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Dec 14, 2011

AL JAZEERA News, Dec 14, 2011


Syria Army Defectors Kill 8 Soldiers in Retaliation, Group Says
BusinessWeek
14 (Bloomberg) -- At least eight Syrian soldiers died in an ambush by army defectors near Hama in retaliation for the killing of five civilians today, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Al Jazeera and Al Arabiyareported 30 people ...
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Life Under the Gaze of Gadhafi's Spies
Wall Street Journal
When Internet service became widespread in the country around 2004, he worked for online Arabic news outlets, including one of the top Libyan dissident sites, Libya Today. In 2007 he started writing for the website of al-Jazeera, the Arabic television ...
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Wall Street Journal
Tareq Ayoub: a 'martyr to the truth'
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera: Tareq was killed in Baghdad. Eight years on, what has his death meant for you? Dima Tahboub: Tareq was killed on April 8, 2003, nine years next April. His death came as a shock for us all. I understood Tareq was reporting a war. ...
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Aljazeera.com
Egyptians vote in second round elections
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's correspondents in Giza and Suez reported that fewer voters had turned out for the second round of elections than the first. Rawya Rageh, reporting from a polling station in Giza, described the turnout as "humble" but steady. ...
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Aljazeera.com
Satellite TV news, serials widen Iranian-Arab gulf
Reuters
Announcer Abdul Samad Nasser is seen in the studio of the Arabic Al Jazeerasatellite news channel in Doha in this February 7, 2011 file photo. Satellite television channels are widening the divide between Arabs and Iranians by airing alleged calls by ...
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Hong Kong beats US and UK as top financial center
GlobalPost
According to Al Jazeera, this is a first time any Asian city topped the WEF's Financial Development Report. It is also the first time that neither New York, in the US, or London, in the UK, took first place. Bloomberg Businessweek reported that the WEF ...
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The Global Note: Coming Home From Iraq…Panetta Warns Pakistan…China ...
ABC News (blog)
“In August 2010, Libyan journalist Khaled Mehiri shot an email to his editor atal-Jazeera proposing an article about the hollow nature of the Gadhafi regime's anticorruption efforts. Before the story was even written, the regime knew about it....
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Al Jazeera targets Indian market with Dish TV tie-up
Real Time News, India
The company had earlier announced its intention to beam its English language feed to the Indian market and was also reported to be interested in starting a Hindi news service. Al Jazeera, based out of the oil-rich kingdom of Qatar in West Asia,...
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Political technologies: tool of influence
The Voice of Russia
And some of the things were created, take for example Aljazeera, we were so happy, many of us, to listen Aljazeera reports, some of them were enticing, some of them were very attractive but with the course of time Aljazeera was taken by the most ...
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The Voice of Russia
Unheard Voices from Syria and the Middle East Harout Akdedian
Peace and Conflict Monitor
However, as soon as I checked Al Jazeera's reporting, it stated that a number of participants were injured and some were dead. Obviously, the report had exaggerated, or even fabricated the truth. These exaggerations are characteristic of media coverage ...
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Peace and Conflict Monitor
US and Russia at odds over UN stance on Syria
Aljazeera.com
Of those, 19 people were reported dead in Idlib, two in Homs, three in Hama and another three in Deraa. Two other bodies were also found on Tuesday, but Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh, reporting near the border with neighbouring Jordan, ...
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Financial chaos in Europe
Al Jazeera
There are yet no signs that the eurozone is finding its way out of the debt crisis. But Klaus Regling, the head of the European bailout fund, says there is enough money to keep Italy and Spain afloat, if they need it. Al Jazeera's Sonia Gallegoreports.
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18 Members of US Congress call for investigation of Sierra Leone logging scandal
Sierra Express Media
They also requested that the Department of State report to Congress with information regarding the progress of the Sierra Leonean investigation. A recentreport aired by Al Jazeera English, “Africa Investigates – Sierra Leone: Timber!,” showed footage ...
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Book Review: The New Arab Journalist
Arab News
Al-Jazeera galvanized the world's attention with its exclusive access to tapes from Bin Laden and its unparalleled coverage of the Second Gulf War while Al-Jazeera English distinguished itself with its reporting of the 2008-2009 Gaza War. ...
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Arab News
UCS at the Climate Talks in Durban
Union of Concerned Scientists
He also appeared on NPR, BBC radio, and the Al Jazeera television network. Tropical forest protection was one issue that found some resolution at the conference. At Durban countries were able to agree on two technical elements of REDD+: setting ...
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EU parliament awards Arab Spring activists Sakharov Prize
Al Jazeera
... the winners will share a prize of $65000. Past winners of the Sakharov Prize include anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and former UN chief Kofi Annan. Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba reports. Read Al Jazeera's article: http://aje.me/uaZ4md.
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Gunman on rampage in Belgium
Al Jazeera
At least five people have been killed and more than 120 others injured, after a lone gunman attacked holiday shoppers in the Belgian city of Liege. The 33-year-old man also threw grenades into a crowded square. Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowlandreports from ...
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Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry sells for $115m
Al Jazeera
... purchased for Taylor in 1969 for $37000 - set a world record for the $1.8m bid it received on the auction block. Despite its high price, the necklace had been previously estimated to sell for $2m to $3m. Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from New York.
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Butter shortages hit Norway
Al Jazeera
... as the country is suffering an 'acute' shortage of the dairy product. The country's entire stockpile has been consumed, causing a panic as Norwegians need butter to bake their traditional Christmas cookies. Al Jazeera's Charlie Angela reports.
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Protesters say Syrian government has increased attacks
Al Jazeera
The latest group appears to be the largest yet with some estimates saying 300 soldiers abandoned their posts. Despite this, many do not believe that civil war is imminent. Al Jazeera's Rula Amin reports from Beirut.
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US turns to drones to save money
Aljazeera.com
... which would save Washington DC the significant costs of hiring personnel to operate traditional planes. Demand for the aircraft is so high that manufacturers are struggling to keep up supply. Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan reports from Washington DC.
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Rising prices push Yemen's poor to the brink
Aljazeera.com
The country was deeply impoverished even before the latest unrest and with rising prices of food, gas and water, the poor are getting increasingly desperate. Al Jazeera's Jane Ferguson reports from the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
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Anger after Lowe's pulls ads from Muslim show
Aljazeera.com
... that hides the danger Islam represents to American liberties". Now a US senator says the company's "naked religious bigotry" must be corrected or a nation-wide boycott may be in store. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports from Great Falls, Virginia.
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So Long, Ontario Polar Bears
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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US defence chief sees progress in Afghanistan
Aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reported from Kabul that while the US and its allies are arguing that progress has been made ahead of the 2015 withdrawal, UN statistics that violence has peaked in 2011 contradict this assertion. "In the east of Afghanistan, ...
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Aljazeera.com
War Drills Sparks Rumor Mill, Sends Crude Sky High
International Business Times
Iran's oil minister in November told Qatar-based news agency Al Jazeera that his country intends to use oil as leverage in the event of a conflict involving its nuclear program, reported Reuters. Iranian legislator Parviz Sarvari also reportedly told ...
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International Business Times
Seeking professional help
C21Media
“In a world where we have grown from the availability of single-digit channels like BBC and ITV to hundreds including Sky, ESPN, Discovery, Al Jazeera and FX, we now think of a future with thousands, if not millions, of channels. ...
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C21Media
High Tide: From Hezbollah's Finance Connect To Siemens Fallout
Wall Street Journal (blog)
(Al Jazeera, Zawya Dow Jones sub req) A blockbuster story exposes the Lebanese Canadian Bank's alleged connections to Hezbollah's finances. The investigative piece shows everything from how the US came to issue a finding that the institution was a ...
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Chinese City Expels Communist Party Officials
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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Western Elite Wages Info-war to Justify Syria Invasion?
Center for Research on Globalization
The BBC and Qatar's supposedly-independent Al-Jazeera channel (which in reality is ideologically controlled by a part of the British-American elite) led the way in providing media support. For instance, the BBC reports that an independent commission of ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
Somali al Qaeda affiliate takes to Twitter
KTVQ Billings News
Al-Shabab's big unveiling to the twitterverse happened Tuesday, when they engaged in a social network back-and-forth with Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri, who conducted what was later dubbed a "twinterview" with them. @HSMPress told Moshiri they ...
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Will Egypt's Military Government Free Former Guantánamo Prisoner Imprisoned ...
Eurasia Review
In a report for Al-Jazeera, however, Katie Taylor noted that, despite this, “a prisoner was allegedly tortured to death three weeks ago” in the Tora prison.Reporting on the case that led to his in absentia conviction, the Herald noted that the ...
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Mali arrests AQIM suspects
UPI.com
Leaders of the organization said in an audio message broadcast by al-Jazeera in November 2010 that Paris should pull out of Afghanistan to save the lives of other hostages. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden issued a similar message in an audio message ...
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Paul Allen Enters Commercial Space Race
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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Tunisia Holds First Democracy Election
ThirdAge
He promised to remain faithful to the martyrs. "Without their sacrifice, I wouldn't be here in this place," al-Jazeera quoted him as saying. He took oath on Tuesday over the Koran, UPI reported. Tunisian voters stand in a line in Menzeh near Tunis ...
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ThirdAge
Clifton van der Linden and Kelly Hinton
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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Rowan Williams: Christians of Middle East are a litmus test for its future
Yorkshire Post
The means by which this revolutionary energy has spread across the region have been the social networking media of our age and the accessibility of goodreporting from many sources, not least Al-Jazeera. Yet the challenges to dictatorship have, ...
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Another Digital Dividend: Competitors Circling
followthemedia.com (subscription)
“Bad news” is how Canal+ chairman Bertrand Meheut views Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera buying up sports rights in its bid to establish the Al-Jazeera Sport channel. Speaking at a media conference (December 13), M. Meheut called the reported €61 ...
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Libya: Tripoli airport closed after rogue militia attacks garrison ...
The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ... A camera crew fromal-Jazeera reported they were assaulted by gunmen close to the scene of the ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/.../libya-tripoli-airport-militi...
UN rights chief urges protection for Syrians - Middle East - Al- News
She demanded the international community hold accountable the government ... Al Jazeera's ...
www.aljazeera.com/news/.../12/201112210143693945.html
Violations reported in Russia polls - Europe - Al Jazeera ... -News
Opposition and observers report poll irregularities, as ruling United Russia party loses ...
www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/.../201112415137463850.ht...
Judging the News | Psychology Today
With those two flags flying, Al Jazeera was an easy sell in its part of the world. ...preferred news of Africa, Asia and the Middle East to reports on the sex lives of ...
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/time-out/.../judging-the-new...
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Amanpour to return to CNN
CNN
"Christiane has had an absolutely remarkable year at ABC News, with world-beating exclusives," ABC News President Ben Sherwood said in a statement. "We're thrilled that she will be able to get back out in the field, bringing these important global ...
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