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AL JAZEERA News, May 02, 2012

Al Jazeera's Webby Award-winning The Stream at one
Journalism.co.uk
A year ago today Al Jazeera English was due to broadcast the first episode of a new social media TV show called The Stream. Producers and presenters had a show topic lined up and a social media community was an audience in waiting after a soft launch ...
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Journalism.co.uk
Remarks on Murdoch 'unjustified and partisan'
Aljazeera.com
Conservative committee member Louise Mensch said the report would "correctly be seen as 'partisan'" and that it had "lost a very great deal of its credibility". Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee, reporting from London, said thereport leaves Murdoch's ...
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Arab Advisors Group reveals 'Satellite Pay TV operators in the Arab World 2012 ...
AME Info
Expectedly, Al Jazeera Sports+ offers the highest number of sports Pay TV channels with 16 sports channels. A new report, "Satellite Pay TV operators in the Arab World 2012" was released to the Arab Advisors Group's Media Strategic Research Service ...
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French candidates to clash in crucial debate
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Andrews Simmons, reporting from Paris, described the debate as the "absolutely crucial" for Sarkozy. "[Sarkozy] is hoping for a knock-out blow. He will come out with swagger. He will push hard because he thinks he has nothing to lose at ...
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Right group accuses Syria of 'war crimes'
Aljazeera.com
Damascus has not commented on the report. It accuses foreign-backed armed groups of being behind the violence. Anita McNaught, reporting from near the Syrian border in Mardin, Turkey, said the report corroborated what Al Jazeera had witnessed in Syria.
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Aljazeera.com
Don't let Syria become Libya
Aljazeera.com
The recent Al Jazeera report that the Lebanese navy intercepted "a ship loaded with three containers of weapons destined for Syrian opposition forces" is the most recent indication that the incessantly increasing violence has long since assumed ...
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Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera English Launches in Haiti
mediabistro.com
By Betsy Rothstein on May 1, 2012 2:00 PM Al Jazeera English is now available on TV in Haiti through the multimedia service company NUtv™. Al Jazeera English will reach up to 40000 homes in Port au Prince in the first three months, and an additional ...
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Clinton faces human rights showdown in China
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Kuala Lumpur, said: "She [Clinton] has said very little about Chen. The US administration in general has said very little about it, and not even confirming whether the Chinese activist was in US hands in ...
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Chinese activist leaves US embassy in Beijing
Aljazeera.com
"Obviously, I'm aware of the press reports on the situation in China, but I'm not going to make a statement on the issue," the president said. "Every time we meet with China the issue of human rights comes up." Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, ...
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Egypt: Army Forces to Disperse Clashes, Presidential Candidates React, 11 Dead
AllAfrica.com
(Photo Courtesy Sarah Carr/Amnesty) Central army forces have moved to disperse violent clashes that have resulted in the death of 11 citizens by Egypt's Defence Ministry in Abassiya, reported Al-Jazeera. Eight armored vehicles arrived to the scene, ...
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UN threatens sanctions over Sudan dispute
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Peter Greste, reporting from Juba, said the UN resolution sets up a specific "timetable" and lists the steps that must be taken by each side must take to avoid sanctions. "[The resolution] is being welcomed buy the diplomats who have been ...
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Aljazeera.com
Dr Yousef Abu Safieh is Chairman of the Environment Quality Authority of...
Aljazeera.com
A recent report issued by the French Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee stated, "Some 450000 Israeli settlers on the West Bank use more water than the 2.3 million Palestinians that live there. In times of drought, in contravention of international ...
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Viewers outraged by Astro's censorship of BBC news
Malaysia Kini
But what can we do? We need to be entertained and we will still subscribe to Astro to watch world news from BBC, Al-Jazeera and CNN. But now, it appears, we can't even rely on foreign news channels to be 100 percent undoctored.
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UN Observers on Mission-to-Fail in Syria Lag on Staffing
BusinessWeek
Syrian rebels killed 15 soldiers in an ambush near Aleppo, Al Arabiya televisionreported today, while Al Jazeera said Assad's security forces killed five people. The military is targeting three Damascus suburbs with heavy machine guns and missiles, ...
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MENA now home to 143 pay TV channels
Rapid tv news
Of the four, Al Jazeera Sports+ offers the greatest amount of premium sporting channels, says the new report, 'Satellite Pay TV operators in the ArabWorld 2012'. Rival broadcaster Abu Dhabi Sports, operated by Abu Dhabi Media, however currently holds ...
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Media Advisory - CJF Forum: 'The First Casualty' in the Age of High-Tech Warfare
Sacramento Bee
Join moderator Tony Burman, Toronto Star foreign affairs columnist and former managing director of Al Jazeera English in a roundtable discussion including: psychiatrist Dr. Anthony Feinstein, featured in the documentary; Murray Brewster, ...
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Map: US bases encircle Iran
Aljazeera.com
"So, these bases are not necessarily because of Iran, but certainly Iran has given the US a compelling reason to further the number of bases," Kamrava told Al Jazeera. "But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Iran is encircled ...
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Must-Reads from Around the World: May 2, 2012
TIME (blog)
Vote Notes – As the French presidential run-off draws closer, Al Jazeera looks back at the first round of the elections, suggesting that the 80% voter turnout implies “the French really wanted to send a message through the ballots and still believe in ...
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TIME (blog)
Gulf of Mexico coast closed to shrimping
DigitalJournal.com
Dr James Cowan, with the Louisiana State University's Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences said in an interview with Al Jazeera, "The fishermen have never seen anything like this. And in my 20 years working on red snapper,...
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DigitalJournal.com
Opening the other eye: Charles Taylor and selective accountability
Aljazeera.com
But as Christine Cheng has shown in a perceptive article published online on Al Jazeera, there are some elements of this conviction that feed the suspicion that the West is up to its old hypocritical tricks of seizing the moral high ground while ...
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French journalist feared kidnapped in Colombia
Aljazeera.com (blog)
It was part of an Al Jazeera documentary called Shadow War, and part two, was, I suspect, fairly similar in many ways to the operation Langlois was on. I remember a day before the operation we sat in a classroom on tiny police air base in a sweltering ...
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Nod for independent probe
The Sun Daily
"We have no objection at all to forming an independent panel to verify whatever findings the police have, even against their (police) own personnel," Hishammuddin told a press conference here today. "We will do it. We want transparency; we want justice ...
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Rais defends Astro's Bersih censorship
Free Malaysia Today
“We strongly condemn any blocking of the trusted news that we broadcast around the world including via distribution partners.” It was learnt from SarawakReport that Astro had also allegedly “tampered” with an Al-Jazeera'sbroadcast of the massive ...
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'We've gone way beyond Apartheid'
Aljazeera.com
Now, the European council general in Jerusalem and Ramallah, a couple of months ago sent a report to the EU, saying that Israel has forcibly expelled the Palestinians from Area C. Forcible expulsion is hard language for European diplomats to use.
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Egyptian protesters killed in attack – Middle East live blog
The Guardian (blog)
Syria has also refused visas for three of them, the BBC reports. Monitors were seen in Binnish, in Idlib governorate, in al-Qusayr, in Homs, and Malaab, in Hama, today. • In a move to tighten sanctions against Syria and Iran, the US has announced new ...
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The Guardian (blog)
15 Dead as Egyptian Protestors Come Under Attack
The Media Line
Protesters were not the only ones being targeted, with the Al-Jazeeratelevision network's correspondent on the ground, Rawya Rageh, reportingthat a police general told her, “May all those working for Al-Jazeera die.” The attackers outside Ein Shams ...
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Middle East turns to local TV: Arab Media Outlook
Rapid tv news
Al Jazeera's live political talk show Al Etijah Al Moakes claimed the highest number of viewers in the UAE, followed by general entertainment shows such as Arab Idol, Dance India Dance, and other imported programmes like Jeopardy, Comedy Circus and ...
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Swift Boat Narrative Holds Dynamite for Obama
The Moderate Voice
She has written for The Hill, US News & World Report, among others, and has been profiled in the Washington Post, The New Republic, and seen on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Arabic, as well as on radio ...
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The Moderate Voice
BSkyB was dragged firmly into the centre of the hacking storm engulfing Rupert ...
Business Standard
Shares in BSkyB had been riding at their highest level in almost 10 years until revelations in July 2011 that an investigator for Murdoch's now defunct News of the World newspaper had hacked into the voicemail messages of murdered school girl Milly ...
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Egypt deploys army to quell deadly clashes
Aljazeera.com
"This has been an ongoing sit-in for the past five days," Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh reported from central Cairo, saying that the latest skirmishes began early on Wednesday morning in the neighbourhood near the Abbasiya subway station.
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Aljazeera.com
A year after bin Laden, the Arab world has other concerns
The Times of Israel
The daily reports 43 dead across Syria in clashes between government and opposition forces. “Syria: The killing continues, and the UN: Tanks are still in the cities,” reads the headline of Saudi-owned daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat, published in London.
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The Times of Israel
Double Exposure
Moment Magazine
Al Jazeera tells us what's going on in the Arab world, and the Arab media [in Israel] deals with what happens to us, 'the 48-er's.'” Khoury agrees. “The Arab citizen is zapping,” he says using the Hebrew word for channel surfing—l'zapzep.
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Central & South Asia Taliban claim deadly attacks in Kabul
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Kabul, said: "The Taliban is claiming responsibility for this attack on the Green Village, saying it is connected to the visit of the US president." The blasts began at around 1:30 GMT (6:00am local time).
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Aljazeera.com
Troops battle for control of Mali's capital - World News
San Francisco Luxury News
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Bamako, journalist Martin Vogl said that he was in the centre of town on Monday when gunfire broke out. “Around 5pm or 6pm, local time … we started to hear quite heavy gunfire, automatic weapon fire, coming from a couple of ...
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Is Iran Really a Threat?
Huffington Post (blog)
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor has conceded this contextual nuance recently in an interview with Al Jazeera: "They didn't say 'we'll wipe it out', you are right -- but [that] it will not survive, it is a cancerous tumor; it should be removed ...
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Bin Laden lived life of 'domestic bliss' in final years
CTV.ca
Osama bin Laden, left, and his top lieutenant Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, right, are seen at an undisclosed location in this television image broadcast, Oct. 7, 2001. (AP / Al-Jazeera) Pakistani media film as authorities use heavy machinery to demolish ...
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CTV.ca
Nigeria Under siege
Nigeria Intel
This incident and the subsequent prejudicial execution of close to eight hundred youths suspected to be Boko Haram members by the Police, as reported by Aljazeera in 2009, jeopardised a golden opportunity for the Federal Government to solve the Boko ...
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Nigeria Intel
RIM Will Fork Over $10000 for Your BB10 Apps
The Mark
Research In Motion released their all-or-nothing smartphone to the public at the annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, and while investors weren't too keen on the phone, the Waterloo-based company is hoping third-party app developers can give ...
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Nowhere Else In The World Do We Find Censorship Like This! – Al ...
By Sarawak Report
“Our news report was a factual account of events that day, and intrusion in our editorial process is unwarranted. We have not been censored in this way by another distribution platform anywhere in the world.” What breaches? Al Jazeera's ...
Sarawak Report
Arab Advisors Group reveals 'Satellite Pay TV operators in the Arab ...
... in UAE, Saudi Arabia » · Zee Aflam now also available on Arabsat at 12111 MHz » ... A new report, "Satellite Pay TV operators in the Arab World 2012" was released to the Arab Advisors Group's Media Strategic Research Service subscribers on April 10, 2012. The 65-page report, which has 25 detailed exhibits, analyzes the landscape of satellite Pay TV and profiles the four operators including OSN, Al Jazeera Sports+, Abu Dhabi Sports and Al Majd. The report also compares the ...
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UN team tours Syria amid reports of violence - Middle East - Aljazeera
The reports of violence comes as Kofi Annan, the Arab-UN envoy, asked the Assad government and the opposition to ... "Today is the first day since two months, exactly since 5 February... in Homs without shelling... without killing, ...Top News Accordion. Top News. Spain unemployment hits record high .... AlJazeera World ...
www.aljazeera.com/news/.../04/2012422131314515694.html
Winner takes all: RT Arabic now crushing Al Jazeera with high ...
I think this explains the recent hit pieces by Al Jazeera and the New York Times ... “Keiser Report” is probably the most viewed business and finance show in the world ... If as sometimes happens a news story proves unreliable, then a rapid ...
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Foreign News Al Jazeera Reported Malaysia Protest Rally Bersih ...
Foreign News Al Jazeera Reported Malaysia Protest Rally Bersih 3.0 ...Upgrade now or more info. ... Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment! ....Continued world protest against zionist genocideby Kumail121706 views · Pitbull - Back In ...
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Syria's Field Hospitals: Al Jazeera Reports From Northern Syria ...
Reporting for Al Jazeera from Syria's northern province of Idlib, Anita McNaught followed activists ... "In Syria today, wounded patients and doctors are pursued, and risk torture and arrest at the hands of the .... More World News at latimes.com ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../syrias-field-hospitals_n_1445915...
Nowhere Else In The World Do We Find Censorship Like This! – Al ...
The Middle East's leading TV News Service, Al Jazeera, has given its own appalled ... Sarawak Report can now reveal for the first time just how the sinister and ...
www.sarawakreport.org/.../nowhere-else-in-the-world-do-we-f...
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