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AL JAZEERA

A closure order on the door to the Ramallah Al Jazeera office in the West Bank after the Israeli raid on Sunday
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2024
Israel forces raid Al Jazeera TV in West Bank and order 45-day closure
The Israeli parliament passed a law in early April allowing the banning of foreign media broadcasts deemed harmful to state security.
A man maneuvers media equipment following an Israeli police raid on an Al Jazeera de facto office at the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem on Sunday.
WORLD
May 6, 2024
Israel raids Al Jazeera’s offices after banning broadcaster
Al Jazeera’s broadcasts and access to its website are now blocked throughout Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has a long-running feud with Qatar-based channel Al Jazeera.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 2, 2024
Israel's Netanyahu vows to ban Al Jazeera broadcasts
The Qatar-based broadcaster slammed the ban as "part of a series of systematic Israeli attacks to silence Al Jazeera."
Japan Times
WORLD
May 12, 2022
Al-Jazeera journalist killed during Israeli raid in West Bank
Veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was wearing a press vest that clearly marked her as 'Press' while reporting in the city of Jenin.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 2, 2019
U.S. intel veterans helped UAE spy on Al Jazeera boss and BBC host during row with Qatar, says report
A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host, the chairman of Al Jazeera and other prominent Arab media figures during a tense 2017 confrontation pitting the UAE and its allies against the Gulf state of Qatar.
WORLD
Jun 1, 2016
Islamic State tells Muslims to trash satellite TVs whose channels are 'polluting their ethics'
Islamic State on Tuesday urged Muslims to destroy their satellite TV sets to prevent hostile channels "destroying their beliefs and polluting their ethics.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 9, 2015
Egypt sets Feb. 12 retrial date for jailed Al-Jazeera journalists
The retrial of two Al-Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt will start on Feb. 12, the lawyer for one of the defendants said on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 25, 2014
Kidnappers free U.S. journalist missing in Syria since 2012
Kidnappers in Syria have freed a U.S. journalist missing since 2012, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday, following what Qatari-owned Al Jazeera said were efforts by the Gulf Arab state to win his release.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2013
Bad week for a hateful televangelist
The week of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's ouster was also a bad one for the Al Jazeera television network and a hateful Sunni televangelist.

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