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Ère cosmique, année 75 : les conflits font toujours rage. Mouvements indépendantistes, offensives du Blue Cosmos...
The EU is to better protect journalists from political interference under an unprecedented media freedom law adopted by the European Parliament. The legislation, backed in a vote by 464 EU lawmakers, with 92 against and 65 abstaining, also enshrines editorial independence and seeks to improve transparency on media ownership. IMAGES
"My body, my choice", "IVG Constitution", "My body, my choice"... These messages were projected onto the Eiffel Tower in Paris with a "special sparkle" as Parliament voted in Congress to enshrine abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
"We want to defend those civil liberties, we want to defend press freedom, and we want to see the freedom of Julian Assange. Free Julian Assange!" says Tim Dawson, the Deputy General Secretary of the Interantional Federation of Journalists (IFJ), addressing Assange supporters outside court on day two of the WikiLeaks founder's hearing. SOUNDBITE
The United States says that a Russian ban on US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty shows Moscow's efforts to deny open information. "It is quite clear that they do not want their people to have information about what the Russian regime does abroad, what the Russian regime does to its own people," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE