Faisal Islam
Market chocoholics: what is driving cocoa mania?
Set against the ephemeral world of dodgy mortgages and adjustable credit, the raw certainty of materials that can be mined, grown or harvested is rather attractive.
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Still struggling to meet the Afghanistan challenge
Nearly a decade after NATO soldiers arrived in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, Alex Thomson analyses how the security challenge remains tough.
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Somalia: 31 killed by al Shabab fighters
Rebel fighters targeting Somali MPs have killed at least 31 people in a suicide attack. Jonathan Rugman reports on what has been described as an “indiscriminate” shoot-out.
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Manila gunman: negotiating under the media's watch
Hostage situation on a tourist bus in Manila: Nick Paton Walsh says it could go either way.
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Living with the Taliban on the Afghan frontline
Channel 4 News has obtained rare film of Taliban fighters on the Afghanistan frontline as Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at what it tells us about the insurgents and their tactics.
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WikiLeaks killings: UK troops face legal challenge
Campaigners have launched a bid to take the MoD to court over alleged civilian killings by British forces in Afghanistan, uncovered by Wikileaks. Channel 4 News has obtained the legal letter.
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Afghanistan: soldiers tell the real war story
A day after 90,000 secret files on the Afghan war were released by Wikileaks, Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh tells the real story of the war on the ground as one soldier says: “I’m getting shot at, blown up, losing friends… I’ve been here four years and nothing has changed.”
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Psychosis, paranoia and death on the Afghan frontline
Nick Paton Walsh is currently embedded with the US Army in southern Afghanistan. We all heard the boom, but didn’t know what it had done. An hour later, it was clear from the sullen faces in the base headquarters, it had meant the worst. The skyline around the 82nd Airborne’s base, COP Winklemann, is a…
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Afghan shootings raise war crimes question
Exclusive: leading lawyer tells Channel 4 News leaked documents about the Shinwar shootings which left over a dozen civilians dead in Afghanistan could indicate “war crimes” committed by US marines.
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WikiLeaks war files: Afghanistan’s hidden war
War as we have never been allowed to see it: WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange speaks to Channel 4 News about his decision to publish 90,000 US military files – the biggest leak of its kind in history.
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WikiLeaks files raise questions over civilian casualties
Channel 4 News analyses WikiLeaks US military “secret” reports which appear to show notable differences between UN and US civilian casualty figures.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange interview
It is one of the biggest security breaches in US military history. The man responsible – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – speaks exclusively to Channel 4 News about the Afghanistan war logs.
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Highway 1, Afghanistan: world's biggest moving target
The only supply route for the war in Afghanistan is perhaps the biggest moving target on earth, where troops, warlords and hired guns run the gauntlet daily, writes Channel 4 News’ Nick Paton Walsh, embedded with US troops – whose hands are tied under ‘courageous restraint’.
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Afghanistan’s biggest moving target
The only supply route for the war in Afghanistan is perhaps the biggest moving target on earth, writes Channel 4 News’s Nick Paton Walsh – embedded with US troops.
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Gary Gibbon
Bloody Sunday: Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein and celebration
Martin McGuinness has snapped out a “no” when questioned after the Saville report publication about whether he was carrying a gun on the day of Bloody Sunday. I was at his evidence sessions in Derry in 2003 and he was repeatedly asked about that. At the time, from memory, I think he replied “rubbish.”