41.   Qatar on Tuesday said it had lifted direct censorship of the local press, although foreign publications would still come under watch.

42.   Several foreign publications have been affected by the law under a process called gazetting.

43.   Shaath said after the meeting that the Israeli general had also agreed to lift all restrictions on the import of foreign publications and books into Palestinian controlled regions.

44.   Singapore does not disguise its dislike for western-style freewheeling journalism and has won costly libel suits against foreign publications.

45.   The ban does not cover sales of foreign publications produced outside India.

46.   The Canadians are also accused of offering preferential mailing rates to certain Canadian magazines and not to foreign publications.

47.   The government, however, denied, any crackdown on foreign publications, saying the delays in releasing the magazines could be due to many reasons.

48.   The incident resulted in the newspaper being classfied as a foreign publication and open to prior censorship.