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By Teymoor Nabili in Europe on May 31st, 2011
According to The Guardian, a record amount of carbon dioxide poured into the atmosphere last year, meaning hopes of limiting global temperature...
By Camille Elhassani in Americas on May 31st, 2011
Over the course of the next few months, Barack Obama will have replaced much of the defence leadership of the US in anticipation of watershed...
By Sherine Tadros in Middle East on May 29th, 2011
The image of Palestinians crossing Rafah on Saturday was heart warming. Not only did it signal the release of Gazans from their mental and...
By Monica Villamizar in Middle East on May 26th, 2011
Political "street art" in Egypt has proven to be dangerous, only hours ago Mohammed Fahmy @ganzeer was arrested, apparently in connection with...
By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on May 26th, 2011
As the Yemen uprising escalates into a possible civil war, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and...
By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on May 26th, 2011
The family home of Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva is a simple, modest 3 bedroom brick building on a dusty side road in Maraba Brazil. It is...
By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on May 25th, 2011
I was presenting the news on Al Jazeera English on Tuesday, as Binyamin Netanyahu was speaking to the US congress in Washington, DC.We carried...
By Patty Culhane in Americas on May 25th, 2011
It always amazes me how much life is disrupted for any city that hosts a sitting US president. In the times I have been part of the TV pool -...
By Melissa Chan in Asia on May 25th, 2011
A recent survey by the Foreign Correspondents Club of China had some discouraging numbers about reporting conditions in the country.  ...
By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on May 25th, 2011
Thousands continue to take to the streets across Syria, despite reform pledges by President Bashar al-Assad. Activists say hundreds have been...
By Teymoor Nabili in Europe on May 24th, 2011
The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman once remarked:If [George W.] Bush said that the world was flat, the headline on the news analysis...
By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on May 24th, 2011
Journalists have long known that alternative opinions are not welcome at AIPAC meetings, but this heckler must have been surprised by the number...
By Alan Fisher in Middle East on May 23rd, 2011
Amer El Shaer struggles to fill his days. He's cleaned his shop several times. He's sorted his stock and reorganised his shelves. And...
By Teymoor Nabili in Europe on May 23rd, 2011
The Guardian reports on the release of "A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth," the result of an enquiry commissioned by UK...
By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on May 23rd, 2011
Just before President Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday,
By Paul Rhys in Europe on May 22nd, 2011
Earlier today I was planning on writing this as a eulogy to my team, Wigan Athletic – or at least a eulogy to their six-season stay in the...
By Alan Fisher in Middle East on May 22nd, 2011
On a sun baked hill in a quiet corner of noisy Alexandria, Khaled Said's grave is unremarkable. Perhaps the flowers on top are more watered than...
By Teymoor Nabili in Middle East on May 21st, 2011
Is time running out for Israel's best friend in the White House?Dennis Ross has been described as Israel's advocate, more extreme than Binyamin...