Search results for ‘world war II’
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Kissinger warns of biggest change since WWII
Henry Kissinger warns Channel 4 News that if an Islamist government replaces Mubarak in Egypt that it would be a “fundamental change to the kind of world we have known since world war two”.
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Media ‘killed’ England’s World Cup 2018 bid
The head of England’s failed attempt to host the World Cup says FIFA bosses told him the media killed the bid. Channel 4 News reporter Keme Nzerem says team England was either lied to or naïve.
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World Cup bid ‘is in the bag for England’
England’s World Cup 2018 bid team has been “assured that it’s in the bag,” by Fifa Vice President Jack Warner’s aides, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Security strategy warns of terror and cyber-attacks
Terrorism and cyber-attacks are top of the list of national security threats in what ministers are calling “an age of uncertainty”.
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World’s largest wind farm opens off Kent coast
The Thanet wind farm’s 100 turbines are expected to produce enough renewable power for more than 200,000 homes. But science correspondent Julian Rush says the UK still faces big power challenges.
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Pope Benedict will see a different UK to John Paul II
Catholic commentator Michael Walsh writes for Channel 4 News on how Pope Benedict will visit a very different Britain to that seen by his predecessor Pope John Paul II in 1982.
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Iraq inquiry: the failure of post-war planning
Good morning once again from the cosy confines of the QEII conference centre in London where the Iraq inquiry gets under way shortly. Yesterday’s evidence was very much of a military bent taking us through pre-combat planning to the fall of Baghdad. With the soldiers’ war “won” – at least as seen from Washington…
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Iraq inquiry: what did Number 10 know on the eve of war?
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger says there has been a flurry of excitement among journalists as details emerge about intelligence concerning Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons plan, received on the eve of the conflict led by Tony Blair and George W Bush.
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Iraq inquiry: what did Number 10 know on the eve of war?
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger says there has been a flurry of excitement among journalists as details emerge about intelligence concerning Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons plan, received on the eve of the conflict led by Tony Blair and George W Bush.
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Harrison Ford hospitalised after plane crash
US actor Harrison Ford suffers serious but non life-threatening injuries when he crash-landed his World War II-era airplane on a golf course in Los Angeles on Thursday, after losing engine power.
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Dambusters bombers in the sky for anniversary
RAF bombers old and new, including the Lancaster bomber, perform flypasts at Derwent reservoir in Derbyshire to mark the 70th anniversary of the World War II Dambusters operation.
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British spy who was an Indian princess
After a long campaign, a statue honouring the British-Indian agent Noor Inayat Khan, who was captured in France during World War II and shot in Germany by the Nazis, has been unveiled.
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PG Wodehouse suffered ‘mental pain’ after Nazi broadcasts
Newly-declassified MI5 files reveal how PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, worried about being paid to do broadcasts for Nazi radio during World War II.
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Prose on the Afghan frontline
Prose on the Afghan frontline, by Lindsey Hilsum: I had a book of World War II poetry with me while in Helmand with British troops.
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Where did the two metre coronavirus rule come from?
One of the few constants during the coronavirus pandemic has been the edict to stay two metres away from other people. But where did the rule come from, and what evidence is it based on?
