Search results for ‘war on drugs’

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  • 7 Jun 2010

    Tributes are paid to former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable, found dead at his home in south Wales today, as Channel 4 News producer Stuart McTeer remembers his role in the Cool Cymru phenomenon.

  • 26 May 2010

    While 49 people die in the hunt for alleged drug kingpin Christopher Coke, critic Annie Paul writes for Channel 4 News about how Jamaican politics has found itself indebted to gang lords.

  • 19 May 2010

    Exclusive: Channel 4 News has gained special access to social programmes working at the sharp end with some of Britain’s most challenging families.

  • 16 May 2010

    A Channel 4 News investigation reveals how a number of US and Nato units asked for help from Afghan militias previously blamed for assassinations and civilian deaths.

  • 23 Mar 2010

    As the parties prepare to fight the forthcoming general election on economic issues, Jon Snow visits Luton to see what impact the recession has had on voters.

  • 3 Feb 2010

    Alistair Darling gave the impression that the party of the NHS was to continue the bountiful spending settlements that have seen the health service budget triple since 1997, but capital spending is set for a 21.9% real-terms cut.

  • 12 Jan 2010

    Following Nick Martin’s report on the missing girls of Mexico, El Paso Times journalist Diana Washington Valdez writes for Channel 4 News on the horrifying secrets of Juarez.

  • 10 Jan 2010

    The government says use of heroin and crack, the two most addictive drugs out there, is shifting from the young to the old.

  • 28 Sep 2009

    Labour conference: flat as your hat

    Oh I do like to be beside the sea…well normally anyway and this Labour Party Conference is very far from “normal”. For a start it is flat, flat as yer hat. Secondly all those luvvies, or most of them, have evaporated back whence they came. We are down to the formidable rump of Trades Unionists…

  • 23 Sep 2009

    Cracks were showing in Britain’s banking powerhouses as early as 2005, as bad debt was sold and consumers were sucked into a credit vortex. An “ugly” correction was on the cards.

  • 18 Aug 2009

    In a powerful film for Channel 4 News, photographer with The Guardian Sean Smith captured British forces fighting for Helmand province – witnessing frontline combat at first hand with the Black Watch.

  • 29 Jun 2009

    Was he as famous as the Duke of Wellington? There has been some debate about how much time a show like Channel 4 News should devote to a story like the death of Michael Jackson. Both in the newsroom and, I imagine, among our viewers too. Is it really “our” kind of story? Is it…

  • 6 May 2009

    It is hard to say which meeting is more important: Obama’s meeting with the president of Afghanistan or with the president of Pakistan. For it is becoming increasingly clear that Obama’s foreign policy reputation – indeed his presidency – will depend upon success in what US officials call the “Af-Pak” region, in much the same…

  • 1 May 2009

    LA GLORIA, MEXICO – As we arrived the little Mexican mountain hamlet of La Gloria, where the swine flu epidemic may or may not have begun, we were all a little nervous about infection. Apparently about 400 people here had suffered serious flu symptoms in the last month or so. And any kind of flu…

  • 8 Apr 2009

    Arizona is a dangerous place to visit these days. It’s become the kidnap capital of the United States as a wave of violence associated with the raging drug wars in Mexico has swept across the border and into America. More than one abduction a day is reported to the police, and they know that represents…