'Culture, history, suffering' – the heartfelt music of Paco Peña
Spanish guitar maestro Paco Peña is fusing blues with flamenco in his latest musical extravaganza, coming to London this summer.
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David Cameron says there is a danger from people who “quietly condone” groups such as Islamic State. The prime minister made the comments at a security conference in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Spanish guitar maestro Paco Peña is fusing blues with flamenco in his latest musical extravaganza, coming to London this summer.
A new UN report says one in every 122 people is either a refugee or seeking asylum. It says if this number of people were a country, it would be the world’s 24th biggest.
Two fathers, whose wives are feared to have taken their children to Syria, break down as they beg their families to come home.
The killing near Benghazi of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, al-Qaeda’s top man in north Africa, is unlikely to quell the rising jihadi movement in Libya and the surrounding region.
British Muslim convert Thomas Evans is reported to have died fighting for the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab in Kenya.
Twelve members of a family from Bradford, including nine children, are feared to be en route to Syria. The family had been under police “surveillance”, Channel 4 News understands.
A teenager from West Yorkshire is believed to have become Britain’s youngest suicide bomber. The so-called Islamic State say 17-year-old Talha Asmal blew himself up in northern Iraq.
Barrel bombs, indiscriminate weapons responsible for the deaths of 11,000 civilians in the Syrian civil war, are the increasing weapons of choice of the Assad regime.
A man is sentenced to 16 years in prison after becoming the first person in the UK to be prosecuted under forced marriage laws.
Why did Greece collapse and Ireland survive? First, because the Irish crisis was a banking crisis. And in Greece you can’t impose austerity and hope modernise at the same time.
Turkey’s AK party has lost its majority at a general election after 13 years in government – a blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was seeking to cement his grip on power.
HMS Bulwark carries out another rescue mission in the Mediterranean, rescuing at least 500 migrants found in the sea off Libya.
A senior Kurdish fighter has asked the US to come and collect a minor Hollywood actor who went to Syria to fight Isis – warning that if they don’t he is danger.
The British actor Michael Enright, who starred alongside Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, is in Syria fighting Isis – and he says he is prepared to die for the cause.