Al Jazeera stories:
Leaders meet to elect EU president
Nov 19th, 2009 - Al Jazeera English
Leaders from the European Union's 27 member states are meeting in the Belgian capital to decide on who will become the bloc's first full-time president.
The decision is...Stephens: Two Ground Zeroes
Nov 17th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
I have long thought it would be a good idea to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his accomplices to lower Manhattan. In my concept, the men would be taken...Honduras unity talks 'fail'
Nov 6th, 2009 - Al Jazeera English
Supporters of Honduras's ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, and the de facto leader, Roberto Micheletti, have failed to create a unity cabinet.
Micheletti had said he would preside over the swearing-in of a national unity and reconciliation government.US 'committed to settlement freeze'
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Al Jazeera English
Clinton said that the US president has wrung more concessions from Israel than his predecessors [AFP] The US secretary of state has said that Washington remains committed...
Clinton Says 'Could Have Been Clearer' on Settlements
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clintonsaid today she “could have been clearer” when speaking aboutPresident Barack Obama’s policy toward Israeli West Banksettlements during a visit to Jerusalem.
Al Jazeera videos from YouTube:
1:46Oprah decides to sign off in 2011 - 21 Nov 09
show, averaging 7.1 million viewers this year. However, when she ends her run at ABC on September 9, 2011 - 25 years to the day since she began - she will be moving on to cable television ...
6:45US yet to sign UN child rights treaty 20 years on - 20 Nov 09
a functioning government for most of the last two decades and the US. Barack Obama, the US president, has said he wants to change that, but he faces opposition from congress. Critics say the ...
5:51New Unesco chief talks to Al Jazeera - 18 Nov 09
Irina Bokova was appointed director general of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) last month after a controversial election. In Doha to address the first world innovation summit for education ...
3:11Ex-Iraqi translator wins UK asylum - 19 November 09
British forces pulled out of the Iraqi city of Basra, many who worked for them are feeling abandoned. An estimated 20000 Iraqis worked for the British forces, but like those who worked for US forces, many have been villified ...
Al Jazeera from WikiPedia:
Al Jazeera (Arabic: ???????? al-jaz?rah, IPA: [ald?a?zi?ra]), which means "The Island" or "The Peninsula" (in reference to the Arabian Peninsula) in Arabic, referring to the network's status as the only independent news network in the Middle East,[citation needed] is a television network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. Initially launched as an Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel with the same name, Al Jazeera has since expanded into a network with several outlets, including the Internet and specialty TV channels in multiple languages, and in several regions of the world.
The original Al Jazeera channel's willingness to broadcast dissenting views, including on call-in shows, created controversies in Gulf Arab states. The station gained worldwide attention following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when it was the only channel to cover the war on Afghanistan live from its office there and broadcast video statements by Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders (see Videos of Osama bin Laden).
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