Egyptian blogger Tamer Mabrouk is facing a libel case, which begins tomorrow, for posting photographs on his website showing the alleged dumping of chemical waste in the Suez Canal and in a lake at Port Said. The action has been launched by a company called Trust Chemicals. Two human rights groups, the Mosawah Association, and the The World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum concluded last night with a spectacular gala dinner here in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was surely fitting that the main entertainer was a comic illusionist because, over the course of four days,... Comments (8) German tabloid 1, British tourists 0 - but please don't tell Rebekah Germany's tabloid Bild reacted with disbelief to the news that a British court compensated a British tourist who complained his hotel was dominated by Germans. Bild...
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