TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed Russia on Wednesday for shutting down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)/Radio’s Moscow bureau and for rescinding the press statuses and visas of journalists. “Obviously the truth, responsible journalism, sharing what’s actually going on with citizens...
JUBA, South Sudan (AA) – South Sudanese journalists gathered Wednesday at Al Jazeera’s office in the capital Juba to express their solidarity with the family of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the news broadcaster. Thirty-two journalists went to the office carrying placards bearing the late journalist’s image. The head...
The Catholic archbishop in Jerusalem on Monday strongly criticised Israel’s “police invasion” last week of a Christian hospital ahead of the funeral of slain Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. The veteran journalist was shot dead during an Israeli army raid in the West Bank. Palestinians and the TV network said Israeli tr...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “deeply disturbed” by the actions of “some” Israeli officers who violently attacked slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral procession, his spokesman said on Friday. Guterres “was deeply disturbed by the confrontations between Israeli sec...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has denounced the killing of a Palestinian-American journalist in the occupied West Bank during an Israeli raid, but did not assign blame for Shireen Abu Akleh’s death. “We are heartbroken by and strongly condemn the killing of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank,” State Depar...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A colleague of slain Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday about his fellow journalist’s final moments before she was shot while covering an Israeli army raid. Veteran journalist Abu Akleh was among the reporters to rush to the scene in the northern city of Jenin in [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – The killing of prominent Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is a “potential war crime,” a UN official has said. The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said in an interview with Anadolu Agency that the crime constitutes a “serious violation of international humanitarian law and is...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has offered condolences to the family of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead while covering the Israeli raid in the city of Jenin on the morning of Wednesday May 11. […]
ANKARA – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the killing of a veteran Al Jazeera journalist while covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead while covering the Israeli raid in the city of Jenin on the morning of Wednesday May 11. Another journalist, […]
ANKARA (AA) – A Palestinian official on Wednesday denied reports about receiving an Israeli request to launch a joint investigation into the death of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead when she was covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday morning. Another […]
