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Al Jazeera English launched on the 15th of November 2006, funded by approximately $1 billion from the Qatari government. It was the first global English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East.
Al Jazeera English was geo-blocked in the United States on the 18th of August 2013 because carriage agreements with American pay-television providers required it as a condition of distributing the new Al Jazeera America channel. The block was lifted in September 2016 after Al Jazeera America shut down in April of that year.
Australian Peter Greste, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were arrested on the 29th of December 2013. Greste was deported to Australia on the 1st of February 2015; Fahmy and Mohamed received presidential pardons from Egyptian President el-Sisi on the 23rd of September 2015 as part of a broader pardon covering 100 individuals.
By 2009, Al Jazeera English was accessible to 130 million homes across more than 100 countries through cable and satellite, according to a network spokeswoman in Washington.
Al Jazeera English won a Peabody Award in 2011 for its coverage of the Arab Awakening, and a second Peabody in 2017 for correspondent Fatma Naib's documentary "The Cut: Exploring FGM." As of May 2017 the channel had won more than 150 prizes, medals, and awards in total.
Released in 2012, "What Killed Arafat" investigated the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004 at the age of 75, and suggested he may have been poisoned with polonium-210. The documentary won the CINE Golden Eagle and received nominations for the RTS, BAFTA, and Monte Carlo Film Festival.