Jon Snow
Re-entering the EU through the back door – no liquids checks either.
Jon Snow blogs on his travels to the EU, via the Non-EU country of Switzerland.
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Dame Joan Sutherland dies aged 83
Dame Joan Sutherland, hailed as the greatest opera soprano of her time, has died in Switzerland at the age of 83.
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North Korea parade paves way for Kim Jong-un
North Korea’s leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un has made his public debut during a massive show of the country’s military strength – featuring tanks, missiles and goose-stepping troops.
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Ryder Cup ‘hijacked by EU’
As rain dominates day one of the Ryder Cup, Channel 4 News speaks to one MEP who claims the competition is being hijacked by the European Union.
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North Korea picture reveals Kim Jong-il heir
North Korea releases a photograph of Kim Jong-il and his son, confirming the rise of the Kim Jong-un as potential dynastic successor after his appointment of general earlier this week.
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North Korea: Kim Jong-il’s son promoted
Kim Jong-il’s youngest son is appointed a general amid rumours he could take his father’s place as dynastic successor. Nick Paton Walsh looks at the potential change at the top of the secretive state.
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Clearest signal yet on new North Korean leader
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il is poised to name his son as his successor, but it is difficult to tell what is really going on as a result of the country’s secretive regime, writes Nick Paton Walsh.
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Exclusive: Blair condemns plans to burn Koran
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair tells Channel 4 News that plans to burn copies of the Koran do not represent the west, as President Obama warns it could be used as an al-Qaeda recruitment tool.
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'Africa has already won the World Cup'
On his return from Johannesburg, Channel 4 News foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller blogs that South Africa’s World Cup is a recognition of what the African continent has brought to football.
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Faisal Islam
A bank tax will almost certainly happen
David Cameron says he would definitely introduce a levy on banks to fund their debt to the taxpayer and create a rainy day fund for future bank crises. The Treasury is in a similar place, but is waiting on international agreements.
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Jon Snow
What Polanski's arrest says about cuckoo clock land
The arrest by Swiss police of film director Roman Polanski tells us much about the nature policing in the land of the cuckoo clock.
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Pakistan: inside Taliban-controlled Swat
They worry this is the tip of the iceberg. Swat used to be called the Switzerland of Pakistan. A tidy, idyllic valley where the elite used to ski, the surroundings themselves so beautiful as to make you feel rested. But today, that’s all changed. About two years of intense clashes between the army and militants there…
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The end of Swiss banking secrecy?
Cuckoo clocks, cowbells and inviolable banking secrecy… that’s Switzerland. Except it’s changing. A story that’s crept off the financial pages into the headlines says that the Swiss bank UBS may be forced to reveal to the US authorities the names of up to 52,000 US citizens who allegedly have been evading taxes by putting their…