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Competing for attention – the final chapter on my book tour
By the end of my US book tour, I saw myself as a tiny point of light gradually being extinguished, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
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Questions are raised over the government’s ties to Saudi Arabia as the extent of UK arms exports to repressive regimes is laid bare.
It’s exactly eight years since I reported from Nyala on the scorched-earth tactics of Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, writes Jonathan Miller.
By the end of my US book tour, I saw myself as a tiny point of light gradually being extinguished, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
Militant Libyan cleric Abu Yahya al-Libi, described as al-Qaeda’s second in command, has been killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan, officials confirm.
Syria is tilting closer towards “all-out” civil war, international envoy Kofi Annan says, as eight are killed in Lebanon in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Assad.
Channel 4 News challenges the Syrian ambassador before the UN Human Rights Council’s special session probing the Houla massacre after 13 more bodies are discovered.
President Obama, pre-occupied with extricating the USA from his predecessor’s wars, has little stomach for military action in Syria.
Bashar and Asma al-Assad, Syria’s one-time golden couple, beguiled the West, then betrayed their own people. In the aftermath of the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.
We have an infernal combination of danger in which the international community has somehow rendered itself powerless to do more that watch and shout. And how many babies, young children and women, will that save?
Reports say that Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing has died of cancer at the age of 60.
The question now is will al-Qaeda, with its new North African leadership, be able to capitalise on the politcal instability which follows revolution?
Syria agrees on the terms of a ceasefire monitoring mission which will see more United Nations observers deployed.
There are calls for a return to democratic rule in Mali after two weeks of chaos in which the government was toppled by soldiers and key northern towns – including Timbuktu – captured by separatists.
The demise of Colonel Gaddafi was a stone cast into a pool – a huge wave rather than a ripple has hit Libya’s neighbour, Mali.
Libyan officials confirm Abdullah al-Senussi, Colonel Gaddafi’s head of secret police, has been arrested in West Africa after fleeing Tripoli last year.