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Channel 4 News sweeps TV journalism awards after Cambridge Analytica scoop
In a record night for Channel 4 News, the programme took home a total of seven gongs at the prestigious Royal Television Society awards. As well as multiple awards for the Cambridge Analytica investigation, the programme was also named Daily News Programme of the Year.
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Jeremy Corbyn hits out at decision to strip Shamima Begum of British citizenship
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has criticised the decision to strip British citizenship from the teenager Shamima Begum – who went to Syria to join the militant Islamic State group – saying she should be allowed back to the country to face questioning. Her family still hope to bring her newborn baby to live with them in the UK. While in…
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Venezuela’s Guaidó vows to unblock aid
Planning is under way inside and outside Venezuela to deliver humanitarian aid from the US.
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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos accuses US tabloid of ‘blackmail’ over ‘intimate photos’
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of Amazon and the Washington Post, is going to war with the US tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer, and has accused its parent company of “extortion and blackmail”.
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US court find Syrian government guilty over journalist Marie Colvin’s killing
The judge said the the extra-judicial killing of the American reporter Marie Colvin was part of “Syria’s long-standing policy of violence” against journalists.
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On the frontline of the US government shutdown in Alabama
The US federal government has been shut down now for 27 days… that’s 800,000 staff who haven’t been paid – while projections of the lost economic growth have doubled. A new poll suggests President Trump’s approval rating is falling, even among his closest supporters – although he’s still blaming his Democratic rivals for the impasse…
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Trump to discuss shutdown with Congressional leaders
In Washington, a host of new politicians are just about to take their seats as Congress begins its 116th session, but the federal Government is still locked in a partial shutdown over Donald Trump’s demand for a wall along the US/Mexican border. President Trump has invited leaders from both sides to discuss border security at…
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Trump defends decision to pull troops from Syria
The US president said Washington shouldn’t spend trillions of dollars protecting others who don’t appreciate it. And he’s won the backing of Russian president Vladimir Putin, who said it was “the right thing”.
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White House says US withdrawing troops from Syria
Reports that President Trump is planning to abruptly pull all US troops out of Syria because, he says, ISIS has been defeated, have been met with surprise, both in Washington and across the world.
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Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina appears to reach plea deal
She is the Russian accused of trying to infiltrate the all-powerful US gun lobby which has close ties to Republican politicians. Maria Butina has been locked in solitary confinement while facing charges of trying to influence Washington’s policies towards Russia. She certainly had surprising access to conservative politicians, including – in one memorable interaction captured on video –…
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Trump slams Mueller Russia probe before new information released
President Trump has raged through a wild tweetstorm, named his new choices for Attorney General and UN Ambassador, and faced questions over his Chief of Staff John Kelly being poised to resign.
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Saudi activist: ‘One tweet is enough to ruin your life’
In the fallout from the Khashoggi murder case, some Saudi activists in the US and Canada have told Channel 4 News they believe they’ve been actively targeted by Saudi authorities
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Cohen admits that he lied to Congress
In a Manhattan courtroom another element in the investigation into the contact between the Kremlin and the 2016 Trump Campaign team has emerged.
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Ukraine votes on martial law after Russia seizes ships
Ukraine’s parliament is voting on whether to impose martial law, after three of its Navy vessels were fired upon and their crew seized by Russia.
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Questions over Mueller probe after Trump fires Sessions
Barely have the results of the midterm elections sunk in than a new drama begins for Washington. The future of Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian collusion with the Trump election campaign team is in question after the President sacked the man who oversees it all. Reports claim that Special Counsel Mueller has begun writing his final report.…