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California man faces three years in prison for dousing his family's dog with petrol and setting it on fire leaving it to die in agony

• Andrew Delgado set his family's basset hound Buddy on fire in October
• He was charged with one count of animal cruelty and one count of...

The acquisition lifts Al-Jazeera's reach beyond a few large U.S. metropolitan areas including New York and Washington, where about 4.7 million homes can now watch Al-Jazeera English.

Al-Jazeera, owned by the government of Qatar, plans to gradually transform Current into a network called Al-Jazeera America by adding five to 10 new U.S. bureaus...