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Cameron’s big reshuffle: live updates
Live updates from Downing Street as the prime minister reshuffles his cabinet.
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Iraq crisis: John Kerry says air strikes in Iraq an option
The US is considering drone strikes to help the Iraqi government, Secretary of State John Kerry says, after photos emerge that appear to show Sunni extremists massacring captured Iraqi soldiers.
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Obama: All options open on Iraq
US President Barack Obama say he is “not ruling anything out” to help Iraq deal with the insurgent threat after days of violence as militants take over a swathe of the country.
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Can Nigeria protect its own people?
The case of the missing schoolgirls in Nigeria has highlighted the country’s failure to protect its own people as it deals with the threat from the violent Islamist group Boko Haram.
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ICC to probe claims British Army committed Iraq war crimes
The International Criminal Court is reopening an investigation into allegations of war crimes against the British Army in Iraq.
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Michelle Obama calls for return of Nigerian schoolgirls
Michelle Obama uses presidential radio address to express outrage at the abduction of at least 200 girls by militant Islamists Boko Haram in Nigeria last month.
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Tributes paid to UK troops killed in Afghanistan crash
The government denies Taliban claims it shot down a military helicopter in Afghanistan killing five British servicemen, calling the crash a “tragic accident” as tributes are paid to those who died.
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Five UK soldiers feared dead in Afghan helicopter crash
The Afghan Taliban claim to have shot down a UK military helicopter which crashed on Saturday, killing five Isaf servicemen – all of whom are thought to be British.
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‘Russia is waging war against Ukraine’
Ukraine’s acting president says Russia is waging war against his country by sowing disorder in the east, and launches a “full-scale anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists.
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Hunt for MH370 continues after three ‘acoustic events’ heard
Chinese and Australian search teams are scouring the vast Indian Ocean trying to verify if any one of three acoustic signals detected could have been from flight MH370’s black boxes.
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End of line for Task Force Helmand: Brits handover province
British-led Task Force Helmand comes to an end after eight years of frontline military operations in Afghanistan involving tens of thousands of UK servicemen and women.
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MH370 search heads to remote part of Indian Ocean
The world’s best survey ships and observation planes converge on a location in the remote south of the Indian Ocean, after a “breakthrough” in the hunt for missing flight MH370 is found.
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Ukraine crisis: live updates
Live updates from Channel 4 News and our team of journalists on the ground in Ukraine as a revolution in the former Soviet country sparks the threat of war with Russia.
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Soldier’s suicide caused by ‘bullying and alleged rape’
Bullying at work, the mental effects of an alleged rape and the break-up of a relationship all played their part in the death of Anne-Marie Ellement, who was found hanging in 2011, a coroner rules.
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Seven army recruitment offices sent suspect packages
Seven suspect packages bearing “the hallmarks of Northern Ireland related terrorism” are sent to army recruitment offices across southern England.
