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Christopher Hitchens, writer and polemicist, dies
Christopher Hitchens, whose writings have illuminated political debate in Britain and the US for three decades, has died aged 62. Jonathan Rugman looks back on his life.
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Egypt's best chance of change?
Jonathan Rugman blogs on Egypt’s historic day of change, as people prepare to vote following the downfall of Hosni Mubarak.
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US calls for civilian rule in Egypt as protesters mass
The United States urges the Egyptian military to give way to a civilian government after another day of mass protest saw thousands descend on Tahrir Square. Jonathan Rugman reports from Cairo.
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Repairing the spooks' reputation
MI6 in particular has suffered some hard reputational knocks and doesn’t like it. Mr Hague is trying to shape the debate about it in the media, by giving those who write and comment on it a better idea of how it works, as Jonathan Rugman reports.
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Three months of famine in southern Somalia
The death of one of the world’s worst tyrants on Thursday made it impossible for me to report that we are now three months on since the UN declared a famine in southern Somalia, writes Jonathan Rugman.
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Afghanistan – rose-tinted specs come off at last
The most senior British diplomat working on Afghanistan has given the most damning assessment of the UK’s record in the country that I have heard from a serving official. Jonathan Rugman reports.
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Palestinians bid for statehood
As Palestinian negotiators head to the United Nations to push their bid for formal recognition as a state, Jonathan Rugman reports on Palestinians celebrating in the streets in anticipation.
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Kidnap victim Judith Tebbutt 'taken to Somalia'
Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman blogs on the killing of David Tebbutt and the kidnapping of his wife Judith in Kenya
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Baha Mousa inquiry damning on many levels
Channel 4 News’s Jonathan Rugman finds the report into Baha Mousa’s death critical of the soldiers who abused him, of the British Army, the MoD, and even the regimental padre.
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Army’s ‘appalling’ abuse of Baha Mousa
As an inquiry concludes the Iraqi hotel worker suffered “appalling” abuse at the hands of British soldiers, Channel 4 News’s Jonathan Rugman predicts court martials and civil prosecutions will follow.
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Where is Gaddafi?
Jonathan Rugman looks at where Libyan leader Gaddafi could be – and what could happen next in the fight for control of Tripoli.
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Somalia's families forced to choose between children
Jonathan Rugman blogs from Somalia on the heart-turning decisions some families are having to make as famine threatens the lives of millions of people in east Africa.
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Mogadishu: Caught between famine and war
Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman travels into Mogadishu, to witness thousands of refugees who have risked everything crossing conflict zones to escape famine in the countryside.
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A new generation dying in Somalia's famine
Jonathan Rugman blogs on the appalling famine in Somalia – and what the world can do to help.
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Why Somalia's refugees are not being fed at home
Is America denying food aid to starving Somalis as part of a strategy to beat the al-Shabaab militants of the Horn of Africa? Jonathan Rugman reports on the agonised food politics of Somalia.