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In DR Congo with Angelina Jolie
She enlisted William Hague in the global campaign against warzone rape, and empowered women facing breast cancer. Cathy Newman explains why she chose Angelina Jolie as her person of the year.
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She enlisted William Hague in the global campaign against warzone rape, and empowered women facing breast cancer. Cathy Newman explains why she chose Angelina Jolie as her person of the year.
South Sudan’s government says its military have recaptured the key town of Bor, days after it was seized by rebels.
A plane carrying British nationals leaves South Sudan after the Foreign Office warns people to leave the country as violence spreads.
A British surgeon who was imprisoned for a year by Syrian security forces while helping casualties of war is found dead in a prison cell.
UN chemical weapons experts confirm that the nerve gas sarin was “definitely” used in Damascus, in up to five places. Soldiers and civilians died but the report stops short of blaming any side.
France steps in as violence in the troubled former colony claims more than 100 lives. Britain pledges to support the operation with a military transport plane.
Tit-for-tat killings, rape, refugees – the Central African Republic has been described as “on the brink of genocide”, so should the international community intervene?
Police use rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas on anti-government protesters in Thailand, as a previously peaceful protest turns ugly. Asia Correspondent John Sparks was there.
The German government has received information suggesting the United States may have monitored the chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone and are demanding an immediate clarification.
Rebel groups in Syria are accused of killing as many as 190 civilians and taking 200 hostages during an offensive in August, Human Rights Watch claims.
Chemical weapons inspectors make their first journey into Syria, under the terms agreed by President Assad and the west. But this is dangerous work, in the midst of a raging and complex civil war.
From imminent intervention to the realpolitik of Moscow, outplaying the west at every turn – what a difference a few weeks makes.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, could meet Barack Obama for the first time this week – however, some fear the United States could demand too much from Iran.
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he is committed to destroying his country’s chemical weapons but it will take about a year to do so.