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Why Al Arabiya won't report more about Shireen Abu Akleh's death?

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Politically, when we look about journalism, we may expect every journalist to have the same degree of respect to each other, even when their affiliation may complicate the matter. Not this time though. Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist of Catholic background, had been shot dead by an unknown assailant on 11 May 2022, when she was covering news from Jenin, which had been recently besieged by the Israeli special forces hunting for Palestinians suspected of being terrorists. Her past was also interesting, she gained American citizenship from her maternal parents but she felt belonged to Palestine instead, and chose the journalist path. But in a faithful encounter, she enrolled herself to Al Jazeera in 1997. By that time, Al Jazeera was still a baby TV channel, established a year ago and used the staff from the already closed BBC Arabic branch in Riyadh that relocated to Qatar. And Shireen's role was far more important than expected: her journalist activities have ma...

A TV channel could have the potential of destroying the Indo-Russian relations. And it can happen sooner or later

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When a TV channel revealed the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko's military and tactical plan to conquer Moldova , by blunder, the news shocked international community and showed the true extent of Putin's grand ambition. The Russian dictator's megalomania about imperialist conquest for the restoration of his Russian Empire, and the fact that he was targeting Moldova, a former Soviet state, could be seen as a reason why the Eastern European country immediately requested joining the European Union. This advantage Putin aimed to catch on while invading Ukraine, was lost. But that channel is not a normal channel. It's the country where it is stationed that matters the most for us. That channel is WION, an Indian right-wing TV channel recently accumulated a lot of watchers. So, how that channel comes to life, and, if anything, how would this channel play any major role in disrupting or, potentially, ruining the relationship between Russia and India? Establishment WIO...