Europe and the hokey cokey
Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the twists and turns of the government’s EU policy – and what a referendum could involve.
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Heavy fighting in the streets of Damascus follows a bomb blast which killed Syria’s defence minister, deputy defence minister – President Assad’s brother-in-law – and a senior military official.
As the Assad regime fights back in the south of Damascus, its opponents in the Free Syrian Army say they have launched their fight for the capital, dubbed “Operation Damascus Volcano”.
Three British climbers, killed in an avalanche in the French Alps, are named by the Foreign Office.
Kofi Annan says he is “appalled” by the massacre of up to 200 people in the Syrian village of Tremseh, one of the bloodiest incidents in the country’s ongoing conflict.
Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the twists and turns of the government’s EU policy – and what a referendum could involve.
The prime minister says he is prepared to use a referendum to forge changes that would produce a less restrictive relationship between the UK and its European partners.
Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader once jailed by ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, succeeds him as president of the world’s most populous Arab nation.
On the day the US and Russia call for an end to Syrian violence, a cargo ship believed to be carrying Russian-made attack helicopters to Syria turns back in British waters.
“If you’re a political animal and have never read Caro, I urge you to do so.”
Which world capital is most likely to provide a breakthrough in the global response to the violence in Syria? Some would say Moscow, but I am plumping for Ankara.
Syrian forces who stand accused of committing a massacre in Houla could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, according to the UN high commissioner for human rights.
Britain and several other countries are expelling Syrian diplomats following the killing of 108 people, half of them children, in Houla.
Forty people are killed in Syria as international mediator Kofi Annan arrives in Damascus following the deaths of more than 100, many of them children, in Houla.
As outrage grows over the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.
The UN Security Council meets to discuss the massacre of more than 100 men, women and children in Houla as international condemnation grows.