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Kurds ‘take full control’ of Kobani from Islamic State
Kurdish forces are reported to have defeated Islamic State fighters to take full control of the symbolic Syrian town of Kobani, in what could be seen as vindication of US-led coalition airstrikes.
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On the shores with the thousands dying to reach Europe
More than 2,000 people, desperate to reach Europe, have died in Mediterranean waters in just the last three months. Channel 4 News meets some of the survivors as they land in Sicily.
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Yazidis ‘massacred’ by IS in Iraq
Islamic militants in Iraq reportedly massacre 80 members of the Yazidi minority, although reports emerge of a far larger number being killed.
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Lampedusa survivors say Libyans shot holes in their boat
A Libyan military vessel shot at a boat of migrants fleeing from north Africa to Italy before it capsized, witnesses tell Channel 4 News.
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Dozens dead after migrant boat capsizes near Lampedusa
The Italian navy says 34 bodies have been recovered and 206 people rescued after a vessel smuggling immigrants from North Africa overturned in the Channel of Sicily.
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Burma's Rohingyas: how journalism really can make a difference
Journalists are not universally admired, but as I found after making a film about the plight of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims, what we do often pricks the consciences of the poweful.
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Cameron’s backbench battle over arming Syrian rebels
As the Syrian war intensifies and the UN warns about the growing suffering of the Syrian people, is David Cameron facing a backbench revolt that could scupper his plans to help arm rebel groups?
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Four million Syrians will need humanitarian aid by next year
The United Nations warns that the number of people within Syrian needing humanitarian aid will soar from 2.5 million to around 4 million by early next year.
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Kofi Annan to set out ‘last chance’ for Syria’s Assad
As Kofi Annan, special envoy for Syria, briefs the UN Security Council, is this President Assad’s last chance? One blogger tells Channel 4 News it’s now a clear choice – “guns or words”.
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‘Kony 2012 video could be damaging for Uganda’
An internet video campaign calling for the arrest of Lords Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony has been viewed 30 million times. Critics have branded the campaign misguided and potentially damaging.
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Fears of ‘death on an epic scale’ in Somalia crisis
An aid worker in Somalia, the centre of the East Africa drought crisis which has hit 12m people, tells Channel 4 News he fears “death on an epic, unimaginable scale” if more is not done.
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Somalis flee famine as drought grips east Africa
The mass exodus of starving Somali refugees is becoming an unbearable crisis as aid agencies launch an emergency appeal to help millions facing the worst east African drought in decades.
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Pleas for aid as Africa drought sparks crisis
Ten million people across the Horn of Africa are being affected by the worst drought in 60 years. At the world’s largest refugee camp, aid agencies tell Channel 4 News people are facing desperation.
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Libyan Eman al-Obeidi’s treatment in Qatar ‘outrageous’
Exclusive: As the woman who became the face of Libya’s rebel struggle heads to the US, Channel 4 News reveals how – after her alleged rape by Gaddafi troops – she suffered “outrageously” in Qatar.
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Gaddafi: ‘I am not going to leave this land’
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says he is not going to leave Libya and will “die here as a martyr” despite huge protests, as Channel 4 News looks at his defiance, and the ongoing violence.