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On World Refugee Day, Reem Alsalem from UNHCR writes for Channel 4 News on the refugees who came to Syria to start a new life – but find themselves trapped in a new crisis.
Gary Gibbon
Ed Snowden’s claim that GCHQ spied on delegates at the G20 summit “is timed to create maximum embarrassment to the UK government as it hosts the G8 in Northern Ireland this week”.
The diplomatic stand-off over Julian Assange shows no sign of abating, as the Ecuadorian foreign minister says the WikiLeaks founder is prepared to stay in Ecuador’s London embassy for five years.
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.
Cyberhacking was a source of tension between Washington and Beijing even before Edward Snowden made his revelations of serial snooping by US security services. Now he details Chinese targets.
The man who leaked details of a top-secret US surveillance programme drops out of sight in Hong Kong, as Washington calls for aggressive prosecution.
Matt Frei
After two fatal terrorist attacks in the space of two months, it is time to ask how we can stop thousands of potentially angry young men from being turned to terrorism.
From 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians coming here will be subject to the same rules as other European nationals. Alison Harvey explains the complicated benefits system for people entering the UK.
The political sabre-rattling, rarely subdued, has been particularly shrill of late. Andy Davies introduces our series on how Britain is responding to the challenge of immigration.
The Greek government promises “swift” punishment for an attack in which twenty-nine Bangladeshi strawberry pickers were shot and injured by foremen at the farm where they worked.
Home Secretary Theresa May tells parliament the beleaguered UKBA will be broken up, after a damning report warned the backlog of immigration cases will take 24 years to clear.
The Berkshire home of dead Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky is given the all-clear after it was searched for chemical, biological and nuclear material.
The high court in London blocks the deportation of a group of failed Tamil asylum seekers who were due to be sent back to Sri Lanka on Thursday despite torture concerns.
The British government plans to deport 65 Sri Lankan nationals – mostly Tamil, and mostly failed asylum seekers – despite earlier admitting that at least 15 Tamils previously sent back were tortured.
As inspectors discover a vast backlog of UK visa applications, forcing some immigrants to wait more than a decade, Channel 4 News speaks to a British man caught up in the “absurd” delays.