The popular,Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV broke into its regular news programming to make the announcement that President Obama had won the prize,noting that the President had taken "many extraordinary steps in trying to achieve a rapprochement with the Arab and Islamic world."
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Local TV and radio stations have carried on with their scheduled programming, relegating the death of the al-Qaeda leader to their hourly bulletins or rebroadcasting the coverage being aired by the international media houses.