Saudi billionaire prince to launch Arab news channel

Last Updated: Monday, December 15, 2014, 20:31

Saudi billionaire businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is to launch an Arab satellite news channel on February 1, vowing to "break the mould" in a crowded field.

Egypt to put Al Jazeera journalists on trial: Prosecutor

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:23

Egypt will put an Australian, two Britons and a Dutchwoman on trial for aiding 16 Egyptians belonging to a "terrorist organisation", the public prosecutor said on Wednesday, describing the four as Al Jazeera correspondents.

Egypt vows `full force` against defiant Brotherhood

Last Updated: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 00:15

Egypt vowed on Saturday to confront the Muslim Brotherhood with "full force" as the Islamists called for further rallies, a day after clashes between protesters and police killed at least 17 people.

Al Shabab suicide attack on Mogadishu hotel in Somalia kills 11

Last Updated: Thursday, January 2, 2014, 09:32

Al Shabab has been branded as a banned terrorist outfit by both the US and the UK but still has under its control some rural areas of the country where it has imposed Sharia law.

Egypt arrests Al-Jazeera journalists

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 09:11

Egyptian secret police have arrested an award-winning Australian journalist and an Egyptian reporter for the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera channel suspected of illegally broadcasting news harming "domestic security," the interior ministry said.

Egypt prosecutors interrogate Jazeera team

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 01:52

Egyptian state security prosecutors interrogated a team of journalists working for Al-Jazeera`s English channel on Monday a day after they were arrested in Cairo, a security official said today.

Al Jazeera says three journalists held in Egypt after hotel broadcast

Last Updated: Monday, December 30, 2013, 14:57

Egypt is pushing through a political transition that could lead to presidential and parliamentary elections next year.

Egyptian forces raid Al-Jazeera office in Cairo

Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 17:47

Egyptian security forces late Wednesday raided the Cairo office of Qatar`s Al-Jazeera TV, arresting 11 Qatari citizens including four officials, it was reported Thursday.

Fire breaks out in Cairo office: Al-Jazeera

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 11:49

Al-Jazeera has said a fire broke out in the network`s office in the Egyptian capital, destroying cameras and other equipment.

Kerala’s Jazeera takes her struggle against sand mafia to Delhi

Last Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 13:13

With her two-month-long dharna outside the state secretariat agianst sand mafia failing to yield results, 31-year-old mother of three minor children Jazeera has now shifted her struggle to the national capital.

Al Jazeera America bans F-bomb words in newsroom

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 13:21

Al Jazeera America news chiefs have declared a fatwa against using the F-bomb in the newsroom .

Students offer support to woman fighting against sand mafia

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 15:40

Students of various colleges here have expressed solidarity with a woman, who has been staging a sit-in with her three children in front of the Secretariat here for the last two months seeking action against the sand mafia and mining.