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AL JAZEERA News, Dec 28, 2011

Syria: human rights groups challenge leadership of Arab League mission
The Guardian
Al-Jazeera television footage from Hama showed gunfire, rising black smoke and men marching through the streets chanting "Where are the Arab monitors?". One man appeared to be bleeding from the neck. The appointment of Dabi as the head of the observer ...
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The Guardian
High Tide: From Strait Threats To India's AML Proposal
Wall Street Journal (blog)
(AP, Keir Radnedge, Al Jazeera, AP, BBC, Bleacher Report) The FCPA Blog has a guest post from Jeffrey Kaplan and asks whether 2012 will be the year of living cleanly in Russia. The FCPAProfessor checks in on some surveys. ...
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New US 'eye' phone technology developed
Al Jazeera
That could soon become a reality thanks to a group of researchers in the US. The add-on gadget for smartphones could potentially help millions of people around theworld. Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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"Nothing frightening" seen in Syria protest hotbed
Reuters
At least seven people were reported wounded. Al Jazeera television showed gunfire, rising black smoke and men in Hama marching through the streets chanting, "Where are the Arab monitors?" One was bleeding from the neck. Hama has suffered violence ...
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North Korea holds funeral for Kim Jong Il
GlobalPost
The North Korean military today began the two-day funeral services of late leader Kim Jong Il with a procession in the capital, Pyongyang, that ended with a 21-gun salute, Al Jazeera reported. State television footage showed crowds of mourners lining ...
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GlobalPost
Argentine president diagnosed with cancer
Al Jazeera
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She is due to have surgery in Buenos Aires next month. Al Jazeera's Nazanin Sadri reports.
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Women wrestle in on the action
Al Jazeera
The flamboyant costumes and over the top characters have made wrestling one of the most popular sports in Mexico. Women are now starting to play their part in what was once a male dominated pastime. Al Jazeera's Rahul Pathak reports.
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The year's top story is not getting coverage
Aljazeera.com
There have been some Al Jazeera docs, but business channels like CNBC prefer to focus on greed by colourful bad guys, not the more boring but ultimately criminal practices by banks. Most of our media is mesmerised by the antics of individuals, ...
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Aljazeera.com
Iran repeats threat to close Straits of Hormuz oil shipping lane
Daily Mail
After a news agency mistakenly reported the straight had already been closed, crude oil prices leapt by almost $2 to $100.45/per barrel, but they later stabilised. Last month, Iran's energy minister told Al Jazeera that Tehran could use oil as a ...
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Daily Mail
Nicaragua volcano beckons thrill seekers
Al Jazeera
... is the latest in extreme sports for thrill seekers. To try volcano boarding, thousands of travellers are heading to Nicaragua's second largest city, Leon, better known for its Spanish colonial architecture and legacy. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levinreports.
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Colombian slum gets outdoor escalator
Al Jazeera
For some residents of the Colombian city of Medellin, a trip to the city centre meant a long and dangerous trek through one of the city's most violent areas. Ascending 384 metres, a new escalator project has changed that. Al Jazeera'sGerald Tan reports.
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Turkmenistan's quest for 'white gold'
Al Jazeera
Critics say the quest for cotton is unsustainable with Turkmenistan expected to get only drier due to climate change and increasing doubts about its elaborate new irrigation solutions. Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker reports from the Ahal region.
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Press digest
Times of Malta
Al Jazeera reports that tens of thousands of protesters in Syria have filled the streets of Homs as Arab League observers visited the city to monitor a peace agreement. According to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory, the regime's security forces have ...
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50000 Hit in Stratfor Hack
The Mark
Yasheng Huang International Program Professor, Chinese Economy and Business and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Tony Burman Former managing director; current head of strategy for the Americas, Al Jazeera ...
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The Arab Spring, Year One, in Videos
The Atlantic
Yemeni doctor Hamza Shargabi is also a blogger and an amateur filmmaker who has been carefully following his country's protests and the government's response in a series of web videos so polished they could be mistaken for Al Jazeera stand-ups. ...
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Mubarak returns to court after three months
IBNLive.com
A heavy security cover of as many as 5000 policemen was thrown in to secure the proceedings held at a police academy on the outskirts of the capital, Al Jazeera reported. While a few supporters of the deposed president assembled outside the premises ...
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Israelis rally against gender segregation
Al Jazeera
... and verbally harassing an eight-year-old girl. Protesters held signs at the protest saying "Free Israel from religious coercion" and "Stop Israel from becoming Iran".Al Jazeera's Cal Perry reports from Beit Shemesh, 30km to the west of Jerusalem.
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US in dilemma over Saleh's visa request
Al Jazeera
... which forced him to go to Saudi Arabia for treatment. Last month he signed a deal to hand over powers under an agreement brokered by the Gulf Co-operation Council, which also provided him immunity from prosecution. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports.
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Adele's "21" Top Seller Since 2004
The Mark
Yasheng Huang International Program Professor, Chinese Economy and Business and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Tony Burman Former managing director; current head of strategy for the Americas, Al Jazeera ...
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Indian anti-graft activist ends fast
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Prena Suri, reporting from Mumbai, said: "While a lot of Indians still support Hazare's movement, there's been a shift in debate. Many more are questioning his method and they say parliament should be allowed to debate and make laws. ...
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Arab news network to open in Bahrain
UPI.com
The network plans to cover political, economic and social issues in the Arabworld. Jamal Khashoggi, former editor of Al Watan, an independent newspaper in Saudi Arabia, has been named to head the network, which will compete with Doha-based Al Jazeera ...
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Putin rejects call for poll re-run
Al Jazeera
In his first public comments since the demonstrations, Putin hit back at opposition leaders accusing them of being at the beck and call of foreign powers and of trying to delegitimise the election process. Al Jazeera's Simon MacGregor Woodreports from ...
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JDL and far-right parties find common ground
Aljazeera.com
"The JDL has tried to move their politics to the right," he told Al Jazeera. "They are quite a fringe organisation, but made a bit more respectable by more mainstream Zionist organisations that give them a platform; organisations who support them, ...
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Aljazeera.com
Karzai 'accepts' Taliban office in Qatar
Al Jazeera
... force to be reckoned with, despite a decade of war. One complication to negotiations with the Taliban is that many Afghans still view them with suspicion and say they should answer for their past crimes. Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glassereports From Kabul.
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Ex-PI journalist will never forget screams of torture in Syrian prison
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Parvaz sent to Syrian last May to report for Al-Jazeera English on mass uprisings against the Assad dictatorship, in which the regime has killed thousands and lately sent tanks against the city of Homs. She was kept three days in a Syrian detention ...
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High Tide: From The Lokpal Debate To Arab League Monitors
Wall Street Journal (blog)
(Al Jazeera, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg) France threatened sanctions on Yemen for its deadly crackdown on protesters. (AFP) US President Barack Obama raised concerns about Venezuela's backing of Iran, and Venezuela's leader fired back. ...
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Douglas Pike: We must open our eyes to modern-day slavery
Rockford Register Star
CNN has poured its resources into a series of special reports on slavery, and theAl Jazeera network recently followed suit. Millions have seen slavery in movies such as “Call + Response,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” (based on the Stieg Larsson ...
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Midday Scan: A new UW model; 2011's worst political gaffes; still no cheap liquor
Crosscut (blog)
"Parvaz was sent to Syria last May to report for Al-Jazeera English on mass uprisings against the Assad dictatorship, in which the regime has killed thousands and lately sent tanks against the city of Homs," the Seattlepi.com reports. ...
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2011 in Review: Biggest Sports Stories
The Mark
Yasheng Huang International Program Professor, Chinese Economy and Business and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Tony Burman Former managing director; current head of strategy for the Americas, Al Jazeera ...
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Saudi Arabia to open domestic market to foreign carriers
CAPA - Centre for Aviation
Saudi Arabian General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) announced it would open tenders in Jan-2012 to award licences for foreign carriers to operate domestic andinternational flights from Saudi airports. According to reports by Arab News, ...
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Will 2012 be the year of hypermedia?
GigaOm
Starting in February, he will work with Al Jazeera for a year to advance open source news innovation. “I hope to take the opportunity to develop the Hyperaudio Pad and other hyperaudio techniques and figure out how a newsroom can make use of these ...
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GigaOm
Tensions simmer as Iraqi leaders try resolve crisis
Reuters
"If the meeting is not held or if the meeting fails, then we have to go for early elections and God forbid if we have a conflict or sectarian war, we will not be party to it," he told Al Jazeera television in an interview. Lawmakers said the blocs were...
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US Think Tank Hacked by Anonymous
Infopackets
Experts believe that Stratfor was selected as a target because success would send a warning to some of the company's clients, including media outlets like MSNBC and Al Jazeera English, as well as the US Army and Air Force. Their status as Stratfor ...
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Al Jazeera English Among Winners of DuPont Broadcast Awards
The international news network Al Jazeera won a DuPont Award, presented by Columbia University, for a report on the pace of recovery in Haiti. CBS, NBC ...
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/.../al-jazeera-english-among-...
Al Jazeera English wins first duPont as 14 news orgs awarded with ...
Al Jazeera English has won its first Alfred I. duPont award for excellence in ...AJE is in English and covers issues in America and across the world for an ... “ breaking news coverage, reporting with innovative storytelling and content, and ...Visually stunning, the film showed the central experiences affecting today'sveterans. ...
www.poynter.org/.../al-jazeera-english-wins-first-dupont-as-14...
Egypt's military clashes with protesters – USATODAY ... - USA Today
An American producer for Al Jazeera English, Evan Hill, was beaten by military police and his ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-12-16/egypt.../1
Syria, Egypt and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news ...
Al-Jazeera reports a "show of strength" from the government, with thousands of supporters out on the streets of Damascus today. "A huge crowd gathered in ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-egypt-middle-east-unrest-live
Syrian troops 'ordered to shoot to kill' - Middle East - Al Jazeera - News
Human Rights Watch report accuses dozens of officials and commanders over ... Council to ...
www.aljazeera.com/news/.../12/2011121554026147645.html
Syria signs Arab League peace deal - Middle East - Al Jazeera - News
"There are many countries in the world who don't wish to admit the presence of ... Al ...
www.aljazeera.com/news/.../12/2011121911942857586.html
Al Jazeera English Among Winners of DuPont Broadcast Awards ...
The international news network Al Jazeera won a DuPont Award, presented by Columbia University, for a report on the pace of recovery in Haiti. CBS, NBC ...
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/.../al-jazeera-english-among-...
Top 10 sources of news and comment on Africa in 2011
Yet so much of the media is devoid of international reporting and that little that... in news reporting: in April, Al Jazeera launched The Stream, a web show which ... a new narrative about Africa today and using social media and social networks ...
www.africaontheblog.com/top-10-sources-of-news-and-comm...
The World Today - Media review faces criticism 15/12/2011
The World Today is a comprehensive current affairs program which ... Tim McDonald reported this story on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:26:00 ... it in the New York Times or watch on Al Jazeera news about what's happening in Mildura. ...
www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3391496.htm
KCET Adds 'Nightly Business Report' to its News Lineup | Press ...
"We are pleased to announce the return of Nightly Business Report to KCET at ...and expand our international news block of BBC World News, Al JazeeraEnglish , ... in-depth reporting and insightful perspective needed to navigatetoday's ...
www.kcet.org/.../kcet-adds-nightly-business-report-to-its-news...
On Campus | Columbia News
... announced today by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. ...international reporting including stories from Al Jazeera English, CBS News,...
news.columbia.edu/home/2632
Terror suit spurs search at dealership | Tulsa World
By GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer ... "The intricate scheme laid out intoday's complaint reveals the deviously creative ways ... World staff writer Curtis Killman contributed to this report ... Al Jazeera is a legitimate international news source. ...
www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid...11...
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