Jon Snow
The turn of the worm
I have been scratching my head to think of any other 87-year-old who could have held an audience of over 4,000 in his thrall for an hour and a half as Jimmy Carter did last night on London’s South Bank.
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US gathers its allies to put pressure on Iran
The US and Saudi Arabia are to take Iran to the UN Security Council for its alleged role in a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador, as Washington Correspondent Matt Frei reports.
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What’s happening with my BlackBerry?
After three days of BlackBerry chaos, Channel 4 News answers the key questions still being asked by millions of the mobile phone firm’s customers.
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Questions over Iran’s role in assassination plot
As the US blames Iran for plotting to kill the Saudi Arabia ambassador for Washington, a Chatham House expert casts doubt over the allegations.
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Jon Snow
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Liam Fox quizzed about friend’s access to MoD
Labour MPs quiz Defence Secretary Liam Fox about his friendship with a man who allegedly claims to be one of his advisers and has visited him at the Ministry of Defence on many occasions.
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Doctor jailed in Bahrain claims he was tortured
A Bahraini doctor sentenced to 15 years in prison after treating an injured demonstrator tells Channel 4 News he was tortured after witnessing “the most atrocious attacks on innocent protesters”.
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Palestinian Authority bids for UN statehood
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asks the United Nations to recognise a state for his people.
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Abbas tells UN: ‘This is a moment of truth’
After submitting a bid for UN recognition, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calls for a ‘Palestinian spring’ – but his Israeli counterpart tells Palestinians to recognise Israel.
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Matt Frei
Lose, lose for Obama – and Palestinians too
Matt Frei mulls over why the Americans have put the boot into Palestinian statehood.
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Obama warns Palestinians: no short cut to statehood
US President Barack Obama makes a last-ditch attempt to head off the Palestinians’ bid for statehood at the United Nations, saying there is “no short cut” to solving the decades-long conflict.
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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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Lasting legacies and passing tragedies?
It has become quite fashionable to say 911 didn’t really change the world. A rash of commentary has recently argued that the decade of Al Qaeda while bloody and terrible will not have the future consequences we may once have feared. The argument runs : the world changed, the centre of economic gravity changed, the role and power of America in the world changed but much of it happened regardless of the “war on terror” and the clash of civilisations will never quite happen – especially now Bin Laden is dead. This makes for clever columns but seems ultimately rather unhelpful. The need to understand what has changed seems greater than ever before anyone claims victory and moves on, just because the troops are coming home from Afghanistan.
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Q and A: Is al-Qaeda still a threat?
A leading expert on the terror group tells Channel 4 News why al-Qaeda is in decline – and where the next 9/11-style plot could come from.
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How Channel 4 News reported 9/11
First a newsflash, then the seven o’clock programme and a special extra bulletin: how Channel 4 News covered the worst terror strikes in history, and Jon Snow recalls his visit to Ground Zero.
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Turkey expels Israeli ambassador over flotilla blockade
Turkey has said it is expelling top-level Israeli diplomats in protest at the Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship that killed nine Turks. The UN report found the raid legal but excessive.
