America struggles with the new global realities
The situation is tragic, messy, ironic and dangerous. And everyone is fumbling to find the right response to the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon calls on Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” to avoid further bloodshed in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
With Israel’s general election due in January, and the Palestinian Authority’s application for UN recognition, the assassination of Hamas’s military chief did not happen in isolation.
William Hague says Hamas bears responsibility for escalating violence in the region, as Israel’s prime minister says the army is prepared for a “significant widening” of its operation.
When the victory celebrations are over, the new US president will face a growing pile of issues to tackle in his foreign policy in-tray. Channel 4 News looks at those likely to be top of the list.
As one of the earliest countries to experience revolution in the Arab Spring, and one of the first to move towards stability, Egypt’s first leader post-Mubarak has been in the international spotlight.
The situation is tragic, messy, ironic and dangerous. And everyone is fumbling to find the right response to the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya.
Thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to support President Mohamed Morsi’s decision to replace his defence minister and army chief while ordering several senior generals to retire.
Egypt launches air strikes near its border with Israel, killing more than 20 suspected Islamic militants blamed for a deadly attack on Egyptian border police, according to reports.
In the final part of his series on fan culture, Andrew McFadyen looks at the role of football – and in particular Cairo’s Al Ahly club – in promoting and defending Egypt’s 2011 revolution.
The consequences of the 2011 Arab uprisings are still being felt. Some countries, like Egypt, appear to be moving towards a democratic settlement, while others, like Syria, are mired in civil war.
Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader once jailed by ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, succeeds him as president of the world’s most populous Arab nation.
Egyptians will have to wait until Sunday afternoon to learn who their new president is, as protesters say they fear the military is attempting to fix the result.
Jonathan Rugman on how the army and the Islamists are uneasy but unavoidable bedfellows in Egypt’s future democracy.
Moves by Egypt’s military to limit the powers of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, likely winner of the presidential election, may yet produce a more democratic Egypt, writes Jonathan Rugman.
‘As is frequently pointed out, the Greeks invented the words “catastrophe” and “crisis”.’