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Al-Jazeera launches Balkans broadcast


Qatar-based network hopes venture will provide objective news in a region where media is heavily influenced by politics


The pan-Arab news network al-Jazeera is launching its Balkans operation that is expected to reconnect people divided by the wars in the former Yugoslavia and offer them new perspectives of each other.

Officials of al-Jazeera Balkans say they are starting on Friday evening and plan to provide "objective" and "professional" news to people in countries of the former Yugoslavia in their own languages.

The Qatar-based network purchased a ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...kans-broadcast