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LIVE BLOG: Who changed the world in 2011?
Who changed the world in 2011? This is how you voted: 1 Mohamed Bouazizi – 57% 2 People power – 26% 3 Occupy movement – 7% Who changed the world in 2011? Add your voice Check out who the Channel 4 News correspondents picked below – first up, Washington Correspondent Matt Frei. Below: Channel 4…
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UN condemns Syria’s crackdown on protesters
In a vote backed by western nations and a number of Arab states, the UN human rights committee has condemned Syria’s violence against protesters.
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Hague urges Syrian opposition leaders to unify
Foreign Secretary William Hague meets Syrian opposition leaders in London and tells them to “put aside their differences”.
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Saif Gaddafi’s fear of the mob exposed in recording
As a mob awaits him on the runway, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi veers between fear of being lynched and bravado at meeting the same fate as his father, a taped conversation with his captors reveals.
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Capturing Saif – a chance for redemption
This is the Zintan’s chance to redeem themselves. If they treat Saif al Gaddafi humanely – in contrast to how the Misrata brigades treated his father when they captured him – it will boost their image and that of the new Libyan authorities.
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Syria – what happens next?
Behind the scenes, the diplomatic momentum on Syria is growing. We are not just talking about the Arab League giving President Assad three days to halt the violence. I understand that senior American diplomats are travelling to Paris today to meet Syrian opposition figures, as well as a conclave of the British, French, Turks, Saudis…
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Syria’s Assad defiant despite resignation call
As the King of Jordan says President Assad should step down and Syria is suspended from the Arab League, analysts tell Channel 4 News Syria’s growing isolation may be “a decisive blow” to the regime.
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On patrol with the 'Syrian Free Army'
That civil war many predict if President Bashar al-Assad is deposed…. well it may have already started.
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Arab League consider suspending Syria
As Syrian troops continue their bloody crackdown on protesters in Homs, a human rights group tells Channel 4 News that Syria “will be suspended from the Arab League” at talks on Saturday.
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Should the UN sanction action against Syria?
As Nato’s mandate officially ends in Libya, Channel 4 News looks at why the UN has not sanctioned the use of force against President Assad’s regime in Syria.
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Saif Gaddafi ‘in contact’ with war crimes court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor says he has had “informal contact” with Libyan fugitive Saif Gaddafi over his surrender to the war crimes court.
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Three months of famine in southern Somalia
The death of one of the world’s worst tyrants on Thursday made it impossible for me to report that we are now three months on since the UN declared a famine in southern Somalia, writes Jonathan Rugman.
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‘Mutassim was in charge not Gaddafi’, says bodyguard
Gaddafi’s bodyguard claims that the former dictator’s son, Mutassim, was “in charge of eveything” from the start of the war, as questions emerge about how the Colonel was killed.
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Gaddafi – from pariah to ally and back again
Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi seized power in Libya in 1969 and ruled until 2011, bringing to its people relative prosperity but subjecting them to a hardline, oppressive dictatorship.