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From the attacks on the United States on 9/11 to the growth of Islamist radicals in Yemen, the global terrorist threat has continued to grow despite the efforts of western intelligence agencies.
Channel 4 News foreign editor Ben De Pear blogs on the involvement of Dr KA Paul in the Koran burning controversy in the United States.
The spokesman for the pastor who is threatening to burn the Koran looks familiar to Foreign Editor Ben de Pear, who watched him lauding former Liberian president Charles Taylor in 2003.
As BP’s business interests in Libya have come under scrutiny in the United States following the Gulf oil leak, Channel 4 News analysis reveals how more Libyan oil is exported to the US than the UK.
On his return from Johannesburg, Channel 4 News foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller blogs that South Africa’s World Cup is a recognition of what the African continent has brought to football.
Jon Snow
Is Union Carbide’s horrific environmental disaster of 1984 America’s ‘BP’? Yesterday’s minimal sentences passed down on eight former Carbide employees, did not include the then Chief Executive Warren Anderson. No one has ever acted upon the arrest warrant that was issued for his arrest. No one until yesterday was ever brought to book. America and…
Jon Snow
Jon Snow blogs on how contributors to his Snowblog have helped create a vibrant election campaign.
In the first dispatch of the day from the FactCheck team we look at the “lying” leaflets claim levelled at Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg’s Trident claims and David Cameron’s pointing of fingers at the Lisbon treaty.
Exclusive: a member of an investigative team working for Channel 4 News met Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian now charged with trying to blow up an airliner bound for Detroit.
It is at least encouraging that the latest attempted act of terrorism has sparked debate here in Yemen about what true Islam means, and what is right and what is wrong.
Jonathan Rugman visits Yemen’s capital Sana’a and finds a city battling poverty, insurgency and the threat of terrorism.
Jon Snow
A prophetic ad in Copenhagen airport’s terminal 2 – picturing an Obama as old as Nelson Mandela, the caption reads ‘back in 2009 we could have turned the tide on global warming….we didn’t.’ It’s true, the climate change summit failed. On the opening day I talked to the UN chairman of the summit, Yvo de…
Jon Snow
World leaders meeting in Copenhagen must understand that Brazil is a vast CO2-sapping country with a surging carbon-emitting economy, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
Nearly eight million people watched BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time last night. How did the claims they heard check out?
Jon Snow
I am in Washington DC amid the build-up to Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th president of the United States. The excitement on the plane over was palpable – this was Flight Obama if there was one. Flights to Washington are normally prosaic affairs: businessmen, lobbyists, diplomatic families. But this one was a veritable rainbow…