Iraqi art school graduation - 04 May 2008
It is said that a picture paints a thousand words.
So imagine what a picture from Iraq, one of the bloodiest countries in the world, has to say.
Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports.
It is said that a picture paints a thousand words.
So imagine what a picture from Iraq, one of the bloodiest countries in the world, has to say.
Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports.
Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports on the families of 42 businessmen at the heart of the trial against Tariq Aziz. The former Deputy Prime Minister will also face the death penalty if convicted on charges related to the execution of 42 businessmen in 1992.
Hundreds of artifacts, looted in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq, have been returned to the country, but many more remain missing, stolen from Iraq’s ancient sites.
Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay, reporting from Baghdad, looks at the efforts to safeguard Iraq’s cultural heritage.
The Beijing Olympics are still 5 months away but they’re attracting attention for all the wrong reasons.Human rights campaigners have been staging protests, demanding China be called to account for its human rights record in Tibet.Owen Fay reports on protests designed to place pressure on Beijing.
The Dalai Lama is condemning what he calls China’s rule of terror. Chinese police are reported to be going from door to door in the capital Llhasa, hunting Tibetans involved in the most serious uprising against Chinese rule for nearly 20 years. Tibet’s self declared government in exile says 80 people have been killed. Protests appear to be spreading outside Tibet as latest reports from Sichuan in south west China say 3 protesters have been shot dead there. Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports