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Princess Beatrice Royal Wedding hat for sale on eBay
Entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne has opened the bidding for Princess Beatrice’s Royal Wedding hat on eBay at £5,000 – but Channel 4 News has a solution if that’s out of your price range.
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Pakistan: battling floods and the Taliban
Channel 4 News visits the Swat valley to hear from children fighting to be educated against a backdrop of Taliban violence and natural disaster.
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Iraq inquiry: foresight a bigger problem than hindsight
Channel 4 News international editor Lindsey Hilsum reviews Tony Blair’s evidence to the Iraq inquiry and recalls her own experiences in Iraq as the invasion became inevitable.
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Mexico missing: links to organ trafficking
Following Nick Martin’s report on the missing girls of Mexico, El Paso Times journalist Diana Washington Valdez writes for Channel 4 News on the horrifying secrets of Juarez.
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Sri Lanka execution video ‘appears authentic’
Sri Lankan officials branded as fake the video of alleged executions by Sri Lankan Armed Forces broadcast by Channel 4 News, but a UN investigation said it “appears authentic”.
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Shocking return to northern Kenya after 20 years
In December 1982, I moved to Kenya. For three years I worked for UNICEF, before becoming a journalist based in Nairobi. Since I left in 1989, I’ve visited every year or so, but this is the first time I’ve been back to the arid north where Samburu, Turkana, Pokot and other people herd their cattle,…
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A doctor's blog from Kenya
We’ve received the following posting from Dr Catherine Maternowska, who works in the Mombasa hospital featured in last month’s film on child sex abuse in Kenya. The hope among the hospital’s staff is that the film – and Catherine’s blog – will promote awareness, both at home and abroad, of the problems Kenyan children face.…
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The untold suffering of Kenya's children
Kenya’s beaches are the stuff holiday brochures are made of – mile after mile of glistening white sand, kissed by equatorial sun. Tourism is a major money spinner for one of the world’s poorest countries, but Kenya’s tropical paradise hides a dark secret. We have been on a harrowing journey – from nightclubs where European…
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Greeting the litany of Afghanistan's casualties
Nima Elbagir guest blogs from Kandahar hospital, Afghanistan. When the Obama administrations’ then nominee for the top job in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal faced the Senate Armed Services committee in early June his message was unequivocal – civilian casualties were the major operational issue. “This is a critical point. It may be the critical point.…
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Inside an Afghan hospital
Channel 4 News reporter Nima Elbagir went to Afghanistan’s Mirwais hospital to uncover the civilian casualties caught up in the fight between Nato and the Taliban.
