Al Jazeera English
| Mar 13, 2013
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is now Francis, the first Latin American pope. Al Jazeera profiles the man who started out as a chemist in Argentina, where his fans say he did much to restore the Catholic church's reputation after its silence during the cou...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 13, 2013
Tunisian lawmakers have approved a new government after weeks of deadlock but it may do little to ease the country's problems. The swearing-in was overshadowed by the death of a street vendor who set himself on fire in a protest that echoed the ev...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 13, 2013
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is demanding that Italy send two marines back to his country to face trial. They are accused of killing two Indian fishermen in February last year. The marines were being held in India but were allowed to retu...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 13, 2013
The Vatican's Sistine Chapel chimney has released white smoke and church bells rang indicating that a new leader of the 1.2bn Catholic Church has been elected after the second day of secret deliberations.
Thousands of people gathered at the rain-...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 11, 2013
Detroit is thisclose to declaring bankrupty, meaning that it will be taken over by the state, which will likely squeeze residents further with major new austerity cuts. Motown is more than $14 billion in debt after close to half its population fle...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 11, 2013
How can Kenya's new president Uhuru Kenyatta govern while facing trial for crime against humanity in the Hague? Discussing with Jane Dutton are guests Muthoni Wanyeki, former executive director of the Kenyan Human Rights Commission; Jendayi Fraze...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 11, 2013
North Korea's state media says the country has scrapped the armistice agreement which effectively ended the war with the South in the 1950s.
The statement came as Seoul and the US launched joint military exercises involving thousands of troops...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 10, 2013
Final preparations are being made at the Vatican for the election of a new Catholic pope. And as Roman Catholics keep a close eye on the ballot, the church's place in today's society is also under scrutiny. So too is its relationship with th...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 10, 2013
Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, forests that cover 70 percent of the Fukushima Prefecture have been found to contain high concentrations of radioactive c...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 9, 2013
Venezuela will hold a presidential election on April 14, the country's electoral commission has announced. The council's announcement on Saturday came a day after Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's handpicked successor, was sworn in as acting president in a...
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...YORK â Further popularized and legitimized by the Arab Spring, al-Jazeera English has incrementally expanded its presence in the U.S. televisi...
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The 9/11 Decade (3 x 60′) – Documentary series that explores how the world has been influenced and affected by al-Qaeda, exploring issues such as p...
Al Jazeera English is an international 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It is the sister channel of the Arabic-language Al Jazeera.
The station broadcasts news features and analysis, documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology and sports. The station claims to be the first global high-definition television network.
Al Jazeera English is the world's first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East. The channel aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview. Instead of being run under central command, news management rotates around broadcasting centers in Doha and London. Complete news bulletins from Kuala Lumpur stopped on 30 September 2010 and from Washington, D.C. on 28 January 2011. These have been replaced by news from Doha, with news inserts from Kuala Lumpur ending in early 2011 and Washington D.C on 15 April 2012. Al Jazeera English is one of the few foreign media outlets to have agencies in Gaza and Harare.
The network's stated objective is "to give voice to untold stories, promote debate, and challenge established perceptions."
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