Arab news sources
War news is converging again. After a few hours everything is recycled in every available media: the expected invasion of Southern Iraq from Kuwait is underway, it’s hard to say if Saddam is alive or not, a helicopter crashed etc, etc.
There were some reports of explosions in Northern Iraq from AFP and Al Jazeera.
How To Read Al Jazeera In English. And an interview with the company translating Arabic news to English.
Here is the the Arabic-to-English translation site. Besides Al Jazeera, there are several other Arabic news sites you can translate: Asharq Al-Awsat from Saudi Arabia, Al Hayat from the United Kingdom and Al-Ahram from Egypt. Some of these sites also have abridged English editions.
It’s hard to beat good old BBC for background news, though.