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  • 10 May 2012

    How much would you pay for dinner with George Clooney? A fundraising meal at the Hollywood star’s Los Angeles home is set to raise a record $12 million for President Obama’s re-election campaign.

  • 16 Mar 2012

    Police in Washington arrest actor George Clooney during a protest outside the Sudanese embassy against the country’s blockade of aid to southern regions.

  • 15 Mar 2012

    It was the politics of their style as much as the style of their politics, as President Obama and David Cameron lavished mutual praise at last night’s celebrity-packed White House dinner.

  • 9 Mar 2012

    As debate rages over the Kony video, one social media expert tells Channel 4 News that despite its flaws, the film “sets new standards” for media campaigns and “highlights the power of celebrity”.

  • 8 Mar 2012

    An internet video campaign calling for the arrest of Lords Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony has been viewed 30 million times. Critics have branded the campaign misguided and potentially damaging.

  • 19 Jan 2012

    As the Arab League observers pull out, Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller asks what’s next for Syria, as it appears to slide unstoppably towards civil war.

  • 2 Jan 2012

    Arab League ‘failure’ in Syria

    Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on the Arab League’s mission to Syria.

  • 30 Dec 2011

    The Arab League presence in Syria fails to stop violence, as activists report shootings and nail bomb attacks by soldiers during mass protests after Friday prayers.

  • 29 Dec 2011

    As the Arab League struggles to restore order in Syria, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones reports that the popular rising has now reached a tilting point.

  • 27 Dec 2011

    Untangling Syria’s messy civil war

    The Arab League’s fifty or so politicians, human rights workers and observers led by a Sudanese general, certainly have their work cut out, writes Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.

  • 14 Oct 2011

    Refugees who have become separated from family during war and disasters can now use a mobile phone web service to try to find them again. Around 200,000 refugees are expected to use the site.

  • 6 Oct 2011

    The turn of the worm

    I have been scratching my head to think of any other 87-year-old who could have held an audience of over 4,000 in his thrall for an hour and a half as Jimmy Carter did last night on London’s South Bank.

  • 22 Sep 2011

    Lose, lose for Obama – and Palestinians too

    Matt Frei mulls over why the Americans have put the boot into Palestinian statehood.

  • 20 Sep 2011

    As Palestinian negotiators head to the United Nations to push their bid for formal recognition as a state, Jonathan Rugman reports on Palestinians celebrating in the streets in anticipation.

  • 19 Sep 2011

    Twins who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated by a team of British doctors. Their parents say they are “very grateful” to be going home with “two separate and healthy girls”.