Mosaic News - 05/02/11: World News From The Middle East

May 03, 2011 from Mosaic

In this episode of Mosaic: Yemen's Saleh refuses to sign Gulf-brokered transition deal, Libyan revolutionaries slam NATO air strikes, Arab world reacts to bin Laden's killing, and more.

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Arab world

Lumea arabă face referire la țările vorbitoare de dialecte ale limbii arabe, care se întind de la Oceanul Atlantic în vest, de la Marea Arabiei în est și de la Marea Mediterană în nord la Cornul Africii și de la Oceanul Indian în sud-est. Este alcătuită din 25 de țări și terit... Explore this topic

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a ... Explore this topic

Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaida ist ein loses, weltweit operierendes Terrornetzwerk meist sunnitischer dschihadistischer Organisationen, das seit 1993 zahlreiche Terroranschläge in mehreren Staaten verübt hat, und mit zahlreichen weltpolitischen Ereignissen im Zusammenhang steht. Viele der von dem N... Explore this topic

Death of Osama bin Laden

On May 1, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized a raid on bin Laden's suspected location in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The operation was successfully carried out by United States Navy SEALs, with intelligence support from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[2][7] During t... Explore this topic

Gaza

The Gaza Strip is a territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east and north. It is 41 kilometres long, and from 6 to 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of 365 square kilometres. The population of Gaza Stri... Explore this topic

Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories or occupied Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 1993, following the Oslo Accords, parts of the territories politically came under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority. In 2007, the Hamas-ruled Gaza... Explore this topic

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Qur'an—which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad—and, with lesser authority than the Qur'an, the teachings and practices of Muhammad as ... Explore this topic

Arab people

Arab people, also known as Arabs, are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal r... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States, or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capi... Explore this topic

Mosaic: World News from the Middle East

Mosaic is a daily news program that features selections from news programs produced by national broadcasters throughout the Middle East. The news reports are presented unedited and translated, when necessary, into English. Some of the broadcasters are state controlled and othe... Explore this topic

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