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By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on April 17th, 2011
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the...
By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on April 16th, 2011
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the...
By D. Parvaz in Middle East on April 16th, 2011
There are reports of violence in the western city of Ahvaz in Iran's Khuzestan province, where according to the Human Rights Activists News...
By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on April 15th, 2011
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the...
By Evan Hill in Africa on April 15th, 2011
Down the dusty, bumpy road from Tobruk, along which every few miles upended chairs and thick ropes strung across the pavement stand as mute...
By Nicole Johnston in Middle East on April 15th, 2011
There is a packet of pipe tobacco sitting in my Gaza City apartment. It's Victor's. He left it behind the last time I saw him, about one month...
By Barnaby Phillips in Africa on April 15th, 2011
No Nigerian president has ever been removed from office in an election. This, sadly, does not mean that Nigeria has been blessed with unusually...
By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on April 15th, 2011
 As the unrest  in the Middle East continues, we update you with the latest developments from across the region.Read on for the latest...
By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on April 14th, 2011
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the...
By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on April 13th, 2011
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the...
By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on April 13th, 2011
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the...
By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on April 12th, 2011
In the industrial outskirts of Sao Paulo, workers at Bandeiras Sukets, a small flag-making factory, are hunched over sewing machines. With great...
By Camille Elhassani in Americas on April 12th, 2011
Last Friday, just before the midnight deadline to avoid a partial shutdown of the US government, Democrats and Republicans declared victory....
By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on April 12th, 2011
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the...
By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on April 11th, 2011
After a school shooting, there are usually three distinct phases: First the immediate shock of how anybody could do such a thing, followed by...
By Kristen Saloomey in Americas on April 11th, 2011
Being sceptical is part of being a journalist. Especially at the United Nations, where every action - and every failure to act - is...
By John Terrett in Americas on April 11th, 2011
The 38th International Whistlers Convention has been taking place in the tiny town of Louisburg, North Carolina. Whistlers from all over the...
By Step Vaessen in Asia on April 11th, 2011
It took only two and half minute, but it was enough for him to lose his job, seriously embarrass Indonesia's largest Islamic party, make a fool...