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Al Jazeera English

🇶🇦QA · TV/radio · state-funded international · aljazeera.com
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An estimate, not a score.
Founded2006-11-15 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us
HeadquartersDoha, Qatar no source on file
FundingThe outlet's own About page states Al Jazeera is 'an independent news organisation funded in part by the Qatari government.'
ReachStates it has over 70 bureaus worldwide, 3,000+ employees from 95+ countries, and reaches over 150 countries and territories in approximately 430 million homes.
In its own wordsDescribes itself as: "Code of ethics states journalists must 'adhere to the journalistic values of honesty, courage, fairness, balance, independence, credibility and diversity, giving no priority to commercial or political over professional consideration' and commits to presenting 'diverse points of view and opinions without bias and partiality.'."
Identity Wikipedia
Bias we have measured in their reporting
Accusation attributed
Cuba's charge is attributed to its foreign minister, not stated as fact — in 1 article
Actor named
The headline names Israel as the actor and gives a count of three that includes a child. — in 1 article
Agency
No actor is named for the detentions. The raids, not the soldiers, 'left' the town in lockdown — in 1 article
Agency
Names Israel as the actor in the headline, in active voice — in 1 article
From 4973 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 2 misleading9 disputed33 unverified16 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

HolderTypeStakeControlInstrumentSinceSource
Al Jazeera Media Network trust/foundation not disclosed yesfoundation — link
Government of Qatar ⚠ contested state body not disclosed —state funding — link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Al Jazeera Media Network
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al Jazeera Media Network since its founding board in 1996; also heads Qatar Media Corporation.
Issa Ali
Managing Director, Al Jazeera English
Managing Director of the Al Jazeera English channel within Al Jazeera Media Network.
Nasser bin Faisal Al Thani
Director General, Al Jazeera Media Network
Appointed Director General of Al Jazeera Media Network effective 1 September 2025; previously held roles at Barwa Real Estate and Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Journalists

Maziar Motamedi
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Stephen Quillen
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Abdullah Elshamy
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Mariamne Everett
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Adrian Finighan
Principal News & Programmes Presenter, Al Jazeera English · news presenting
Principal presenter fronting Newshour, Inside Story and Counting the Cost on Al Jazeera English since 2010.
Folly Bah Thibault
Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English · current affairs
Senior presenter for Al Jazeera English since 2010.
Josh Rushing
Senior Correspondent, Al Jazeera English (Fault Lines) · documentary · US affairs
Senior correspondent for the documentary series Fault Lines on Al Jazeera English; former US Marine Corps officer.
Marc Lamont Hill
Presenter, Al Jazeera English (host, UpFront) · current affairs · interviews
Hosts UpFront on Al Jazeera English; also an academic and author.
Steven Clemons
Presenter, Al Jazeera English (host, The Bottom Line) · US politics · foreign policy
Hosts The Bottom Line on Al Jazeera English; also Editor at Large at Semafor.
Mansur Mirovalev
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Ali Mustafa
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Yashraj Sharma
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Daniel Khalili-Tari
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Barbara Angopa
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Nour Abo Aisha
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Mohammad Mansour
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Usaid Siddiqui
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Graham Keeley
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John Power
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Emma Withrow
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Andy Hirschfeld
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Nick Clark
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Fatima Mahmoud
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Justin Salhani
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Ola Marshoud
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Tracy J. Jawad
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Faisal Aziz Khan
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Leila Warah
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Natasa Kovacev
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Armin Aljovic
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Mohammed Haddad
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Faisal Mahmud
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Marium Ali
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Priyanka Shankar
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Ibrahim Sofic
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Sir Geoffrey Nice
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Umut Uras
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Yasmeen Eltahan
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Imran Khalid
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Nils Adler
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Evan Semones
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Urooba Jamal
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Kevin Hand
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Sarah Shamim
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Chris Doyle
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Shola Lawal
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Katrina Yu
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Peter Smith
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Qaanitah Hunter
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Mohammed R Mhawish
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Joseph Stepansky
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Alia Chughtai
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Catherine Nouhan
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Ehab Jabareen
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Hanna Duggal
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Sunniya Ahmad Pirzada
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Hafsa Adil
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Samir Habashneh
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Abid Hussain
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Edna Mohamed
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Caolán Magee
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Rokhaya Diallo
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Patrick Keddie
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Adam Hancock
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Layth Mushtaq
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Nasser Al-Sakkaf
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Euan Marshall
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Osama Bin Javaid
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Noor Kareem
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Kristina Harazim
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Dimitar Bechev
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Khalid Al-Karimi
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Marthe van der Wolf
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Anushe Engineer
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Simon Speakman Cordall
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Bassil Mikdadi
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Jeremy Corbyn
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Khaled M Batarfi
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Lauren Ong
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Heba Habib
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Dario Morgante
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Hoda Sherif
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Tamara Khandaker
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Anealla Safdar
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Yousef Munayyer
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Sophie Stuber
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Federica Marsi
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Zakir Hossain Chowdhury
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Karsen Trull
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Laura O'Connor
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Teresa Bo
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John T Psaropoulos
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Abubakr Al-Shamahi
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Manasi Pathak
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Enes Abuomer
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Mosab Shawer
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Tauseef Ahmad
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Sajid Raina
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Ilan Kapoor
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Farid Hafez
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Maram Humaid
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Riaz Khokhar
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Kristen Talman
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Ronny P Sasmita
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Sultan Barakat
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Catherine Ellis
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Rohan Sharma
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Nadhera Mohammad Qassem
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Umar Farooq
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Moudud Ahmmed Sujan
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Mohamed Hussein
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Mariem Bah
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Virginia Pietromarchi
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Tamam Abusalama
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Neve Gordon
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Andrew Hirschfeld
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Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska
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Faisal Ali
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Barnaby Lo
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Khalid Al-Jaber
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Mark Kersten
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Brian Osgood
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Leila Minkara
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Jack Hewson
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Shayma Zhou Yi Yi
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James A Robinson
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Synne Bjerkestrand
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Sunil Acharya
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Megha Bahree
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Leena Fraihat
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Obaida Hitto
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Nida Ibrahim
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Ibrahim Arafat
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Suleiman Al-Aqili
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Rached El-Moctar
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Veronica Snoj
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Mario Pejovic
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Anton Barbashin
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Ori Goldberg
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Mahjoob Zweiri
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Mikail Malik
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Niko Vorobyov
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AlHasan AlSammarraie
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Nafja Sabbah Al-Kuwari
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Lorenzo Kamel
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Dorian Geiger
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Andrey Kortunov
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Million Belay
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Timothy Wise
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Jordan DeVylder
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Zsombor Peter
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Peiman Salehi
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Marc Jacobsen
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Ahmed Najar
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Yang Xiaotong
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Leyla Hamed
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Enas Abu Ghayad
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Moncef Khane
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Hakeem Najimdeen
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Jigyasa Mishra
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Fayha Shalash
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Yanis Varoufakis
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Alanna O’Malley
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Belén Fernández
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Ashkar Thasleem
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Robtel Neajai Pailey
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Erin Hale
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Shail Desai
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Aaron Walawalkar
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Clive Lewis
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Sonia Bhagat
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Genevieve Mansfield
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Abdulla Ibrahim
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Wenran Jiang
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Mohamed Kheir Omer
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Waleed Ibrahim
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Nawaf Obaid
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Husam S Zomlot
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Omar Shabana
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Mohamed Eljarh
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Liam O'Hare
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Fatemeh Karimkhan
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Nabil Ahmed
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Adolfo Franco
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Zeina Khodr
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Ali Abu Issam
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Rob McBride
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Rebecca O’Keeffe
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Alexander Hoad
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Charu Sudan Kasturi
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Durdana Bhat
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Fatima Edam
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Said Arikat
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Tafi Mhaka
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Dwomoh-Doyen Benjamin
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Hafsa Abdiwahab Sheikh
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Saad Abedine
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Eyad Qatrawi
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Ameerah Arjanee
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Antoine Allen
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Getty Images
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Samantha Ho
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Cameron Hudson
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Karim Natour
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Lina Ghassan Abu Zayed
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Yassine Fall
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Jaclynn Ashly
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Saeed Al Batati
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Farai Matiashe
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Ahmed Diab
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Arshak Makichyan
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Yoav Litvin
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Toh Ee Ming
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Manzoor Khan
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Javid Abdelmoneim
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Muamer Tanovic
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Vidya Krishnan
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Saif Khalid
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Imran Khan
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Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi
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Said Alsaloul
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Phineas Rueckert
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Yossi Mekelberg
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Yara Hawari
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Refaat Ibrahim
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Abdullaziz albaraa
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Annesha Ghosh
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Abdelhakim Abu Riash
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Fuad Kovačević
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Somdeep Sen
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Peyman Pejman
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Mahmoud Sayed
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Deepali Saxena
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Saumya Roy
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AbdulHakim Helal
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Nadim Asrar
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Sally Saleh
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Aatif Ammad
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Christine Maguire
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Prosper Heri Ngorora
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Sergey Vasiliev
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Triestino Mariniello
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Kyaw Win
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Dmitri Trenin
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Ateq Garallah
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Lisa Ossenbrink
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Seymur Kazimov
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Munzoul A M Assal
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Tohid Asadi
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Abdulsamad Elfgeeh
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Basel Ghazoghli
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Kirsten Schuijt
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Mohamed Alzanin
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Nina Montagu-Smith
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Jeremy Young
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Khadeejah Khan
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Cape Diamond
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Zaheena Rasheed
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Tanweer Fazal
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Aizat Shamsuddin
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Ali Harb
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Heidi Pett
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Adji Bousso Dieng
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Michelle Bruton
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Mehran Firdous
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Jason Jones
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Mario Reinaldo Machado
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John Feehery
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Nour Odeh
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Chris Hughes
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Hassan Aourid
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Alex Milan Durie
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Rory Challands
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Vivianne Wandera
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Christopher Rhodes
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Bernard Smith
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Al Jazeera Investigative Unit
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Isabella Fattore
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M Neelika Jayawardane
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Mohammad Saleh
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Oscar Berglund
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Maximilian Hess
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Bruno Cava
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Elizabeth Melimopoulos
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Vladislav Inozemtsev
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Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik
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Indlieb Farazi Saber
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Fiona Kelliher
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Michele Bertelli
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Opinion by Dmitri Trenin
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Adamu Aliyu Ngulde
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Diana Buttu
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Monica Yanakiew
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Meg Duff
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Kaddy Jawo
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Guillaume Long
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Ramy Allahoum
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Emadeddin Badi
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Aleksandar Matković
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Mohamad Kadan
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Osasu Obayiuwana
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Mohamad Elmasry
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Sonia Gallego
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Yulia Shapovalova
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Sinem Koseoglu
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Nicolas Haque
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Jeffrey D Sachs
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Sybil Fares
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Asad Ashraf
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Charles Rosser
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Daniela Diaz Rangel
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Joshua Collins
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Key European defence ministers meet in Paris to discuss Ukraine support | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

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Suwayda remains in stasis as US signals differences with Israel on Syria | Syria's War News | Al Jazeera

Israel expands expulsions in occupied West Bank to cement control | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Israeli forces kill at least five people in Gaza, including 7-year-old girl | Gaza News | Al Jazeera

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Four dead at a wedding in Kuhestak. Three of four experts say the munition was American. — read, nothing on this event
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