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‘Down with military rule!’ – Sisi and the realpolitik of today’s Egypt
What do you do when the only person standing up to your worst enemy is a thug and a bully? Not a playground problem but the realpolitik of the Middle East today.
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Four years on from the start of the Syria conflict in March 2011, the battle rages, as more than 200,000 people have died. Channel 4 News takes a look at the most powerful stories from the civil war.
What do you do when the only person standing up to your worst enemy is a thug and a bully? Not a playground problem but the realpolitik of the Middle East today.
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London is a global haven for criminal financial activity – with billions of pounds laundered through British banks each day, according to the head of the UK’s National Crime Agency.
Yemen is currently without a president and a government after Shia rebels took over the capital Sana’a causing ramifications for the region and the US’s war on terror.
Fighters from a Shia militant group are in de facto control of Yemen after seizing the presidential residence overnight, but have stopped short of declaring a full blown coup.
Foreign Secretary signs deal for expanded UK military presence in the Gulf, despite concerns over Bahrain’s human rights record.
An Egyptian court drops charges against ousted leader Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of 239 protesters during a 2011 revolt.
Burkina Faso’s armed forces chief General Honore Traore says that he has taken charge of the west African state after former president Blaise Compaore resigned.
The Italian navy says it has rescued almost 4,000 migrants in the last 48 hours. At least 25 migrants died during the weekend Mediterranean crossings.
As the news channels focused on violence in Gaza and the tragedy of MH17, what else happened? Channel 4 News finds out.
With two years before the presidential election, Hillary Clinton is coy about whether she will run. But the ex-first lady tells all about US policy on Putin: “If he will talk to us, we talk to him.”
Violent insurgency in Iraq is the “predictable” result of the west’s failure to intervene in Syria, not of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Tony Blair declares in a renewed call for military action.
We discovered another side to Qatar, a deeply conservative, authoritarian nation, personified in my mind by the man who stopped his car as we tried to take some pictures in a park.
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