Alex Thomson
Syria: why this is not the start of World War Three
As the number of countries embroiled in the Syria conflict rises, it is easy to think the situation could well spiral out of control.
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Channel 4 News wins International Emmy for News
The material, shot by Syrian film-maker Waad Al-Kateab, featured both unprecedented documentation of the turmoil in the city’s final hospital, as well as the human stories of those who stayed during the siege.
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Channel 4 News, Thur 10 Aug
An unusual example of what is becoming an alarmingly usual type of crime. On average 7 hate crimes an hour, every hour. That’s according to the police who have recorded big spikes first after Brexit and now after the string of terror attacks. They also believe that these numbers could be higher still if all…
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Channel 4 News, Wed 09 Aug
After days and days of build-up North Korea and the United States have now bluntly threatened each other with nuclear catastrophe. Kim Jong Un threatened the US base at Guam with “enveloping fire”. Donald Trump threatened fire and fury like the world has never seen. An eerie echo of how Truman threatened Japan in 1945.
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How does Fake News make you feel?
Were Americans more likely to believe negative stories about Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, whether or not they were true?
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Fake news: the far right in Hungary
The challenge: finding the truth in a sea of disinformation, sorting facts from alternative facts, when the leader of the free world tweets in angry capitals, when journalists can’t even ask questions without their own integrity being questioned.
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Zika virus ‘spreading explosively’ says world health expert
The director-general of the World Health Organisation warns that possible links between the Zika virus and babies with abnormally small heads are causing “extremely high” levels of concern.
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Cheers and hugs in Paris as world signs up to climate deal
Almost every country in the world has signed up to the “historic” agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
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Revealed: the secret world of Cold War Britain
The Kray twins, Bond-style spy capers, scandalous MPs and the threat of imminent nuclear destruction all feature in previously classified documents from the 1950s released by the National Archives.
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Alex Thomson
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Rebekah Brooks returns as Murdoch newspaper chief
Rebekah Brooks is appointed chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, a year after being cleared of phone hacking charges.
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Mass doping claims shake world of athletics
More than a third of medals at Olympics and World Championships won by athletes who had suspicious drug tests, according to reports.
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World’s first malaria vaccine one step closer
The world’s first malaria vaccine has been approved by the European Medicines Agency and is set to be used in developing countries within a few years.
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Women’s football: after the World Cup, what next?
Attendances at women’s football matches are soaring after the World Cup success of England’s women’s team, and women across the country are keen to play. But can the sport maintain its momentum?
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Jon Snow
Two terrorists who shocked the world
The world must focus on the true factors behind the brutal terrorist attacks that killed 66 people in Tunisia and Kuwait last week.
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Matt Frei
After Greece, can the EU remain the world’s most popular club?
Greece may only represent a fraction of Europe’s economy. But in everything else that can’t be easily measured by the IMF or ECB, it represents to much more.
