Not a good week, or month, for Labour
The coalition leadership has dominated the media conversation over the last few weeks, leaving Labour to pick up the pieces of the party’s own internal wrangles.
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The number of successful Somali pirate attacks has halved following the introduction of armed guards and anti-piracy measures. But as Jamal Osman reports, this leads pirates to take greater risks.
The coalition leadership has dominated the media conversation over the last few weeks, leaving Labour to pick up the pieces of the party’s own internal wrangles.
The government says it has no plans to change Britain’s gun laws after a horrific shooting on New Year’s Day that left four people dead. We have some of the toughest gun laws in the world already, ministers have said. That’s almost exactly what Theresa May said 18 months ago, after taxi driver Derrick Bird shot 12 people dead in Cumbria with legally-owned guns.
Following Michael Atherton’s new year killing spree in Peterlee, Channel 4 News looks at the laws on gun possession.
As the Arab League struggles to restore order in Syria, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones reports that the popular rising has now reached a tilting point.
After a year of major change in Libya, a doctor and filmmaker based in Tripoli writes for Channel 4 News on the daily challenges in hospital and on the streets around the city.
North Korea stages a huge funeral for former leader Kim Jong-il, as his people take to the streets once more to pay their respects to the “dear leader”.
The bodies of seven people, apparently shot to death, are found in a flat near Dallas, Texas surrounded by newly unwrapped Christmas presents.
Five explosions rock Nigeria killing dozens of people. The most serious blast is at a Catholic church on the outskirts of the capital Abuja.
Police dealing with rioters need clearer guidelines about when to use guns, plastic bullets and water cannon, according to a report into the summer disturbances by the Inspectorate of Constabulary.
Hundreds of army defectors have reportedly battled President Assad’s forces in southern Syria in one of the biggest armed confrontations yet, after the deaths of 26 people on Sunday.
After David Cameron’s dramatic decision to veto an EU-wide agreement on greater fiscal union for the eurozone countries, it now looks likely that all 26 other European Union (EU) members will try to hammer out a new deal without the UK. But the question still remains, how on earth will it work?
As David Cameron trades blows with other European leaders over a financial transactions tax, Channel 4 News asks if the City should be protected.
More than fifty people have died in Kabul in the worst sectarian violence since the war in Afghanistan began. An analyst tells Channel 4 News he believes it was “stirred by elements from Pakistan.”
After the Merkel/Sarkozy press conference we have an outline of the Brussels deal and you get the impression that Germany has pretty well got its way over France.