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AL JAZEERA News, Feb 08, 2012

Central & South Asia Thousands of Maldivians condemn 'coup'
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Steve Chao, reporting from the capital island of Male on Wednesday, said up to 3000 people took part in the protests in support of Nasheed and calling for his return to power. He said police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters as ...
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The Global Note: Desperation In Homs…A380 Safety Checks…The Lost Lake ...
ABC News (blog)
Al Jazeera interviewed a number of activists on the ground who described the isolation and horror of Homs today. Danny Abdul Dayem, a Syrian activist has recorded another video appeal from the Baba Amr district of Homs. Speaking beside the body of a ...
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Greek PM seeks consensus on bailout plan
Aljazeera.com
John Psaropoulos, reporting for Al Jazeera from the site of protests in Athens, said that the two umbrella unions representing 2.5 million workers were calling their workers off their jobs. "The strike is going to be the beginning of the a number of ...
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The Two-Way : NPR
NPR
One of the big issues that the Al Jazeera story bats around is that most of the money spent on the embassy isn't on diplomats, but on security for them. The Times story today as well as the Al Jazeera story from December mention a program run by the ...
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Middle East 'Besieged' Homs endures tank assault
Aljazeera.com
Activists said the army was firing rockets and mortar rounds to subdue opposition districts on Wednesday, as tanks entered the Inshaat neighbourhood and moved closer to Bab Amr. An activist in Bab Amr told Al Jazeera that the neighbourhood had been ...
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Aljazeera.com
One in 10 may try to cheat at London games
Al Jazeera
As many as one in ten athletes may be using performance-enhancing drugs when the London Olympics kick off this summer. Al Jazeera's Lee Wellings reports from Lausanne.
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Russia's Putin: No 'bull in china shop' for Syria
Los Angeles Times
REPORTING FROM BEIRUT -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ventured Wednesday into the raging international debate about Syria, voicing support for Moscow's controversial decision to throw a diplomatic lifeline to embattled Syrian President Bashar ...
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Gingrich's billionaire backer
Al Jazeera
Sheldon Adelson, a casino magnate with a net worth of $21bn and theworld's sixteenth richest man has thrown chunks of his vast fortune in US Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's way. Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports from Washington.
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Syria disrupts news broadcasts from Al Jazeera
Rapid tv news
Viewers affected by the jamming can find alternative frequencies at http://sat.aljazeera.net, he added. "Geo-localization reports indicate that recent jamming of Al Jazeera satellite signals emanates from Syria," confirmed Paris-based Eutelsat, ...
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Polar shifts: Immigration flows back into the Global South
Aljazeera.com
The rubber boom at the turn of the 20thcentury, which supplied the world with rubber and helped spur the industrial revolution, brought global magnates, a Parisian opera house, and some of the world first street lights to Manaus. Today ...
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Aljazeera.com
Syria Violence 'Intolerable' as Turkey Calls for Coalition
BusinessWeek
Syria's army shelled residential districts in the city of Homs, killing 43 people, Al Jazeera reported today, citing unidentified Syrian activists. Five Syrian soldiers were killed and two armored vehicles were destroyed in fighting in Idlib in the ...
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Mosaic News - 02/06/12: Bahraini Dies From Tear Gas Inhalation
linktv
Today's headlines in full: Al-Iraqiya bloc ends boycott of the parliament Al-Alam, Iran New IAF chief says Iran is top concern IBA, Israel Are Israel and the US on the same page with Iran issue? IBA, Israel Palestinian rivals agree to form Abbas-led ...
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Santorum gains momentum in US Republican race
Al Jazeera
... Santorum has made a comeback - winning the states of Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado. He and three others are vying for the Republican nomination to run against Barack Obama in November's election. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Los Angeles.
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US foreclosures go sky high
Al Jazeera
... it was auctioned off for about half the amount it was worth five years ago. Once the symbol of the area's booming commerical real estate market, it now represents its widespread failure. But this is Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane reports from Washington.
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Deadly freeze continues in Europe
Al Jazeera
... with many remote areas still inaccessible. More power, water and food shortages are expected as demand increases, while heavy snowfalls are also spreading to northern Africa, with Libya and Algeria already affected. Al Jazeera's Emma Hayward reports.
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Media curtain blinds Americans from imperial war against Middle East
Daily Sundial
However, she expects news media to follow a strict ethical integrity, especially when reporting in a time of crisis, but feels that media have done a poor job in giving Syrians and the world the truth. “You're not supposed to be biased,” Al-Sayed said.
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International Media Shut Out of Bahrain as Anniversary Approaches
Human Rights First
Washington, DC – Today, a number of prominent journalists havereported on Twitter that they have been denied access to Bahrain in the run-up to the anniversary of the pro-democracy protests on February 14. Nick Kristof and Adam Ellick of the New York ...
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US school sacks staff over sex abuse inquiry
Al Jazeera
The staff, from the principal to cafeteria workers, will be replaced in a move that police officers say is necessary for them to conduct a complete investigation. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Los Angeles.
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Daredevil readies for supersonic space jump
Al Jazeera
... records - the longest, highest and fastest freefalls as well as the highest balloon flight. But such daring comes with great risks - any breach in his pressurised suit would make his tissues swell and his blood boil. Al Jazeera's Sonia Gallego reports.
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Facebook comment lands atheist in jail
Al Jazeera
Although the country is officially secular, every Indonesian has to have a religion and register himself according to one of the official five religions. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Dharmasraya in West Sumatra.
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Watch: China's CCTV Now Broadcasting in North America
Wall Street Journal (blog)
CCTV has pointed to Al-Jazeera as a model for a state-funded media company that has managed to attain international influence, but as a recent Associated Press report points out, some are skeptical that China will find the same success: …while ...
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Mexico's angels hit back at gang violence
Al Jazeera
As part of his new initiative, a former gang member and others from his evangelical church group dress up as angels and head to crime scenes with their messages of hope. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin reports from Ciudad Juarez.
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Iraqi domestic violence 'on the rise'
Al Jazeera
... Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein nearly nine years ago. But even for women who do manage to escape their abuse, there are few places in the country they can go to seek refugee. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf has this exclusivereport from the capital, Baghdad.
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Revealed: All the president's media tricks
The Independent
Ms Jaafari summarised with some candour US media reports of the regime's use of tanks and aeroplanes against the uprising in her memo to Luna Chebel, a former Al Jazeera journalist who now works in the Assad office: "They use the phrases 'The Syrian ...
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Arab media must stand up for truth
gulfnews.com
By Khaled Al Maeena, Special to Gulf News Abdul Hamid Ahmad (centre), Editor-in-Chief of Gulf News, flanked by Mohammad Jameel Abdul Qader (left), President of the Arab Sports Media Federation, and Ali Obaid, panel moderator, at the Dubai International ...
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gulfnews.com
Journalist-Activist Reportedly Killed in Homs, Syria
International Press Institute (press release)
Tayyara, 23 or 24 years old according to different reports, provided video footage and information to AFP, the Guardian, Die Welt and had appeared on CNN and Al-Jazeera television news networks, AFP reported. He was reportedly known by the nicknames ...
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Cold shoulder for city over hum
Windsor Star
The mystery hum this week has also gained international interest - a crew from Al-Jazeera television news network, arrived to report on the rumblings which have rattled hundreds of area residents over the last year. "If you Google Windsor at the moment ...
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India Completes First Polio-Free Year
The Mark
Education programs geared toward dispelling fears about vaccination could be the key to ridding the developing world of the disease. Amid all the doom and gloom of 2011, occasional moments of human triumph shone through, such as the news that there ...
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Russia: Assad committed to ending violence
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, reporting from Moscow, said that though expectations of any impact of the visit on the Assad government were low, Lavrov may be looking to engage with the Syrian opposition as well as the nation's leadership.
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Egyptian Judge Says Foreign Groups Have Been Working There Illegally
NPR (blog)
Al-Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, who has been tweeting from the news conference, reports that Judge Sameh Abu Zeid also "says these organizations repeatedly applied for licenses, were turned down, ignored that & worked anyway." The groups, however, have said ...
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Last First World War Veteran Dies
The Mark
Wal-Mart announced a $750-million expansion in Canada today that the chain says will create 14000 new jobs across the country. The massive infusion of more mediocre-quality goods and abhorrent labour practices is clearly, umm, aimed at the arrival of ...
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PETA Lawsuit Names Five Orcas as Plaintiffs
The Mark
Florence Green, the last surviving veteran of the First World War, has died at the age of 110. Green enlisted with the UK's Women's Royal Air Force, or WRAF, in September 1918, just months before Germany signed an armistice with the allies.
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Clear measures sought to stop bloodbath
gulfnews.com
However, he refused to divulge the options, telling Al Jazeerachannel on Monday evening he would discuss them with fellow Arabs first. Shaikh Hamad said there were special reasons for delaying meetings of the Arab foreign ministers on the Syrian issue ...
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gulfnews.com
Greece to cut civil service jobs, despite protests
Catholic Online
This is in addition to 200000 public service employees who have left through [negotiated] dismissal, early retirement and firing," Al Jazeera'sJohn Psaropoulos reported. Greece is struggling to push through drastic, but much needed reforms and clinch ...
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Syria: Homs; TV, minarets ask for help
ANSAmed
Pan-Arab TV Al Jazeera is broadcasting the shelling in real time. Al Jazeera's cameras are connected to some activists' videocameras placed on top of buildings and broadcasting thanks to satellite modems. They are the only way to communicate, ...
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Violent Attacks Against Russian Activists Focus of Al Jazeera's The Stream
Human Rights First
By Fighting Discrimination Program Yesterday, Al Jazeera'sinnovative and social-media friendly television daily The Stream delved into the subject of Russian protests. The show's principal guest was Oleg Vorotnikov of the art collective Voina,...
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Human Rights First
Will the London conference change Somalia's future?
Aljazeera.com
Thus, so far, more than a dozen conferences on Somalia have produced unsustainable, incompetent and costly transitional dispensations that had ill-served the Somali people or those members of the international community in solidarity with it.
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Aljazeera.com
Riots and phone hacking coverage shortlisted for RTS awards
Journalism.co.uk (blog)
Al Jazeera English, the BBC News Channel and Sky News will do battle for the title of news channel of the year at this year's RTS journalism awards later this month. BBC News at Ten, Newsnight and Channel 4 News are shortlisted for news programme of ...
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Journalism.co.uk (blog)
Democracy needs reform: Human rights, housing policy – Australia and China ...
Sydney Indymedia
A recent report in the UK, A Silent Killer by Sheffield University commissioned by a charity organisation, Crisis (21 Dec 2011) reveals that: “Deaths as a result of traffic accidents are three times as likely, infections twice as likely and falls over ...
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Univision, ABC teaming for English-language news channel for Hispanics
Rapid tv news
International entrants are there as well, including ZEE News, BBC Worldand, in New York, Al Jazeera English. But all of these lack one significant aspect: a focus on Hispanic issues and events. That could very well be the ace in the hole that ABC and ...
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WikiLeaks founder to host Kremlin-funded show - Europe ... - Aljazeera
Al Jazeera's Listening Post asks: Is Russia Today a news channel or ...RT are the reports that refer to the channel as "Kremlin TV" or "Kremlin-funded". ... be displaced from towns in the Amazon to make way for theworld's third biggest dam.
www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/.../201212613244783900.ht...
Al Jazeera reports on torture inside Homs | World News – Breaking ...
World News News around the World · Home · Al Jazeera · Australia Ten · Euro News · Russia Today · TV New Zealand. Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Posted in ...
www.worldnews.fm/.../al-jazeera-reports-on-torture-inside-ho...
Egypt protests continue after football deaths - Friday 3 February ...
The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ... There were protests against the government across Syria today, partly in remembrance ... In Homs, in the west of the country, an al-Jazeera reportshowed a desolate, war-damaged ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/.../egypt
News Bulletin - 09:35 GMT update - YouTube
The main headlines on Al Jazeera English, featuring the latest news andreports ... Sakshi TV -- World news In Sakahi World Today 6...by Sakshitvcom0 views ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPnnuSiwzIk
TODAYonline | World | CCTV's expanding, but fetters remain - TODAY
But while Al-Jazeera's access and deep knowledge of the Middle East - and a ... everything in the news report is decided based on political considerations.
www.todayonline.com/.../CCTVs-expanding,-but-fetters-remai...
  
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