Articles by Aljazeera.net
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GALLUP PAKISTAN SURVEY: STATE OF THE NATION
Aljazeera.net,
9 Aug 2009
An exclusive Al Jazeera survey of public opinion in Pakistan has revealed widespread disenchantment with the United States for interfering with what most people consider internal Pakistani affairs. Gallup Pakistan, an affiliate of the Gallup International polling group, carried out the survey. The field work was done among more than 2,500 men and women across […]
→ read full articleKENYA FUELS ITS FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY
Aljazeera.net,
16 Feb 2009
Kenya is promoting the harvesting of the jatropha tree, a source of biofuel that can be used to power anything from aircrafts to cookers, as a way out of poverty for many of the country’s poor. 2:44-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW
→ read full articleKYRGYZ CLOSURE OF U.S. BASE ‘FINAL’
Aljazeera.net,
6 Feb 2009
Krygystan’s government has said it will not go back on its decision to close US air base on its territory, despite Washington insisting that talks over the facility are continuing. The Manas base in the former Soviet republic is used to supply US troops fighting in Afghanistan. "The decision has been made," Aibek Sultangaziyev, a […]
→ read full article“WSF HAD A PROPHETIC VOICE”
Aljazeera.net,
1 Feb 2009
Walden Bello has attended every World Social Forum. He is a senior analyst at Focus on Global South, president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition and a professor at the University of the Philippines. As the WSF was winding down in Belem in Brazil, Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo spoke with Bello about his thoughts on […]
→ read full articleISRAEL BLOCKS ‘SIEGE-BUSTING’ SHIP
Aljazeera.net – Sun Dec 7/08,
7 Dec 2008
Special security forces have been deployed in and around Jaffa’s streets and port in order to stop a ship carrying medical and food supplies reaching Gaza. Elias Karram, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Jaffa, said on Sunday that the ship had been prevented from docking at the small city port where it was due to pick […]
→ read full articleUS CHARITY GUILTY OF FUNDING HAMAS
Aljazeera.net,
25 Nov 2008
A US court has convicted a Muslim charity and five of its former leaders of all 108 charges in the largest "terrorism" financing trial in US history. The Texas jury reached its verdict on Monday [24 Nov.] after eight days of deliberations over whether the former Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, once the […]
→ read full articleCHAGOS ISLANDERS DEALT COURT BLOW
Aljazeera.net,
22 Oct 2008
The British government has won its appeal over court rulings that allowed displaced Chagos Islands inhabitants to return to their homes in the Indian Ocean archipelago. The decision by the House of Lords, the UK’s upper house of parliament, on Wednesday, overturns earlier rulings that said the method used to block the return of the […]
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