Controversial Arab TV news channel Al Jazeera received nominations for International Emmys for the first time.

One of its two bids was for its English-language coverage of the uprising and military crackdown in Myanmar. The other was for reporting on the activities of radical Islamists inside a mosque just before an assault by the Pakistani government.

Brazil's TV Globo also reaped nods in the news and current affairs categories. Its news bid was for coverage of a TAM airliner crash.

Other networks nominated: Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Pro TV News in Romania, ITV News in Britain and SBS Broadcasting in the Netherlands.

Presentation of the International Emmys are being broken into two parts this year. Prizes in the news and current-affairs categories will be bestowed with the U.S. news and documentary Emmys on Sept. 22 at the Frederick P. Rose Hall of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The rest will be doled out at a separate ceremony later this year. Those nominees will be disclosed Oct. 13.

For more details, check out reports in Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Broadcasting & Cable.

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