Gary Gibbon
Putin, Blair and the deep freeze that won’t thaw
One old FCO Russia hand said to me: “They think we’re fundamentally a declining power living in the past – and that’s what we think of them.”
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McKinnon and Ahsan: a tale of two extraditions
As the home secretary is praised for blocking the extradition to the US of a man with Asperger’s syndrome, the government is accused of “old-fashioned racism” over a similar case.
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Journalists captured by ‘British’ militants in Syria
As fighting rages in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a photojournalist tells Channel 4 News Britons were among those who kidnapped him and a Dutch reporter.
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Veteran war reporter Marie Colvin killed in Syria
Award-winning Sunday Times journalist, Marie Colvin, is killed in the Syrian city of Homs. The paper’s owner Rupert Murdoch calls her “one of the most outstanding correspondents of her generation”.
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Amid the power politics, the Syrian people suffer
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on China’s veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria
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Acting up? Russian civil society at 20 years old
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has seen a vibrant civil society emerge, writes Human Rights Watch’s Caroll Bogert, former Newsweek Moscow bureau chief. But what does the future hold?
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Moscow protests over ‘rigged’ Russian elections
Russians take to the streets of Moscow for a second day of protest against the rule of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, following elections at the weekend.
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Government urged to review Babar Ahmad case
A petition calling for a UK trial for a terror suspect who has been detained without charge for seven years reaches 100,000 signatures, meaning the case can be debated in parliament.
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Chelsea’s Abramovich ‘blackmailed Berezovsky’
Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich is accused in court of betraying and blackmailing fellow Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky.
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Gary Gibbon
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‘Blame Russia and China for Sri Lanka failure, not UN’s Ban’
Ban Ki-Moon has come under attack for failing to push for a war crimes probe in Sri Lanka. But a former UN Deputy Secretary-General tells Channel 4 News Ban is powerless to defy Russia and China.
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Dying to tell the story
With Remembrance Day approaching, Britain’s journalistic fraternity has tonight remembered its fallen in a service at the ancient church of St Bride’s in Fleet Street, City of London, blogs Jonathan Miller.
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Insurgents attack Chechen parliament
Insurgents storm the Chechen parliament leaving two police officers and a an official dead. Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum says the rebels are warning they are still in business.
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Jon Snow
Speaking out on Darfur: courage that humbles us all
Jon Snow prepares to present the Anna Politkovskaya award to Dr Halima Bashir from Darfur, Sudan, who gave evidence to the UN over rapes by the militia in her country despite her own suffering.
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At a party with the Chechen shot in Dubai
It’s one of those stories that you have to stop and check yourself about. It fascinates you personally, but you think that you’re probably the only person in the newsroom to care, if not the only person in Britain, maybe. We were in Dubai doing a completely different story (of which more later). But the…
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Meeting Viktor Bout, the 'Merchant of Death'
BANGKOK, THAILAND – For an opening gambit, it didn’t suggest things would go that well. Viktor Bout had, at court, told me several times that the western media were untrustworthy and broadly despicable. Here, as I approached the visitor’s window in the remand centre where he’s been languishing for a year, he was set apart…
