Back in October, when Barack Obama was announced as the surprise winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, the media went into overdrive. Outlets across the political spectrum were united, for a change, but mostly in their bemusement at how a new leader of a country in the middle of two wars could w...
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intelligence to help the Yemeni government launch a series of deadly raids against suspected al-Qaeda bases in the country, the New York Times has reported. Barack Obama, the US president approved the military and intelligence support after receiving a request from the Yemeni government, the new...
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Imprisoned for six years without being charged or given a trial, Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al Hajj was finally released from the US Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The man, who was "emaciated," as his attorney said, because of his hunger strike which began in January 2007, was taken to...
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Al Jazeera English World News airs as a part of Link TV’s Global News Hour, together with Link's Mosaic: World News From the Middle East. This Mobile Bulletin covers rallies in Iran, Jimmy Carter advocating for human rights in Gaza, and the arrests of television journalists in Afghanistan.
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(Mosaic Intelligence Report: November 26, 2008) Al Jazeera’s Listening Post looks at the US air raid on Eastern Syria last month, and the way that story was covered. There are two conflicting narratives: Damascus says four US helicopters illegally entered Syrian airspace from Iraq and killed inn...
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(Al Jazeera English: November 20, 2009) Local and international forces in Afghanistan have been accused of shooting innocent civilians as they slept. The military, who arrest two other men, says one has links to Al Qaeda. The UN is urging the world to help up to a billion children who are still ...
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Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo and plans to take paying customers for a two-and-a-half hour trip into sub-orbital space as early as next year.
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(Mosaic Intelligence Report: January 17, 2008) George Bush takes his war of words against Iran to the Middle East and runs into some media roadblocks.The Listening Post examines the media’s reaction to his long awaited trip to the Middle East.
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President Barack Obama has decided to send at least 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. He also announced an exit strategy to bring them home by the middle of 2011. Anthony Cordesman discusses President Obama’s decision and what a shift in warfare tactics will look like. And James Bays reports for...
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However, recently Iraq has signed one oil contract and several memoranda of understanding with different energy companies. While these contracts are " service contracts " and not the dreaded " profit sharing agreements " the question is are they legal? With no oil law in place, what will happen ...
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A large-scale bombing in Baghdad has raised questions about whether the U.S. is becoming distracted from its mission in Iraq, and whether the troop withdrawal can go as planned.
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The leak of an informal proposal dubbed the "Danish text" ignites accusations of Western colonialism at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
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