is the only channel in Venezuela that takes a staunchly anti-government stance.
International organizations such as Human Rights Watch have called the fine an abuse of power by the government.
TUNIS. TUNISIA
The people who started the Arab Spring shared one of its earliest fruits on Sunday: a free election. Tunisians who brought down a dictator nine months ago waited for hours to select those who will help shape their fledgling democracy.
Women with headscarves and without, former political prisoners and young people whose Facebook posts helped fuel the revolution also were among those electing a 217-seat assembly that will appoint a new government and then write a new constitution.
SOFIA. BULGARIA
It was the first truly free election in the history of Tunisia, which was under the control of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali for 23 years. Ben Ali was overthrown Jan. 14 by a monthlong uprising, sparked by a fruitseller who set himself on fire in protest of police harassment, then stirred by anger over unemployment, corruption and repression. The uprising inspired similar rebellions across the Arab world. The autocratic rulers of Egypt and Libya have fallen since, but Tunisia is the first country to hold free elections as a result of the upheaval. Egypt's parliamentary election is set for next month.
A makeshift bomb exploded under the car of a popular Bulgarian journalist who has been a fierce critic of the center-right government, damaging the vehicle but causing no injuries police said Friday.
The blast coincided with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso's visit to the country's capital, Sofia, and amid a heated campaign for next week's presidential and mayoral elections, but police said they had no suspects and had not determined a motive vet.
Sasho Dikov's car was blown up late Thursday night in front of his home in a Sofia residential area. Dikov, program director of the Channel 3 TV station, said he hadn't received threats before the blast.
"The blast is aimed at intimidating me, at intimidating everyone who speaks the truth." Dikov said in an interview with private BTV on Friday.
He declined to blame anyone or group in particular but said he would not stop talking about Prime Minister Boiko Borisov's government's alleged failure to cope with corruption and organized crime.
CANBERRA AUSTRALIA
The sudden death of an American diver in the jaws of a great white shark off Australia's southwest coast has raised the specter of a rogue man-eater preying on a renowned aquatic playground and killing three men in two months.
Scientists say three sharks more likely are responsible, and the three cases are sheerly unfortunate encounters with nature.
Australia's southwest corner has been better known for whale and dolphin-watching cruises, white sandy beaches, world-class surf breaks and the peppery shiraz of its Margaret River premium wineries than for fatal shark attacks.
"This is a unique set of circumstances, and I'm desperately ... praying this is not the beginning of a new trend ... and we're going to have these on a regular basis," Western Australia state Fisheries Minister Norman Moore said on Sunday, referring to the three recent deadly attacks.
The latest was Saturday when American George Wainwright was attacked while diving solo off a boat near Rottnest Island, a few miles from the city of Perth in Western Australia state.
INTERNATIONAL
Messy Iraq war may cause change in US military action
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BALL, Indonesia — In the final days of the U.S. war in Iraq, the outlook for America's military entanglements is markedly different from the confusing, convulsive first days.
Early on Iraq looked, to many, like one in a string of big conflicts in a "war on terror."
That was the view of John Abizaid when the now-retired Army general led U.S. forces in Iraq in 2003-04. At a U.S. base in northern
Iraq one day in early 2004, Abizaid told soldiers preparing to return home that he hoped they would remain in uniform and keep building combat experience.
Asked by an Associated Press reporter why he had made that pitch, Abizaid said, "I think the country is going to face more of these (ground wars) in the years ahead."
Now, with the last American troops set to depart by year's end, Iraq seems more likely to signal an
That was a widely accepted, and often dreaded, view at the time.
end to such long and enormously costly undertakings in the name of preventing another terrorist attack on U.S. soil — at least under the administration of President Barack Obama. He opposed the Iraq war and has declared that "the tides of war are receding."
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