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World leaders call for Assad to step down
US President Barack Obama, David Cameron and other EU leaders have called on Syrian president Assad to relinquish power.
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Syria’s Assad says military crackdown stopped
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad tells the United Nations that military and police operations against protesters have ended.
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US puts pressure on Syria’s President Assad
The United States imposes new financial sanctions on Syria and appears to edge closer to calling directly for President Bashar al-Assad to quit.
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Syria’s Assad pledges to battle ‘terrorists’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pledges to pursue a relentless battle against “terrorist groups” despite international condemnation of his regime’s crackdown on protesters.
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Pope’s Irish Ambassador withdrawn over child abuse response
The Vatican labels reaction to an inquiry into child abuse in the Catholic church “excessive” after recalling the Pope’s ambassador to Ireland.
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Syrians dismiss Assad’s promise of reforms
Damascus and several cities across Syria are teeming with anti-government protesters following a speech by President Bashar al-Assad in which he called for stability and pledged new reforms.
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Syria’s army holds the key to Assad regime’s future
As refugees flee the Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour in the face of a concerted military assault, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones writes that the army holds the country’s future in its hands.
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Assad’s Syria vows retribution for ‘deadly attack’
Syrian troops with tanks are believed to be moving on the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughur after the Assad regime vowed ‘firm retribution’ on ‘armed groups’ who they say killed 120 soldiers.
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Libyan ambassador expelled from UK amid Tripoli attacks
The Foreign Secretary expels the Libyan ambassador to the UK in the wake of attacks on British embassy premises in Tripoli. It comes after the apparent death of Gaddafi’s son in a NATO air strike.
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Syrian Ambassador’s wedding invitation withdrawn
The Syrian Ambassador’s invite to the Royal Wedding is withdrawn as Channel 4 News learns envoys from countries with questionable human rights records, such as North Korea and Iran, are attending.
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Syria protests: no concessions from President Assad
A senior Syrian opposition figure tells Channel 4 News the people protesting on the streets of Syria have “reached the point of no return” as President Assad refuses to bow to their demands.
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Ivory Coast: ‘Genocide in the making’ says UN ambassador
Forces loyal to the disputed Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo gun down at least six unarmed women protesters as the country’s UN ambassador warns of “genocide in the making”
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British ambassador escapes Yemen attack
Evidence suggests al-Qaida was behind the failed suicide bomb attack on the British ambassador to Yemen, says Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.
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The colonel, the ambassador and the naked photo…
Colonel Greville Bibby, ever the pukka officer, was trying to impress the deputy governor. They were sitting on red cushions in an empty building the military had commandeered. Chah-e-Anjir was under Taleban control until a few weeks ago, and they were there, along with the British ambassador, Mark Sedwell, to reassure the population that the…
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‘International student economy in UK worth 42 billion’, says vice-chancellor of Leeds Beckett University
We spoke to Professor Peter Slee, the vice-chancellor of Leeds Beckett University.
