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Palestinian prisoners agree deal to end hunger strike
More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Israeli jails have agreed to end their protest following negotiations.
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Spy who thwarted airline bomb plot ‘was British’
A double agent allegedly recruited by MI5 and MI6 was a British passport holder, according to American media reports.
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: who are they?
Channel 4 News looks at the al-Qaeda group in the Arabian Peninsula linked to explosives found on two cargo planes, and Public Enemy No 1 for the UK intelligence services, Anwar al-Awlaki.
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‘No simple solution’ to underwear bomb threat
US officials say the discovery of a plot involving an improved “underwear bomb” shows militants are determined to build bombs that can pass through airport security.
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The gulf between western and jihadi thinking
The publication online of documents seized at Osama bin Laden’s house underlines the gulf between western and jihadi thinking.
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Can fragmented al-Qaeda capitalise on instability?
The question now is will al-Qaeda, with its new North African leadership, be able to capitalise on the politcal instability which follows revolution?
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A day at the races
Channel 4 News foreign correspondent, Jonathan Miller, gives a personal account of his and colleagues’ recent arrest, detention and deportation from Bahrain.
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How rickets is making a comeback
As a couple call for an inquiry into the failure to diagnose their son’s rickets, which they say led to his death, Channel 4 News examines whether there is enough awareness of its symptoms.
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Kofi Annan urges Syria to comply with his peace plan
Claims by the Syrian regime to have pulled troops out of some cities are disputed by international critics as UN envoy Kofi Annan urges the Assad regime to comply with his peace plan.
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Palestinian poet wins deportation appeal
Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah wins an appeal against deportation from the UK, but a Jewish group has reacted with disappointment at the decision.
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Israel bans Günter Grass after controversial poem
Israel has declared the Nobel Prize winning poet Günter Grass persona non grata – after he published a work accusing Israel of posing a threat to world peace.
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Archbishop attacks ‘downgrade’ of religious education
As Pope Benedict delivers his traditional message in Rome calling for peace, the Archbishop of Canterbury uses his last Easter sermon to attack what he calls a move to downgrade religious education.
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‘Young Muslims defied elders to vote for Galloway’
George Galloway sweeps to a shock victory in the Bradford West by-election, and local people say the win was inspired, in part, by young Muslims going against their Labour-supporting elders.
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Army fires on Damascus suburbs – Syrian opposition
Syrian opposition groups say the army has been shelling the Damascus suburbs of Irbin and Harasta amid reports of several military offensives.
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Egypt Christians insecure after Shenouda's death
The death of His Most Blessed Beatitude Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Shenouda III comes at a perilous time for Egypt’s Christian minority.