"A car bomb exploded at the front gate of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Wednesday, killing six Yemeni guards and four civilians, a security official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that the embassy in the Yemeni capital of...
The latest reports from sources in the Middle East indicate that Al Qaeda brass are not very happy with Iran and have begun a fierce public relations attack on the Islamic Republic accusing it of collaborating with...
After seeing a photo on the web page of Rush Limbaugh guest host Jason Lewis, I realized dropped dropped MSNBC political anchors Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews probably can’t be blamed for being too biased as...
"Do we really need another news aggregator to follow in the footsteps of Google News, Digg, Reddit, Netvibes and the rest? Well, the founders of NewsCred have decided we do - and they reckon they've got two killer angles which will make their service, launched today, into a...
Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was being held under house arrest in the capital Nouakchott on Wednesday, 6 August, after the presidential guard rounded up the country's civilian leadership....
Journalist Sami Al-Hajj has been returned to Sudan after six years of imprisonment, and is speaking out publicly about the conditions he endured in Guantanamo Bay.Some of his most powerful words came Friday: “My...
" Khartoum, Sudan - An Al-Jazeera cameraman was released from US custody at Guantanamo Bay and returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests. Sami al-Haj arrived...
Al-Jazeera has pushed its way into the mainstream news cycle with the launch of its English language channel last year. I was in Jerusalem last year when the bureau opened there. It was greeted with much skepticism by Israeli officials and media yet was treated as a...
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"Arab countries, at the initiative of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday adopted a document which imposes "regulations" on Arab satellite television and bars offending their regimes.
Over the opposition solely of Qatar, the home of Al-Jazeera, information ministers of the...
I'm very curious to hear any opinions on this story.ASIO is the Australian equivalent of the CIA, standing for: Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, - however they resemble England's MI-5 more closely in...
"Qatar feels the chill
What reasons could George Bush have for giving Qatar the cold shoulder? One: its support and bankrolling of al-Jazeera
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""It would be better for you if you (restrained) your politicians who flock to the White House and worked actively to end the wrong done to the oppressed," he said."I am responsible" for the attacks on New York and...
Did the US Air Force conduct the mysterious air raid on Syria which has been at the center of swirling global speculation since it was conducted in September? Did this attack allow the USA to field test its...
This is gutsy journalism--something that's become an Al-Jazeera trademark. Despite the crackdown on media, Internet access, bloggers, journalists, and the fatal shooting of a Japanese news photographer,...
Despite the government crackdown on outside communication, Al-Jazeera's un-named correspondent in Myanmar continues to get news out. "He wore a Manchester United football shirt and had only two front teeth. He was 72 years of age and said his name was Ny and a former...