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President Barack Obama’s support for same-sex marriage is as shrewd as it is bold, calculated to reinvigorate core supporters and young Democrats while courting Hollywood donors, analysts say.
Exclusive: Chen Guangcheng tells Channel 4 News he left the US embassy for hospital as part of an “agreement” with the Chinese government, but despite promises, no-one from the US embassy is with him.
Leading human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest and is in a hidden location, but Channel 4 News hears his nephew is on the run after a violent clash with authorities.
As more than 30,000 people promise to protest this weekend in Russia after a disputed election result, Robin Cook’s former adviser tells Channel 4 News we are witnessing the start of “serious change”.
Jon Snow
“Can oil dependence, defence contracts and the rest really be the only excuse for the rest of the world, the UK and the US in particular, turning a very deliberately blind eye to the oppression of women in a country described as ‘one of our closest allies’?”
Exclusive: As the woman who became the face of Libya’s rebel struggle heads to the US, Channel 4 News reveals how – after her alleged rape by Gaddafi troops – she suffered “outrageously” in Qatar.
Gary Gibbon
As the Libya conference draws to a close, Political Editor Gary Gibbon says the key aim was to show that the dismal planning over Iraq is not a mistake that is being repeated.
Gary Gibbon
The Wikileaks documents contain interesting stuff on Gary McKinnon as well as differing opinions between the UK government and the military over the deployment of troops in Afghanistan, Gary Gibbon writes.
I am beginning to wonder if we are at a profound historical turning point in world economics.
As Iranian President Ahmadinejad dodges questions about the remaining US hikers held in Tehran, Lindsey Hilsum asks if he can deflect attention from the opposition movement within his own regime?
Jon Snow
So an obscure cleric in an obscure Florida church wants to set fire to 200 copies of another faith’s Holy Book. Fifty years ago we would never have known. But thanks to the “communications revolution”, the world knows about Pastor Terry Jones and his animus against Islam. At one level the absurdity of such antipathetic…
US-Pakistan relations face new strain as a major data leak leads to fresh allegations of Pakistani support for Afghan rebels. Dr Farzana Shaikh, Chatham House talks to Channel 4 News.
Jon Snow
Today’s visit to Gaza by the EU’s foreign affairs chief is as important for the EU as it is for Gaza. So far the appointment of the obscure Baroness Ashton has attracted something between deep scepticism and ridicule.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs on David Miliband’s speech on Afghanistan and wonders if it will improve his standing with a certain American Secretary of State…
A crisis of the motor industry; a crisis of the home industry; a credit crisis; and high petrol prices. Every expressway of the American Great Recession passes through Elkhart Indiana, capital of RV manufacturing (recreational vehicle: basically motorhomes and trailers). It’s totally devastating for places like Elkhart that we have just visited at the same…