Jon Snow
Ian Paisley, one bride, and four political enemies
It was the mid-1970s. In my taxi, alongside Ian Paisley, I’d got a clean sweep of some of Northern Ireland’s most hostile political rivals.
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Who matters? 300,000 petition to save ‘Ebola dog’
With more than 3,400 people dead in west Africa and 7,500 infected in the latest Ebola outbreak, 300,000 people sign a petition demanding action… to save an infected dog.
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Jon Snow
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Gary Gibbon
Paisley’s death revives memories of sectarian Scotland
Ian Paisley’s death comes the day before an Orange Order march in Edinburgh. Coupled with Nigel Farage’s visit to Scotland tonight, it’s not the grid the Better Together campaign would want.
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Northern Ireland’s Ian Paisley dies, aged 88
The former Northern Ireland first minister’s death was announced by his wife. Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Fein, said his working relationship with Paisley had developed into a friendship.
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Revd Ian Paisley: from defiance to compromise
A dominant presence in British politics for half a century, the Reverend Ian Paisley has died aged 88. He was a party leader, an MP and an MEP, and went on to become NI’s first minister in 2007.
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The royal births that changed British history
Some say the news of a second baby for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge could save the Union. Only a few royal births can claim to have altered the course of a country’s history.
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Little Belgium is Europe’s largest exporter of jihadis
Despite Belgium’s small size, per capita it is sending the most jihadis from Europe to Syria. Its experience may teach the UK about the recruitment and ‘rescue’ of jihadis.
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Gary Gibbon
Independence, ghosts and ‘Stormont Scotland’
Prof Sir Tom Devine believes that if the yes side win, it will be thanks to something that was for decades unimaginable: Catholics voting for independence.
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Hong Kong protesters have 'Beijing's tentacles' in sight
In a mass demonstration in Hong Kong on Tuesday, protesters are hoping their Beijing-based masters get the “message” and leave them alone.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Karbala’s holy shrines, under threat from Isis
It was all too easy to imagine the carnage and devastation if the extremists of Isis try to carry out their threat to attack the most holy place in Shia Islam.
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Paul Mason
This Happy Breed: what the heck are British values?
Like Michael Gove, I think there are such things as “British values”. It’s just that I probably won’t agree with him on what they are.
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Ireland shock over 800 babies ‘in septic tank’
Ireland has been rocked this week as another horrific scandal linked to the Catholic church emerges in Galway, where a mass grave with the bodies of 800 children was uncovered.
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‘Descent into terror’: Northern Ireland’s worst year
The arrest of Gerry Adams over Jean McConville’s death has put 1972 in the spotlight again. Channel 4 News speaks to author Susan McKay and revisits the worst year of the north of Ireland’s conflict.
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Who was Jean McConville, one of N.Ireland’s ‘disappeared’?
The arrest of Gerry Adams brings the murder of Jean McConville into the spotlight over 40 years after her death. Channel 4 News looks at the killing which has cast a shadow over Sinn Fein’s leader.
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Teenager charged with murder of Leeds teacher
The Crown Prosecution Service charges a 15-year-old boy with the murder of Ann Maguire, who was stabbed to death at Corpus Christi Catholic College. He will appear at Leeds youth court on 1 May.
