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Nuclear policy: hypocrisy and inevitability?
Sixty-eight years ago today America detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb at its Trinity testing site in New Mexico. Today the most intriguing aspect of the nuclear debate is that it is so low-key.
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Extreme violence at the weekend in which 83 died, calls for a mass march and now a meeting between the ousted former president and a key EU figure – what is happening in Egypt and what is next?
Sixty-eight years ago today America detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb at its Trinity testing site in New Mexico. Today the most intriguing aspect of the nuclear debate is that it is so low-key.
Gunmen shoot dead a Coptic Christian priest in Egypt’s lawless Northern Sinai in what could be the first sectarian attack since the military overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi.
Egypt ousts its first democratically elected president – but was it a coup or a revolution, and where did ex-President Morsi, now in military custody, go wrong?
An Islamist coalition, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, urges its supporters to take to the streets and protest against a military coup that ousted Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi.
President Morsi is ousted as Egypt’s president, and the army announces a temporary transitional period and new elections “to establish trust, peace and stability for the people”.
Tahrir Square is once again filled with tens of thousands of protesters. But why are historians not surprised? Channel 4 News looks at the rocky road to revolution.
Clerics warn of a “civil war”, and the army says it may have to intervene, as opponents and supporters of President Mohamed Mursi clash violently across Egypt.
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff pledges urgent reforms for the country, following widespread violence and vandalism that have marred the country’s largest protest in 20 years.
Despite once handing out fir trees as wedding presents Tayyip Erdogan now risks losing further control of Istanbul after riots sparked by an environmental row.
His opponents call him the sultan, and say he is intent on transforming Turkey’s secular state into an Islamic fiefdom. But amid widespread protests, which way will Turkey’s prime minister turn?
EXCLUSIVE: Hamas has not betrayed the Assad regime by relocating from Syria to Qatar and opposes foreign intervention in Syria, says Khaled Meshaal.
This article was first written for The Independent in relation to Unreported World on Channel 4 at 7.30pm Friday May 24th or on 4OD
Earlier plans to ban London military personnel from wearing uniform in public are overturned as the Cobra committee rules “the best way to defeat terrorists was to continue with normal life”.
Three LulzSec members are sentenced to between 20 and 32 months for hacking offences. But from the beginning, the Lulzsec group stood in stark contrast to the secretive profiles of other hackers.