Thursday, 3. April 2003
Topic: TV - on April 3, 2003 at 11:01:06 AM CEST
Al-Jazeera halts Iraq broadcasts
The Arabic news channel al-Jazeera says it is suspending its reports from Iraq in protest after Baghdad banned two of its correspondents from working there.
The station said the Iraqi Information Ministry had barred Diyar al-Omari - an Iraqi - from reporting, and ordered correspondent Tayseer Alouni to leave the country.
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