Gary Gibbon
G20: eurozone for starters, dinner and pud.
Gary Gibbon blogs on what will be a eurozone dominated G20.
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Don’t call me an oligarch: Alexander Lebedev in his own words
Alexander Lebedev comes to the Channel 4 News studio to discuss Russia, democracy and the morality of wealth. He even had some words on the advisability of tax evasion by the rich.
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Is the eurozone hitting world growth?
World leaders at the G20 meeting in Mexico are queuing up to tell the eurozone its problems are beginning to hurt them. But are their problems home-grown?
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Syria weapons ship ‘turned back’ off Scottish coast
On the day the US and Russia call for an end to Syrian violence, a cargo ship believed to be carrying Russian-made attack helicopters to Syria turns back in British waters.
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Egypt on knife-edge between democracy and revolt
Jonathan Rugman on how the army and the Islamists are uneasy but unavoidable bedfellows in Egypt’s future democracy.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
G20 meets – but no great hopes of progress
Rather like England at the Euros, expectations at the G20 summit in Mexico are pretty low.
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Supercomputer milestone for IBM’s Sequoia
A computer that will form a key part of President Obama’s nuclear security agenda is ranked the most powerful computing system on the list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
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Egypt’s military clings to power despite vote
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.
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Jon Snow
Dreams and nightmares in Athens
“The chanting was amongst the most obscene I’ve ever heard. In short, Angela Merkel was being invited to put the entire Euro crisis up her posterior.”
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Syrian rebels ‘kill 80 government soldiers’
At least 80 Syrian soldiers have been killed by rebels over the weekend, according to an activist group. The violence comes as Alex Thomson visits the villages blamed for the Houla massacre.
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Syria heading for ‘all-out’ civil war, says peace envoy
Syria is tilting closer towards “all-out” civil war, international envoy Kofi Annan says, as eight are killed in Lebanon in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Assad.
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Ankara is the key to a breakthrough in Syria
Which world capital is most likely to provide a breakthrough in the global response to the violence in Syria? Some would say Moscow, but I am plumping for Ankara.
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Fewer traffic wardens – but tickets every five seconds
Motorists were last year issued with a parking ticket every five seconds across the UK, latest figures reveal.
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UN Security Council ‘unfit for purpose’, says Amnesty
The UN Security Council is “tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose”, human rights charity Amnesty International concludes in its annual report.
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Alex Thomson
‘It was the boss, not me…’
“A real and substantial concern existed as to the genuineness of his offer to purchase and as to his motives.”
