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Doha, 10th February 2015 - Lt. General Asad Durrani (retd), the former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency, has told Al Jazeera’s Head to Head that Pakistan most likely sheltered Osama Bin Laden in the years leading up to the US raid in Abbottabad in May 2011. He doubts
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In his first interview since being freed from an Egypt jail after 400 days in captivity, Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste called on the Egyptian authorities to release two of his colleagues still being held: Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy. "I feel incredible angst about my colleagues, leaving them
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Al Jazeera has said that the campaign to free its journalists in Egypt will not end till all three have been released. Peter Greste is on his way out of the country after 400 days in detention, but Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy remain behind bars. The network says that
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Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb travelled to the remote hills in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo and spoke with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the Rwandan rebel fighters who have been based there for more than 20 years. The Congolese Government and
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Al Jazeera condemns the death threat received by Saeed Thabit, Al Jazeera Arabic bureau chief in Sanaa, Yemen, in an anonymous phone call that threatened him with “physical elimination.” “This threat is not the first,” Thabit commented. The caller referred to himself as a member of Ansar Allah, also known
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Doha, January 15, 2015: Al Jazeera condemns the death threat received by Saeed Thabit, Al Jazeera Arabic Bureau Chief in Sanaa, Yemen, in an anonymous phone call that threatened him with “physical elimination”. “This threat is not the first,” Thabit commented “The caller was somebody who referred to himself as
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Al Jazeera has said that the retrial granted today to its jailed journalists should be expedited quickly by the Egyptian authorities. Lawyers say that the appeal process from this point can take another 12-18 months. After the conviction was overruled by the court of cassation today, Al Jazeera spokesperson
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Doha – December 28, 2014: Al Jazeera Arabic is the first Arab news channel to reach ten million followers on Facebook. The channel says that alongside its continued status as the most-watched Arab channel on TV, the Facebook milestone exemplifies Al Jazeera’s determination to be the number one pan-
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29 December 2014 marks one year since Al Jazeera's Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested in Cairo. Journalists and friends around the world will come together to show their solidarity with the three journalists on that day. Newsrooms across the world will stop work at
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Journalist Mehdi Hasan is to host a new programme on global broadcaster Al Jazeera English. He joins the channel full-time for the weekly show, which will broadcast from Washington DC. Kicking off in 2015, it means he will move to the US from London. Hasan will go behind the
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“Targeting journalists and its crew will not deter us from reporting the truth” - Al Jazeera DG