Al Jazeera will not broadcast video it received showing killings in France blamed on Mohammed Merah, it announced Tuesday, saying the material "does not meet our Code of Ethics."
The Assad family's relationship with the media reads like a romance gone sour.
Europeans try a new way to pressure Syria's president by putting sanctions on his wife. CNN's Brian Todd explains.
Syria, which has long accused Arab and Western satellite news networks for fabricating and falsifying events, now has CNN in its sights.
CNN's Richard Quest looks at the strategy behind Doha's investment in bringing sporting events to the region.
Pakistan's prime minister says he has an "extremely capable" lawyer and doesn't believe the country's supreme court will jail him on contempt charges after a Monday hearing.
The special court investigating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri announced Wednesday it will try the four accused killers in absentia.
As violence erupted in Homs, Syria's president turned up at a boisterous pro-government rally in Damascus Wednesday, whipping up his followers and again underscoring his view that the months of popular unrest in his nation are the result of a "conspiracy."
A former member of the Arab League monitoring team in Syria said he resigned from the mission because it is "providing the regime cover for more killing" and "shameful" brutality.
Three American college students detained in Cairo since Monday night were released from police custody Friday and were headed to the airport to return to the United States, an attorney for one of the men said.
China's state-owned broadcaster has launched an aggressive international push to extend the country's influence, opening a new headquarters in Washington that will broadcast English-language programming from the heart of the US capital.
In March, several months before he quit, the Al Jazeera executive looked at the network's reporting of the Arab Spring.
For decades, repressive governments in the Arab world controlled the media, shaping public opinion through propaganda, according to Wadah Khanfar, who headed Al Jazeera until his resignation this week.
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, Attorney General John Ashcroft asserted that criticism of the Bush administration "only aids terrorists" and "gives ammunition to America's enemies." White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer warned that "all Americans ... need to watch what they say, watch what they do." Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told television executives they should not air videos from Osama bin Laden because these could contain coded messages.
Iran's foreign minister says he backs Syria's president but that the embattled Bashar al-Assad must pay heed to his citizenry's demands amid the country's instability, an Iranian news outlet reported on Saturday.
The phone-hacking scandal began two years ago as a lonely newspaper crusade in London, but when Rupert Murdoch testified Tuesday before British lawmakers, the story undeniably took the world by its ear with coverage spanning from Al Jazeera to Brazil to China, media experts said.
Four American journalists were arrested Monday in Egypt while filming anti-government protests at the Suez Canal.
In the post-WikiLeaks era, news organizations and other groups are launching spinoff websites in hopes a catching the next big scoop.
In this excerpt from CNN's documentary "Wikiwars," CNN's Kaj Larsen explores one of the most controversial leaks.
An Al Jazeera reporter who disappeared after landing in the Syrian capital of Damascus last month to cover anti-government protests has been released, the network said early Wednesday.
The fiancé of Dorothy Parvaz, a reporter with the Al Jazeera English network who was detained in Syria nearly two weeks ago, says he is desperate to speak with his future wife, even as conflicting accounts emerge of her whereabouts.
At least three protesters were killed Sunday when security forces and secret police raided the town of Jableh on Syria's western coast and fired at demonstrators without warning, according to an eyewitness and demonstrator.
The mother of a woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel to tell journalists that she had been beaten and raped by troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Monday that her daughter is still being held.
Libyan state TV reported Sunday that the opposition-held town of al-Bregahad been "been cleansed from the criminal gangs and mercenaries, the area is now safe, and all citizens should go back to their work and their normal life."
Libyan government handlers take CNN's Nic Robertson and other journalists on tour of re-captured areas.
An Al-Jazeera cameraman was killed in an apparent ambush near Benghazi, Libya, becoming the first journalist killed in the country since the start of the civil war, the network reported Saturday.
Under pressure from ongoing protests against his government, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged Thursday to bring a new constitution to a vote by the end of the year and transfer government power to an elected parliamentary system.
A sea of Egyptians from all walks of life packed every meter in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday for a "Day of Victory," a rally to celebrate the one-week anniversary of the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat has stepped down from his post, saying he did so because he felt responsible that controversial documents were stolen from his office but not because of how Middle East peace talks have unfolded.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat resigns after documents were reported to have leaked from his office.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down, more than two weeks after the protests that began January 25 in the country -- and launched a flood of #Jan25 and #Egypt tweets as well as media coverage that broke the mold -- to remove the president from power.
Emotional Egyptians explode in deafening cheers on the streets of Cairo as President Hosni Mubarak steps down.
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