Lindsey Hilsum
Conjuring the gods of longitude and latitude
A journey to the airport becomes a ten and a half hour trek through the desert. Only one plane is missed.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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British Somalis going back for a future
Parents of some British Somalis are sending their children back to Africa because they fear what might happen to them in the UK, writes reporter Jamal Osman.
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Alex Thomson
No easy task for UN monitors in Syria
Alex Thomson blogs on the difficulties facing the UN officers attempting to monitor the Syrian “ceasefire”.
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Can we pin our hopes on the auto industry?
Nissan announces a massive boost to the economy by creating 2,000 new jobs in the UK – but can car manufacturing lead the way to economic recovery?
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FactCheck: Tories may miss immigration target
Stemming the flood of migration with the UK’s first “immigration cap” was a central pledge in the Conservative Party’s manifesto. They promised to cut immigration from hundreds of thousands, to tens of thousands by the next parliament. How are they doing? FactCheck investigates.
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A cold welcome to Baghdad
I don’t know what it was like before, but if this is the new normal in Baghdad it must take some getting used to.
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Jon Snow
Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Poised for journalism's golden age
Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow gave the Hugh Cudlipp lecture at the London College of Communication. You can read the full text of his speech here.
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Concern over effects of ‘£500m strike’
As unions deny claims that next week’s public sector pensions strike will cost £500m, Labour leader Ed Miliband blames Prime Minister David Cameron for industrial action that “needs to be avoided”.
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Thai flood leaves unemployment crisis in its wake
Flood damaged blue chip companies consider quitting Thailand threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, reports John Sparks from Ayutthaya, Thailand.
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Faisal Islam
Switzerland joins the currency way – welcome to the G-zero
Amid the tumult of re-escalating eurozone crisis, the G7 meets in Marseille on Friday. Just five years ago that would have been seen as a sign for comfort. The finance ministers of the world’s seven most advanced “industrialised” (deindustrialised, surely?) nations meeting to iron out a common cooperative response to the world’s economic problems.
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High-velocity celebration: Tripoli after Gaddafi
For now it is the Eid holiday. A pause. A time to try and drink in what has happened across this city, where another simple grafitti slogan captures the mood, the practicality, the possibility of the new reality: “I love this year – 2011”
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Gangsta's paradise
Not for the first time, Alex Thomson didn’t know what to do, so he drove to the heart of Col Gaddafi’s Tripoli power base. And he found a party.
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No more 'crazy hair' as Gaddafi's Libya lies wrecked
Tripoli airport is a quiet place these days. Colonel Gaddafi’s golf buggy used to transport him to his jet, lying on a pavement outside the terminal building, blogs Alex Thomson.
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The Battle for Abu Salim could also be for Libya
Alex Thomson watches rebel troops amass as they prepare to attack the Gaddafi loyalists’ last bastion, Abu Salim
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Rebels circle Abu Salim, Gaddafi loyalists’ last stronghold
As the hunt for Colonel Gaddafi continues, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson watches Libya’s rebels close in on Abu Salim, the last district in Tripoli held by forces loyal to the despot.
