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Lebanon's economic crisis will be on voters' minds during parliamentary elections

4:40pm May 13, 2022

by Arezou Rezvani

Lebanon is holding parliamentary elections against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis. Here's a look at what's at stake for those in power and the candidates trying to replace them.

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Israeli police in riot gear confront mourners and the journalists on Friday covering the transfer from the hospital of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to her final resting place in east Jerusalem. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American re

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Israeli police beat mourners at a slain Al Jazeera journalist's funeral

11:31am May 13, 2022

by The Associated Press

Dozens of people tried to march the casket of Shireen Abu Akleh from a hospital to a nearby Catholic church, but Israeli police hit them with batons, causing pallbearers to briefly drop the casket.

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 2007.

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Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, the UAE's long-ailing leader, has died

8:14am May 13, 2022

by The Associated Press

The United Arab Emirates' long-ailing ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, died Friday, the government's state-run news agency announced in a brief statement. He was 73.

Amid an economic meltdown, Lebanon will hold parliamentary elections

5:08am May 13, 2022

by Arezou Rezvani

An unabated economic crisis in Lebanon is crushing the middle class. A look at how people there are coping ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections.

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Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in West Bank

6:12pm May 11, 2022

by Daniel Estrin

A prominent Palestinian-American journalist was killed in the West Bank and her network blames Israeli forces. Israel says it's possible Palestinian gunmen shot her, but says it will investigate.

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Women watch an Al Jazeera obituary report on TV at the family home of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem on Wednesday, after she was killed as she covered an Israeli ar

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Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while reporting on an Israeli raid

1:31pm May 11, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American, had been covering a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp "when she was shot in the face by a single bullet, despite wearing a press vest," Al Jazeera said.

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A Palestinian American journalist for Al Jazeera is killed in the West Bank

6:34am May 11, 2022

Veteran journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed during an Israeli arrest raid on a Palestinian refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The U.S. Embassy is calling for an investigation.

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A climate expert raises concern over severe sand storms in Iraq

4:28pm May 10, 2022

Over 5,000 Iraqis needed medical care after the country was hit by a severe sand storm. Such storms are not uncommon there, but their increasing frequency and severity has climate experts concerned.

A globe, centered on Ukraine with ripples emanating outwardsÂ around the world.

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The ripple effects of Russia's war in Ukraine are changing the world

5:01am May 10, 2022

Stores running out of cooking oil. Gas prices soaring. Farmers scrambling for fertilizer. Nations rethinking alliances. We zoom in on the war's seismic, far-reaching repercussions.

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Middle East expert weighs in on string of prison releases in Egypt

5:05pm May 06, 2022

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Mirette Mabrouk, founding director of the Egypt program at the Middle East Institute, about the recent string of political prisoner releases in Egypt.