The ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries. They turn out to be books that have a point of view different to the panel of conservatives who selected them. No surprises.

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Press Freedom Index

Reporters sans frontières (Reporters without Borders) latest press freedom index shows North Korea, Turkmenistan, and Eritrea as the worst violators of press freedom. They remain with Burma, Cuba and China at the bottom of the list.
France, the United States and Japan slip further into the repression of media criticism, while Mauritania and Haiti gain [...]






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