Live from Gaza: updates as ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ fails
Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from the ground in Gaza – follow his tweets, videos and blogs throughout the day in this live blog.
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Thousands attend the funeral of three senior Hamas military commanders killed in the Gaza Strip.
A US man was left gasping for air for almost two hours after his lethal injection execution went wrong, leading to calls for the return of the firing squad.
Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from the ground in Gaza – follow his tweets, videos and blogs throughout the day in this live blog.
After Islamist fighters seize Western-backed rebel weapons warehouses, the United States and Britain suspend non-lethal aid to northern Syria.
A gun battle takes place inside Yemen’s defence ministry, after a suicide bomber drove into the compound’s gates. More than 20 people are reported to have been killed.
HMS Daring arrives at the crisis zone in the Philippines as part of the UK’s emergency response to Typhoon Haiyan as the search for missing Brits continues.
The Kenya military confirms two Westgate mall attackers exclusively named by Channel 4 News were responsible for the atrocity which killed 67 people last month.
Khaled Saleh of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, tells Channel 4 News that he believes that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian regime.
Syria’s death toll from a day of violence in Damascus escalates ever higher, according to rebels, as a neighbourhood “full of dead people” is discovered.
Britain pulls all embassy staff out of Yemen due to “increased security concerns”, whilst the US orders all non-essential personnel to exit the country.
This article was first written for The Independent in relation to Unreported World on Channel 4 at 7.30pm Friday May 24th or on 4OD
Concerns are raised that the stage is being set for foreign military intervention in Syria following a second Israeli airstrike in Syria in two days.
Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi calls for a meeting with the opposition on Saturday to defuse a political crisis, after violent clashes leave five dead and hundreds injured.
Syrian forces storm the last rebel stronghold in Damascus in tanks and armoured vehicles and blast artillery at rebels in Aleppo, where the UN say the army was preparing a massive assault.
A report by British lawyers who visited Israel and the West Bank accuses Israel’s security forces of regularly breaching the UN convention on children’s rights.