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By D. Parvaz in Middle East on October 4th, 2011
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Amnesty International has just released a report on how Syrian security forces are targeting expat Syrians who have spoken out against the Syrian government, in hopes of silencing them.

The report, titled "Mukhabaraat: Violence and harassment against Syrians abroad and their relatives back home" details just how far reaching the tentacles of the regime are.

Even the parents of expat activists aren't spared. The report details how the parents of one activist [his father is 73 years old, his mother 66] were beaten, left bloody and bruised in Homs because he attended a pro-reform demonstration in front of the White House.

The rights group details the Mukhabarat's activities in North America, Europe and Latin America, documenting over 30 cases of expats being targeted by Syrian security forces, who employ surveillance and open threats in an effort to maintain control over anti-government activists living overseas:

By John Terrett in Americas on September 15th, 2011
Top level politicians, historians and civic leaders gathered in Washington DC on Wednesday to honour an African American woman who helped lead thousands of U.S. slaves to freedom in the nineteenth century.
 
Harriet Tubman was known as the conductor of the Underground Railroad along which escaping slaves were passed to freedom via a network of sympathetic people and safe houses.
 
The Washington meeting was aimed at setting-up at least two U.S. national historical parks in memory of Tubman.
 
By John Terrett in Americas on June 30th, 2011

A type of Caviar - or fish eggs - that's been off the market for approximately one hundred years is making a comeback in Canada.

A small aqua-farm near St John in the northeastern province of New Brunswick has spent the past 15 years breeding the Shortnose Breviro Sturgeon which was virtually wiped out by over-fishing around the turn of the last century.

Now it is the only place in the world licensed to sell the caviar and the delicacy - a staple of cruise lines and high-class restaurants - is set for export round the world.

Each Shortnose Breviro Sturgeon is worth thousands of dollars.

"This paunchiness, that's an indication that it's full of eggs!"

That's Bill Hogans, head of research at Breviro Caviar, the company behind the Shortnose's comeback.

In the past 15 years Bill and his team have spent countless hours helping the breed flourish again in captivity.

By John Terrett in Americas on June 28th, 2011
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For the first time this weekend the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards were held in North America.

The city of Toronto in Canada had been gearing up for weeks to host the event.

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on February 6th, 2011
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From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo and Alexandria.  Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - Feb1 - Feb2 - Feb3 - Feb4 - Feb5 - Feb6The Battle for Egypt - AJE Live Stream - Timeline - Photo Gallery - AJE Tweets - AJE Audio Blogs

(All times are local in Egypt, GMT+2)

10:07pm  Wael Ghonim, head of Google's Middle East operations, has been released by Egyptian security forces. He spoke to Egyptian On TV about his ordeal.

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First of all my sincere condolences for all the Egyptians that lost their lives. I am really sorry for their loss, none of us wanted this. We were not destroying things.

We all wanted peaceful protests, and our slogan was 'no to vandalism'.

Please don't turn me into a hero' I am not a hero, I am someone that was asleep for 12 days.

The real heroes are the ones that took to the streets, please focus your cameras on the right people.

I am ok. God willing we will change our country, and all the filth that was taking place in the country has to stop. Together we will clean this country," he said.


9:33pm Al Jazeera's Gregg Carlstrom reports on how the people of Egypt found community amid Egypt's chaos.
United against their president, demonstrators in Tahrir Square have managed to bridge the country's political divides. 
Despite the difficult conditions, protesters find ways to express themselves, a protestor holds a sign that reads: "leave already [Mubarak], I just got married and i miss my wife!"


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8:44pm Ahmad Nagib, one of the organisers of the protests in Tahrir Square told Al Jazeera: "We are not scared of being martyred, but we don't want to be shot at the back by state security."

We will continue to protest in Tahrir Square until he [Mubarak] steps down. It is safer for us to camp out here in the open, some of our friends that left the Square were kidnapped and tortured inside the museum by state security.

We are still resilient and we will carry on, real democracy can only be achieved by involving all of us in any talks, but any talks will happen after Mubarak leaves. Our voices have not been represented, and we call for the Egyptian state TV to be prosecuted for playing an instrumental part in inciting hatred towards us and encouraging the 'baltageya' thugs to attack us.

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By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on February 5th, 2011

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From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo and Alexandria.  Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - 

By Camille Elhassani in Americas on February 5th, 2011
Photo by Reuters

US president Barack Obama took questions from the press for the first time since the crisis in Egypt began 11 days ago.  

Of the two pre-selected journalists, only one asked Obama about Egypt. In his response, the president didn't go much beyond his comments from earlier in the week.  

Obama reiterated his administration's position that the future of Egypt should be determined by Egyptians.

By John Terrett in Americas on December 25th, 2010
Photo by Taran Rampersad

 

While the populations of most developing nations are rising rapidly, the same cannot be said for the northern South American country of Guyana.

It is rising slightly but for many years has been in serious decline.

The brain drain in this poor nation has been going on for many years as people emigrate to America, Canada and Britain in search of a better life.

I went to a small first floor apartment in the capital Georgetown to meet a couple on the eve of their departure for New York plus the country's President who wishes more of his fellow countrymen would return home for good.

"We're excited that we're leaving," Affia McKenzie told me.

She and husband Richard are preparing for the trip of their lives.  They're taking their ten month old daughter Sasha to live with his parents in America.

"I would want to have just about everything, every necessity of life, which includes my own vehicles, my own house, a good job."

By Gregg Carlstrom in Middle East on May 31st, 2010
Protesters in Istanbul wave Palestinian flags after the raid (Photo: AFP)

Early Monday morning, Israel attacked a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip; up to 10 people were killed in the pre-dawn raid, according to organisers and media sources.

We'll be live-blogging the aftermath of this incident throughout the day; keep checking back for international reaction, news from our correspondents on the ground, photos and video. (All times are GMT, except where noted.)

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By Steve Chao in Americas on April 16th, 2010
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There was a time when Russell Atagootak would first look to the sky as he prepared to hunt seal.

"The clouds told us the weather," he says, "then we would know if it was a good day to hunt." 

Forecasting the weather through cloud formations was once a reliable Inuit tradition, passed down through generations. 

"It was elders in my community that first noticed the clouds were changing," says the 23-year-old hunter and guide.

"The patterns were no longer the same … they became more and more unpredictable. Now they're impossible to read."

About 10km out into the bay from his town of Resolute are other reminders of how the Arctic environment is fast changing. Fields of broken ice stretch as far as the eye can see, and beyond is open water. Not long ago, Inuit and their dog sled teams could count on smooth ice to roam and hunt. 

Not any longer.

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