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How did a free Arab news network scoop the world and change the Middle East? This book chronicles the development and success of Al-Jazeera.

A multi award winning documentary about news gathering in the middle east during the 2003 invasion of Iraq -based on relations between Al-Jazeera and the US Media.

In a new series of articles on Al Jazeera.net a development economist is suggesting that the USA is behaving like a developing country of the worse kind.

On Monday, February 16, 2009; the government of Pakistan agreed to allow the implementation of pure Islamic law in a northwestern province that borders Afghanistan.

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Advocacy groups are heading to Africa to offer education and to aid government intervention on a recent series of brutal murders of persons with albinism in Tanzania.

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Canadian Author Laurence Hill scores another literary prize in his tale of slavery and freedom.

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International News Reporting is a compilation of essays from leading reporters edited by John Owen and Heather Purdey.

After days of bombardment Pakistani troops have captured the key Taliban town of Kotkai in South Waziristan.

With war in Georgia & divergent world opinions; America & the West forgot about rebuffing Russia's UN request for a nonviolent solution to the South Ossetia problem.

On December 27 2008, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a large-scale offensive against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. It was a predictable end to an uneasy truce.

Author David Randall taps into his thirty years of experience to present common sense journalism in a well organized and easily referenced guide.

Compassion Fatigue is an ambitious analysis of the how the media sells disease, famine, death, and war in the last two decades of the twentieth century.

Ivory Coast also known as Cote d'Ivoire, accounts for 40% of world's cocoa production. The region, torn by a civil war, uses cocoa profits to fund armed conflicts.

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Mercenaries have been used since the dawn of ancient civilizations but have taken on new significance in the war against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan.

US private military contractor Blackwater is said to be at the heart of Pakistan's ongoing war. The target it seems may not be the Taliban but Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.