Stephen O’Brien: UN opts for ‘pretty good candidate for important job’
Too often UN appointments are made entirely on political patronage and not at all on competence. This time the former has been tempered by the latter.
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A Muslim group is under fire after claiming that Mohammed Emwazi or ‘Jihadi John’ turned to violence after being harassed by the British security services. What do we know about Cage?
The Islamic State group posts a video showing a child executing a man accused of joining the jihadi group in order to spy on it for Israeli security services.
Too often UN appointments are made entirely on political patronage and not at all on competence. This time the former has been tempered by the latter.
Beards have been in vogue for a few years now, but big beards are having their moment too. So have we really passed “peak beard” – or is the best yet to come?
A Manchester chemistry teacher whose family hid his passport to try and stop him from going to Syria has been jailed for six years for planning to fight with Islamic State.
The US ambassador to South Korea says he is “doing well”, after being slashed with a razor by a political extremist at a function in Seoul where he was to give a lecture.
Mohammed Emwazi grew up in Shepherd’s Bush and Queen’s Park, areas of north west London that have had a long and uncomfortable history of radical extremism. Channel 4 News looks back.
Conservative MP Malcolm Rifkind resigns as chair of parliament’s intelligence and security committee and announces he will step down as an MP at the general election.
Two former foreign secretaries are suspended from their parties after accusations they were prepared to use their positions to benefit a private company in return for money.
The claim is that Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind were happy to use their influence for personal gain. But this would not be the first time that MPs have traded their status in return for money.
Pro-Russian separatists have been accused of breaching Ukraine’s fragile ceasefire. But Moscow says they have done nothing wrong. Who’s right?
The Ministry of Defence confirms it is investigating reports that a soldier has left his Cyprus base to join Kurdish peshmerga forces fighting militants from the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
The interception of two Russian Bear bombers off the south coast of England is the latest “show of strength” that could have dangerous implications, senior military figures tell Channel 4 News.
The Syrian government knows it’s in a strong position. If the rebels don’t agree the ceasefire, they may be crushed. Previous ‘local ceasefires’ have been a euphemism for surrender.
The Syrian government has said it is willing to suspend its aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern city of Aleppo so a local ceasefire can be tested, a UN mediator says.