Pan-Arab news network Al Jazeera said Tuesday it had closed its English-language bureau in China after authorities refused to renew its reporter's visa, marking the first time China had effectively expelled an accredited journalist in over a decade.
Doha does a lot more than spend it on Beckham. But even with its savvy blend of diplomacy and activism, is the tiny Gulf emirate suddenly overstretched by the Arab Spring?
Doha does a lot more than spend it on Beckham. But even with its savvy blend of diplomacy and activism, is the tiny Gulf emirate suddenly overstretched by the Arab Spring?
The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday banned Al-Jazeera television from operating in its territory for claiming that Qadoumi as saying Abbas conspired with Israel to kill his predecessor Yasser Arafat in 2003.
After six years in the US military prison Guantanamo, Sudanese cameraman Sami al-Haj has been released and sent home. The Al-Jazeera cameraman had been held without charge after being arrested in Dec. 2001 near the Afghan border.
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