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Egypt: tense mood as regime tries to close down protests
Thousands defy a curfew to demand the resignation of President Mubarak, with one protester telling Channel 4 News “they can shoot me” because “Egypt is dead anyway”.
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Violence erupts across Egypt as unrest escalates
Tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets clashing with police across Egypt who retaliate with tear gas and rubber bullets. The Channel 4 News correspondent in Cairo witnesses an “uprising”.
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American rapper calls on UAE to stop fuelling war in Sudan
Celebrities often support aid agencies, but by recognising the role of regional powers in Sudan, Macklemore has done something more significant: he has identified the real cause of the suffering and called for action.
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‘No information’ to suggest Hamas fighters were in UN school hit by Israel says UNRWA
We spoke to Sam Rose, who’s head of planning at UNRWA – the UN Agency responsible for supporting Palestinians.
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The war in Gaza could last till end of the year, Israel says
It’s emerged, meanwhile, that bombs used in a strike which left 45 people dead in a refugee camp this weekend were American-made
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Blocked Gaza aid trucks a ‘moral outrage’ says UN chief
The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has called the queue of aid-trucks waiting to be allowed into Gaza where people face starvation, ‘a moral outrage’. He was visiting the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, not far from Rafah, where almost half of Gaza’s population have been displaced and where Israel is threatening to launch…
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Sudan crisis: 8 million people displaced and desperate for aid (Dubbed)
Nearly eight million people have been displaced, making it the largest crisis of its kind in the world.
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FactCheck: who are the Houthis, why has the UK used air strikes in Yemen and how is it linked to Israel and Gaza?
RAF Typhoons joined air strikes against targets in Yemen last night.
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Israel forces prepare to strike Gaza from ‘air, sea and land’
No power or fuel, no water coming out of the taps and food running dangerously low. The UN says the humanitarian situation in Gaza was already critical and is now “fast becoming untenable”. All this as the Israeli military warns it will strike Gaza City “very soon”.
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FactCheck: what is a war crime and did Hamas commit war crimes in its attack on Israel?
This is what the laws of war say.
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Sudan crisis: thousands flee to Ethiopia as fighting gets worse
Fighting in Khartoum between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary RSF group shows no sign of abating despite diplomatic talks taking place in Saudi Arabia.
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FactCheck: who were the victims of the ‘Islamic State’ in 2015?
The attacks in France dominated the headlines, while the media were accused of ignoring other victims of the so-called Islamic State’s global campaign of terror.
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Saudis form Islamic alliance to combat terrorism
Saudi Arabia is leading an alliance of Muslim countries to combat Islamic State and other terrorist organisations.
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FactCheck: How does IS fund its reign of terror?
The so-called Islamic State group (IS) wants to expand its self-proclaimed Caliphate from Syria and Iraq to other parts of the Middle East, North Africa and even Europe. How will this be funded?
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Russian plane crash: ‘unusual sounds’ in cockpit
Transcripts of cockpit recordings from the Metrojet plane which crashed in the Sinai desert with the loss of 224 lives are reported to reveal unusual sounds just before the disaster.