On the brink of the fiscal cliff – and it’s no road movie
No more Mr Nice Guy from Barack Obama as America peers over the fiscal cliff – but what are the implications?
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North Korea is scrapping its non-aggression pact with South Korea and shutting a shared border point in response to UN sanctions, insisting it reserves the right to a “pre-emptive nuclear attack”.
Retired US General Norman Schwarzkopf, who led troops in the 1991 Gulf war, has died aged 78 in Tampa, Florida, the American military confirms.
No more Mr Nice Guy from Barack Obama as America peers over the fiscal cliff – but what are the implications?
The Labour leader has a problem. His party might be ahead of the Tories in the polls, but he’s lagging far behind David Cameron in the popularity stakes. Time for the image consultants?
It will be the most potentially embarrassing appearance on a talk show since Jonathan Ross asked David Cameron if he ever had sexual fantasies about Margaret Thatcher. Equally, if he pulls it off with aplomb there will be dividends. The Prime Minister is going to ‘do’ David Letterman tonight.
Imran Khan moves his anti-drone march in Pakistan to 7 October and, speaking to Channel 4 News, calls on the US to “reveal the identities of drone victims”.
Thanks to the weather America is talking more about Isaac than Mitt this week and that is just rotten bad luck for the Republicans.
In every American presidential cycle one of the favourite Washington parlour games centres on the choice of the Vice Presidential candidate. After weeks of nose haired tingling speculation Mitt Romney, the man who will take on Barack Obama in November, has finally pricked the bubble of suspense.
After the 2012 day one blunder when the South Korean flag was used to welcome the North Korean football team, Channel 4 News recalls memorable diplomatic gaffes from the world of sport.
What kind of president is Barack Obama? Certainly not the kind that America thought it had elected almost four years ago. Matt Frei blogs on Mr Obama’s expansion of cyber warfare and use of drones.
He spoke about the glaring reality of “two Americas”, but the Democrats’ one-time “new hope” tried to hide a shocking reality of his own.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum recalls a conversation with the man at the centre of Libyan rendition claims on how close the CIA and MI6 became with Libyan intelligence.
Matt Frei blogs on the complicated, but usually less costly tax system in the US.
President Obama has realised that even if he doesn’t stay up at night worrying about how essential or special the relationship is, there is something useful about a mate you can rely on, like a permanently available date for a lonely night.
As US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta announces an early switch from a combat to a support role, Alex Thomson reports from Kabul on what will become of Afghanistan once the Americans leave?