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Locals speak of calm in Haiti
Violent anti-UN protests have subsided in Haiti though demonstrators are gathering tonight outside the Government’s Health Ministry in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi rallies supporters
“If my people are not free, how can you say I’m free? We are not free. Either we are all free together or we are all not free together,” Aung San Suu Kyi told her supporters today.
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Al-Qaeda's Coming Home
It seems al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has just pulled off a spectacular coup and scared us all ahead of Halloween, writes Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.
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US General consoles Norgrove aid worker family
The head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, conveys his regrets over the death of aid worker Linda Norgrove to her family.
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Environmental 9/11? Obama and the oil spill
In June Barack Obama likened the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. It was one of several incendiary comments from the president critical of BP.
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Israel and Palestinian leaders begin peace talks
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have begun negotiations in Washington aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state.
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Somalia: 31 killed by al Shabab fighters
Rebel fighters targeting Somali MPs have killed at least 31 people in a suicide attack. Jonathan Rugman reports on what has been described as an “indiscriminate” shoot-out.
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Living on the Afghan frontline with the Taliban
Alex Thomson blogs on a remarkable film on Channel 4 News filmed by freelancer Paul Refsdal about life on Afghanistan’s frontline with Taliban fighters.
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Living with the Taliban on the Afghan frontline
Channel 4 News has obtained rare film of Taliban fighters on the Afghanistan frontline as Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at what it tells us about the insurgents and their tactics.
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Lockerbie, BP, desert deals: who knows who?
How does an ex-spy link BP, Libya and Lockerbie bomber? Who Knows Who investigates the key players at the heart of a growing transatlantic rift – from deals in the desert to the boardroom, via MI6.
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A critical distance in the special relationship
President Obama’s recent criticisms of “British Petroleum” have created the critical distance between the US administration and the new British government that is necessary to ensure a “realistic, practical and sensible” relationship between the two countries, blogs Jonathan Rugman
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Will Iran sanctions impact an economy already in bad shape?
“These sanctions are not aimed at the Iranian people,” said the US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, in the Security Council session where the new resolution was passed. “These sanctions are as tough as they are smart and precise.”  Targeting banks, shipping lines and companies which help the government’s nuclear and missile programmes,…
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British ambassador escapes Yemen attack
Evidence suggests al-Qaida was behind the failed suicide bomb attack on the British ambassador to Yemen, says Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.
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How tough talk at the UN may have eased Falkland tensions
Sarah Smith blogs from New York on how Jorge Taiana’s meeting at the United Nations may offer a pause from Argentina’s strong language over the Falkland Islands.
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Tony Blair at the Iraq inquiry: the analysis
As the dust settles on Tony Blair’s “no regrets” statement, just how will his evidence at the Iraq inquiry be remembered in the history books? Channel 4 News looks at his answers.