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FactCheck: Does Scotland look bonnie to foreign investors?
FactCheck looks at how much foreign investment Scotland attracts, and asks some of the companies investing if they are worried about the prospect of an independent Scotland.
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FactCheck: Are foreign criminals being booted out faster than ever?
After Theresa May’s catgate, you would think MP’s might tread more carefully on the thorny issue of immigration. Less than a month ago Ms May was complaining that all too often foreign criminals are allowed to stay in the UK – and for the most ludicrous reasons. Yet today, immigration minister Damian Green said the government is removing foreign criminals quicker than ever. So what’s it to be – are they staying or going?
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Britain’s foreign aid budget: money well spent?
Britain donates more in foreign aid than ever before, with a budget set to eclipse that of the Home Office within four years. As Liam Fox raises concerns, Channel 4 News looks at where the money goes.
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Morocco blast: 15 dead ‘including foreigners’
French newspaper reports say one Briton was among the 15 people killed in a massive explosion at a tourist cafe in the Jamaa el-Fna marketplace in Marrakesh.
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Libya: British military officers to advise rebels
Sending British military officers to advise rebels in Libya does not break UN rules, an international relations expert tells Channel 4 News. But a senior MP warns of parallels with the Vietnam war.
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Libyan foreign minister quits Gaddafi, arrives in UK
The Foreign Office confirms that one of the most senior figures in Gaddafi’s government, the Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, has quit his post and is now in the UK.
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Foreign student visas to be slashed by a quarter
Theresa May announces the Government is cracking down hard on sham colleges and bogus courses – but Labour says plans to cut visas for foreign students are ‘a con’.
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Foreigners flee as radiation fear grips Japan
Fears of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant are causing trauma and travel chaos across tsunami-stricken Japan as foreign governments tell their nationals to evacuate.
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Egypt diary: Obama's big foreign policy test
When President Obama appeared on American TV sets just before 7pm on Tuesday he talked about “difficult days ahead”. And he wasn’t just talking about difficult days in Egypt, blogs Sarah Smith.
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Egypt church bombing involved ‘foreign elements’
Egypt’s president has called for calm between the country’s christians and Muslims after at least 17 people were killed in a bomb attack on a church. Officials are blaming foreign-backed terrorists.
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Former MI5 officer: Afghan WikiLeaks ‘risk lives’
Exclusive: a former MI5 officer tells Channel 4 News Afghanistan civilians named in the WikiLeaks war logs and their families could be “in great danger”.
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UKIP Manifesto 2010: expelling foreign criminals
UKIP Manifesto gets it wrong on the claim that the UK can’t expel foreign criminals from the another EU country.
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‘There are double standards here’ – Conservative Peer on visas not being offered to Gaza’s orphans
We spoke to Conservative peer and former Foreign Office adviser, Baroness Arminka Helic, herself a refugee, who’s been pushing the government to set up a Ukraine-style visa scheme for Gazans orphaned by the war.
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Ethiopia food crisis – UK must work ‘very closely’ with East African nation, says MP
We put the question of UNRWA funding to the foreign office minister Andrew Mitchell when I spoke to him from our studio earlier.
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Earthquake victims in Turkey need shelter, blankets and food says Red Crescent Turkey
The Foreign Office has pledged to help Turkey with the deployment tonight of search and rescue specialists, equipment and an Emergency Medical Team.