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Al-Jazeera America network shuts down on Tuesday
Edit The Hindu 12 Apr 2016
Al-Jazeera America, which couldn’t attract an audience to another cable news network in the United States, signs off on Tuesday tonight following a three-hour live farewell designed to highlight its work since a 2013 launch. The farewell begins at 6 pm (local time) and will be repeated immediately before Al-Jazeera America goes dark ... The Al-Jazeera name had also proven an impediment for some viewers at a time when the U.S....
Al-Jazeera America Prepares Farewell Broadcast
Edit National Public Radio 12 Apr 2016
Al-Jazeera America, the U.S ... David says that "after an earlier channel called Al-Jazeera English failed to make a dent in the U.S., Al-Jazeera America was built on the acquisition of a liberal cable network called Current." ... Al-Jazeera executives also promised the channel would not distribute its shows online, which meant that much of its content never became available digitally....
Al-Jazeera America network shuts down
Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 12 Apr 2016
New York • Al-Jazeera America, which couldn’t attract an audience to another cable news network in the United States, signs off Tuesday night following a three-hour live farewell designed to highlight its work since a 2013 launch. The farewell begins at 6 p.m. EDT and will be repeated immediately before Al-Jazeera America goes dark ... The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network announced in January that it was shutt... ....
Bashir Operation Fails; 230 Killed in Iraq
Edit Antiwar 12 Apr 2016
Parliament appears unlikely to approve Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s picks for a new technocrat cabinet and, instead, the prominent blocs will nominate their own candidates. Three members of parliament who are loyal to Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resigned in protest ... Eleven militants were killed and 12 were wounded in Albu Shejil, Garma, and Nazim al–Taqsim ... Three suicide bombers were killed in Amiriyat al-Falluja....
Syrian army sends reinforcements to Aleppo
Edit Indian Express 12 Apr 2016
Pointing to the frayed state of the truce, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is visiting Damascus, that Turkey and Saudi Arabia were behind violations of the deal ... The two nations have backed the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, providing insurgents with arms and money....
Chief cleric al-Sheikh says allowing Saudi women to drive would expose them to evil
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 12 Apr 2016
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh said men "obsessed with women" and with "weak spirits" could end up causing female drivers harm and that male relatives would not know their whereabouts ... Last year, Loujain al-Hathloul was jailed for 10 weeks after ......
Officials Make Unexpected Discovery In 7-Month-Old Girl's Hospital Room
Edit Opposing Views 12 Apr 2016
A mother was discovered dead in her 7-month-old daughter's hospital room on the morning of Jan ... Cincinnati Police Lt. Stephen Saunders said Mary Ann was found dead in her daughter's hospital room at around 11 a.m., AL.com reports. WXIX reports she was found with a syringe in her arm ... 8, according to AL.com ... Sources. AL.com, WXIX / Photo credit....
Turkey welcomes Salman with hotel, 500 Mercedes, and a loo
Edit Press TV 12 Apr 2016
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has arrived in Ankara at the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan....
Commuters run into delays along Sheikh Zayed Road
Edit The National 12 Apr 2016
Those heading from Sharjah to Dubai were also running into heavy traffic with heavy congestion reported near the Al Furjan villas roundabout on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road. Drivers on the E88 Al ......
Sudan’s Darfur votes in referendum on political future
Edit Press TV 12 Apr 2016
Despite ongoing unrest in the region, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has insisted that voting continue on whether to unite Darfur's five states or maintain the status quo ... "Each state in Darfur wants to have its own identity and be in contact with the center without a middle party," said Ahmed al-Dirdiry, the deputy chairman of the referendum committee....
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