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AL JAZEERA News, Jun 13, 2012

Al Jazeera rumoured to be ready for Premier League rights bid
Rapid tv news
Reports of Al Jazeera's intention to bid for the Premier League have been circulating the industry since October 2011, with the company said to be looking at rights to broadcast the English Premier League in both the Arabworld and on a pay per view ...
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UN official calls Syria conflict 'civil war'
Aljazeera.com
UN peacekeeping chief says government has lost "large chunks of territory" as activists report more shelling in Homs. The head of the United Nations' peacekeeping operations has said that the situation in Syria now amounts to a full-scale civil war as ...
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Dozens Die in Iraq Bombings
Salon
(AP/Alaa al-Marjani) In Iraq, a series of attacks targeting Shiite pilgrims has killed at least 56 people, Al Jazeera reported. Four bombings at different locations in the capital Baghdad, along with a spate of shootings, left as many as 30 people dead ...
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How Russian and Chinese media justify Syrian support
BBC News
A regular feature of Russian television's coverage of the Syrian crisis has been that Western media and the pan-Arab channelAl-Jazeera have been waging an "information war" against the Assad regime. As the death of Sunday Times correspondent Marie ...
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BBC News
11-year-old boy-threat to Bahrain released from prison
Al-Bawaba
One of the child's lawyers, Mohsen al-Alawi, told Al Jazeera on Monday that judges had decided to release the boy but that his trial was set to continue on June 20. The boy, Ali Hasan, faces charges of joining an illegal gathering and other claims ...
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Al-Bawaba
A Cup Of Coffee Now Costs More In Athens Than In Berlin
Business Insider
A new poll has found that Athens is the world's 78th most expensive city for non-locals, making it more expensive than Berlin, which sits at 106th, ekathimerini.com reports. But it does show one weird thing about the Greek crisis — a lot of consumer...
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Business Insider
Brazil 'slow' on World Cup preparations
News Tribe
Five per cent of the projects have been finished, 41 per cent have not yet been started, and 75 per cent of the stadiums [8 of 12] are not even half way complete, Al Jazeera reported. However, many think though construction is going on at al slower ...
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News Tribe
Dozens Killed, Hundreds Wounded By Wave Of Attacks In Iraq
NPR (blog)
A bomb in it exploded — one of a series of coordinated attacks today on Shiite Muslims across the country. Smoke rises from the wreckage of a vehicle in Kirkuk, Iraq. A bomb in it exploded — one of a series of coordinated attacks today on Shiite ...
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Sudanese journalists stymied by "red lines" and raids
Reuters
"You don't know what the red lines are," said Saleh, who started his career in 1949 when Britain still ruled Sudan and is now editor of Sudan's oldest newspaper, Al-Ayam. "Sometimes you are told 'don't publish this' but they (the red lines) keep moving ...
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Russia will confront any US-led attack on Syria: Analyst
Press TV
They have had a first meeting in Doha; this was for basicallyreporting this coup to the world. That would be with the participation of Al-Arabiya, Aljazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and MTV. So that is the external part.
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Press TV
Burma violence erupts on western border
Washington Post (blog)
(Reuters) The violence was sparked after the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by members of Burma's Muslim minority population, the Rohingya, this month and the retaliatory lynching of three Muslims, according toal-Jazeera.
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Bahrain: Immediately Release Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab
Salem-News.Com
Nabeel Rajab was arrested a day after he appeared onAl-Jazeera TV show AJStream and criticized the lack of serious reform and the continuation of violations against the people of Bahrain. With 140000 Twitter followers, Mr Rajab is a high-profile user ...
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Salem-News.Com
KONY 2012: The True Reason Why the US Is In Uganda: Petroleum Politics
Spyghana.com
Al Jazeera reported in early 2012 that Ugandan viewers were outraged at the documentary. “The mood turned more to anger at what many people saw as a foreign, inaccurate account that belittled and commercialised their suffering, as the film promotes ...
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Human Rights Group Documents Violence From Inside Syria
New York Times (blog)
By J. DAVID GOODMAN Syria's state news agency said that after days of heavy shelling and intense fighting in the northwestern Latakia Province, government forces had retaken the rebellious village of Al Heffa, driving antigovernment fighters out.
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Arab world gets new trailblazer for women in politics
Reuters UK
By Hamid Ould Ahmed | ALGIERS (Reuters) - Now that Algeria has the largest proportion of women lawmakers in the Arab world, workmen at the national assembly building have some urgent modifications to make. While the men's washroom just outside the ...
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Qatar 2022: Report Puts Focus on Worker's Rights
MidEastPosts
The human rights group published the letter as part of its report on the same day that Qatar-owned Al Jazeera English broadcast interviews with foreign workers standing in front of the labor ministry in Doha to complain about the fact that their ...
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Iraq: Attacks targeting Shiite pilgrims kill more than 70
GlobalPost
In the central city of Hilla, 22 people died when two car bombs were detonated outside restaurants near a local police academy, while in the Shiite city of Balad, north of Baghdad, a further two car bombings killed four people,reported Al Jazeera.
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Iraq and Iran: A Partnership Made in America
Huffington Post (blog)
Indeed, according to Wadah Khanfar, former director general of Al Jazeera, Iraq is still the most important story in the Middle East -- with a far greater impact on the region's future than Syria. "Nobody's paying attention to Iraq anymore," he told me ...
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Series of explosions in Iraq kill 42 people
Trend.az
A series of explosions hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the city of Al-Hillah on Wednesday, Al-Jazeera TV channel reported. According to preliminary data, 42 people were killed and hundreds injured. In Al-Hillah explosions were committed by two car ...
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Trend.az
Thousands of Russians march against Putin's return to Kremlin
Catholic Online
Now we realize this illegitimate authority is making decisions which break all the rules," one protestor told an Al Jazeera correspondent. Putin appeared reconciliatory, saying the demonstrations were signs of a healthy democracy, wanting to engage in ...
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UN confirms Syrian nightmare and Mubarak fears death plot in prison
The Times of Israel
“In Homs, today is no different than yesterday, aside from the extent of damage,” declares a reporter for Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera Wednesday, narrating footage of heavy bombardment of residential areas. “Some hoped that placing Bashar Assad ...
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The Times of Israel
'Qatar lacks single shred of democracy'
Press TV
Number one we have to realize that Qatar is not democracy, it does not have a single process of democracy meaning that Qatar does not have any single election at any level so it is an absolute monarchy where the Al Thani control the state and all of ...
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Press TV
Russia accused of supplying Syria with attack helicopters
Mail & Guardian Online
The Syrian Revolution General Commission reported 36 people killed on Tuesday, mostly as a result of heavy shelling of the central city of Homs. Residents of the city's Khalidiya neighbourhood told Al Jazeera TV they had been trapped in their homes for ...
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Middle East Media Sampler for June 13, 2012
GLORIA Center (blog)
Apparently, one of the pastimes of the Abbas family is to sue news organizations that report on them. They've sued Al-Jazeera, Reuters, and Israel's Channel 1. (Thanks to In Context for the research.) I guess when you can't jail the journalists, ...
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US-NATO and the GCC Preparing a Coup d'état in Syria
Scoop.co.nz
The first meeting assembled PSYOP officers, embedded in the satellite TV channels of Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and MTV. It is known that since 1998, the officers of the US Army Psychological Operations Unit (PSYOP) ...
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Telecom Italia accelerate sale of La7
Advanced Television
Following the recent separation of broadcast (La7, La7d and MTV Italia) and transmission activities of Telecom Italia Media, parent company Telecom Italia is now determined to speed up the sale of national broadcaster La7. According to local media ...
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Burma riots: What the media isn't telling you
Asia Sentinel
One thing people seem loath to report is the blatantly racist element to the unrest, for which Buddhist Burmese and Arakanese must take the bulk of responsibility (perhaps however it is because they have greater access to media in which to vent ...
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New Attempts to Free Kidnapped Saudi Diplomat in South Yemen
Yemen Observer
Determined to “cleanse Yemen from al-Qaeda”, President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi however refused to bow to pressure, calling for yet more troops to assault the Islamists. Tribal sources in touch with al-Qaeda militantsreported “there is an increasing ...
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A Reply to Matthew Schmitz
National Review Online
Written by an acolyte Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — the Brotherhood's major theoretician, lionized Qatari cleric, popular al-Jazeera television personality, and head of the European Fatwa Council — the document, entitled “An Explanatory Memorandum On ...
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BT Vision Win Broadcast Rights To Premier League Football
Huffington Post UK
There had been rumours that Arabic broadcaster Al Jazeera had been bidding for the coveted rights, raising their price after winning rights to the 2022 World Cup, however Premier League officials would not confirm who had expressed interest.
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US Military Lobbies For War With Syria
Just International
At the general assembly, Syria's permanent representative, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, said that the massacre was committed five hours before any clashes happened, and that the images broadcast by Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya were not those of massacre victims ...
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NBA Finals 2012 to Have Unprecedented Live Global Coverage Across TV, Internet ...
Inland Valley News
Journalists from other top Indian outlets will also be onsite including Times of India, the Hindu, and Times Now. Al Jazeera will televise the games live for fans in the Middle East; fans in Africa will receive expanded coverage with three partners ...
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China Is Secondary Target of Sanctions on Iran
Antiwar.com
They can now continue to do business with Iranian oil, so long as they voluntarily reduce their imports by significant margins. China buys as much as a fifth of Iran's crude exports and remains the one major trading partner who will still face ...
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World markets extend fall on growth fears - Europe - Al Jazeera ...
Investors have been scared by a US report showing a sharp slowdown in the... but to seek an international bailout which would of course be enormously bad news for a ... The chairman of Cyprus Popular Bank also suggested an EU loan now ...
www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/.../20126416399430551.htm...
Egypt Live Blog | Al Jazeera Blogs
The state MENA news agency reports that the six acquitted police chiefs from yesterday's verdict are ... At Tora today, Mubarak received his blue prison uniform and prisoner number, reports Al Jazeera's Nadia Magd from Cairo. ... presidential elections begins tdy, 141 polling stations open up around the world # EgyPresElex ...
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog?page=1&f%5B0%5D=field...
Torture By Sesame Street At Guantanamo Bay: Al Jazeera Reports ...
Torture By Sesame Street At Guantanamo Bay: Al Jazeera Reports World News. ... Now, a new documentary from Al Jazeera shows that detainees may also have been ... I do't think the mods allow polls in the news but would you rather be ...
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New pan-Arab satellite to challenge al Jazeera | Ya Libnan | World ...
Ya Libnan features frequently updated breaking news, world news, op-eds and ... quit Qatar-based Al-Jazeera last year to protest its reporting of the uprising in Syria. Since the revolt began 15 months ago, some Arabs accusedAl Jazeera of ...
www.yalibnan.com/.../new-pan-arab-satellite-to-challenge-al-j...
War of the remote controls: new Arabic TV channel challenges Al ...
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