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Alex Thomson
“Traffic cops, immaculate and in designer shades, politely ask to see our Ministry of Information permission. Presently, sensibly in the shade of some trees, a not-so-very-secret mukhabarrat secret policeman will radio our information to his desk from our translator.”
The UN says as many as 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours to escape the bloody uprising, and Syria’s intelligence chief dies of wounds sustained in a bomb blast.
With the systematic slaughter of dozens of non-combatants, the evidence on the ground in the Syrian town of Houla is of a war crime. But Syria’s government is saying it had no hand in the massacre.
More than 90 people were killed and 222 injured when a suicide bomber attacked soldiers practising for a military parade in Sanaa, the Yemen capital.
North Korea admits that its much publicised rocket launch, which international journalists were invited to watch, fell to the ground only minutes after taking off.
As a ceasefire between Syrian government troops and rebel forces comes into effect, there are reports from both sides of continuing violence, and tanks remain stationed in cities across the country.
As France swiftly expels two radical Islamists, Channel 4 News looks at why the British government is finding it so difficult to remove radical cleric Abu Qatada.
John Sparks on developments in Thailand’s international terrorism saga.
As the Greek president hits back at criticisms of his country from the EU, it looks like the Greek deal could be unravelling.
As President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad loads nuclear fuel rods into the Tehran Research Reactor, experts say Iran does have the technology to make a nuclear weapon, but lacks the political will – for now.
As a Russian magazine reports the country came close to nuclear disaster in December following a fire on a submarine, Channel 4 News speaks to an engineer who worked on the salvage of the Kursk.
There has been widespread anger in Egpyt after 74 people died in football violence. As Jonathan Rugman reports, conspiracy theories abound about how the tragedy could have happened.
Alex Thomson
A history of conflict and a decade of nation-building means that getting in and out of Kabul hotels – each of which is a sizeable target – is a real accomplishment.
Chjannel 4 News International Editor Lindlsey Hilsum blogs on Youtube footage that appears to prove that Iran is sending Revolutionary Guards to fight in Syria.
Activists and Arab League observers report an escalation in violence in Syria amid claims that forces loyal to President Assad killing an estimated 50 people over two days.