‘Robust’ Jeremy Hunt expected in the Commons shortly
Jeremy Hunt intends to be “robust” in his Commons appearance today which should get under way around 1.30 or so.
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Kofi Annan quits as international mediator on Syria amid failure to halt the violence ravaging the country since the start of the uprising to oust President Assad 17 months ago.
With Syrian forces pounding rebel-held areas of Aleppo with helicopter gunships on Friday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he fears another massacre on the scale of Srebrenica.
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Foreign Secretary William Hague meet in London for talks aimed at ending Syria’s civil war.
As the regime seeks to regain control of Aleppo, Syria’s commercial hub, fighting also flares again in the capital Damascus where another massacre is alleged to have taken place.
“What the government isn’t saying today is something many economists agree on: a black market in services produces benefits to the economy as well as costs.”
Syria promises not to use chemical weapons against its own citizens, an action UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says that would be “reprehensible”. Alex Thomson reports live from Damascus.
Syrian rebels seize posts on the Iraqi and Turkish borders amid failing diplomacy and fears the government will turn to chemical weapons to stop an uprising that has already killed thousands.
Fighting has intensified in Damascus as the UN tries to persuade Russia and China to impose tougher sanctions on Syria.
Scientists at Cern claim to have discovered the “God particle”, explaining how the universe is held together, but does this affect anyone who is not a particle physicist?
International outrage grows at the destruction of Timbuktu’s cherished mosques and mausoleums – but it time running out for Mali’s historic landmarks?
Jeremy Hunt intends to be “robust” in his Commons appearance today which should get under way around 1.30 or so.
United Nations monitors enter the village in Syria where a massacre was reported, hours after the organisation’s chief warns that civil war is an “imminent and real” danger.
A new plan for addressing violence in Syria is to be considered by the UN on the day its monitors in Syria were shot at while trying to reach the site of the latest “massacre” near Hama.
In another blow to the British High Street – the embattled greetings card chain Clinton is being forced into administration, putting eight thousand jobs at risk.
Channel 4 News International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, on blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, and how he gave 100 armed police the slip