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  • 24 Sep 2010

    Trainee accountant Paul Chambers, who was convicted of posting a message on Twitter threatening to blow an airport “sky high”, begins an appeal arguing his tweet would not have been taken seriously.

  • 23 Sep 2010

    The United Nations has condemned Israel’s military intervention to stop a convoy that was trying to break the country’s blockade of Gaza.

  • 8 Sep 2010

    As Sri Lanka’s president Mahinda Rajapakse is given sweeping new powers, the man behind critical posters which have compared him to Hitler has been arrested as foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller writes.

  • 8 Sep 2010

    As Sri Lanka’s president is given sweeping new powers, the man behind critical posters which have compared him to Hitler has been arrested as Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports.

  • 30 Aug 2010

    As Barack Obama returns from his summer break Felicity Spector asks if he can regain the “hope factor” which won him the 2008 election, in the face of negative ratings ahead of the mid-terms.

  • 25 Jul 2010

    It is one of the biggest security breaches in US military history. The man responsible – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – speaks exclusively to Channel 4 News about the Afghanistan war logs.

  • 9 Jul 2010

    The story of a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran has sparked international outrage. Channel 4 News speaks to campaigners and explains the laws surrounding a “medieval punishment”.

  • 16 Mar 2010

    Exclusive: Former army commander and presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka, who faces charges in a military court, tells Channel 4 News from his Sri Lanka prison cell that he is being set up.

  • 22 Dec 2009

    Bank charges – is the government off the hook?

    Faisal Islam blogs on bank charges and what it means for the government.

  • 19 Sep 2009

    From Ohio this week comes the latest story about how difficult America seems to find it to kill the poor souls incarcerated on their death rows. They attempted to execute Romell Broom, who was convicted of raping and murdering a 14 year old girl 25 years ago, on Tuesday. But they simply couldn’t kill him.

  • 12 Mar 2009

    So, you’re a nuclear-armed nation with a massive Muslim extremist insurgency that’s causing the world’s only superpower a huge headache across your border. You have a president who’s never faced a popular vote, and who’s just banned his main – and pretty popular – opponent from elected office. Your economy’s tanking, your capital’s pretty much…

  • 12 Feb 2018
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    Last week, the Freemasons took out a full-page advert in several newspapers claiming that its members felt “stigmatised”. It followed news reports about the fraternal organisation, questioning their influence in policing and politics. In response, the Freemasons called for a change in attitudes and highlighted their extensive charity work. But do their arguments stack up?

  • 21 Jul 2017
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    HS2 has come under repeated criticism for bad planning and wasting money. Even the Department for Transport’s own former Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Roderick Smith has called for a “root-and-branch review” of the whole project. So what’s really going on? And how does the project compare to other high speed trains across the world?

  • 2 Dec 2015
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    Britain bombs IS but considers Saudi Arabia a close ally, despite widespread criticism of the Gulf kingdom’s human rights record. Is it fair to compare the two?

  • 10 Jun 2015
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    Thousands of migrant workers have reportedly lost their lives working on World-Cup related construction in Qatar. But Qatar says no one has died. Who’s right?

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