22
Jan
105 (or so) positions open at Al Jazeera America.
Is, “Hi, I don’t have a degree and I actually suck at journalism,” a bad way to start off an application?
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22
Jan
Is, “Hi, I don’t have a degree and I actually suck at journalism,” a bad way to start off an application?
16
Apr
Al Jazeera’s Teymoor Nabili talks to Dan Meridor, Israel’s minister of intelligence and atomic energy and deputy prime minister, about this and questions him over Israeli politicians’ claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, said Iran would ‘wipe Israel out’.
Short: Meridor grasps at straws as he’s put on the defensive by facts.
06
Feb
Al Jazeera’s Simon McGregor-Wood: Some would say, given the level of violence, that it isn’t only a Syrian decision; it is an international war crime court’s decision. Would you agree with that?
Qatar’s minister of state for foreign affairs Khalid Al-Attiyah: At the end of the day, killing one person or killing 100 innocent persons is the same. Humanity does not reject this attitude.
SMW: Do you think Assad should stand trial for war crimes?
KAA: I think whomever is involved, whose hands have the blood of Syrians or other innocent people should stand trial.
SMW: Can you imagine circumstances where the Arab League or Qatar would support the active arming of civilians?
KAA: It is not the position of Qatar or the Arab League to supply arms. Our mandate, our clear mandate, is to stop the killing in Syria, put the regime with the opposition at one table, and start a serious dialogue to bring Syria out of this chaos.
05
Feb
“Fighting a war with video cameras:” With few international reporters able to access Homs, activists in the central city have become effective citizen journalists.They are using Skype, Facebook and other internet sources to document what is happening on the ground.
23
Jan
A billion-plus Asians have welcomed the Year of the Dragon with a cacophony of fireworks, hoping the mightiest sign in the Chinese zodiac will usher in the wealth and power it represents. (via Al Jazeera)
Syria rejects the decisions taken which are outside an Arab working plan, and considers them an attack on its national sovereignty and a flagrant interference in internal affairs.
20
Jan
Intense fighting has raged in Somalia’s capital with African Union (AU) peacekeepers encountering fierce resistance from al-Shabab fighters as they pushed to Mogadishu’s outskirts for the first time.
Supported by tanks, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), said on Friday that it had driven the fighters out of the coastal city’s Mogadishu University as well as the Barakaat cemetery, leaving the two sites under government control.
“This is the first time AMISOM has been able to secure an area outside the parameters of the city, allowing them to defend greater Mogadishu from the exterior,” Paddy Ankunda, AMISOM spokesman, said in a statement.
The al-Shabab fighters, who pulled most of their troops out of the capital in August, but still hold pockets of territory
on the northern outskirts, acknowledged losing ground, but said they had trapped the advancing force.
(via Al Jazeera)
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