Search results for ‘Zimbabwe’
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It’s a stitch up! Ballot box blues
It is a familiar cry at any vote: it’s been rigged! As accusations of farce are thrown at Zimbabwe’s contest, Channel 4 News looks at a few of the more audacious election heists in recent history.
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UK approves arms sales to human rights abusers
MPs and Amnesty International raise concerns over the UK’s approval of export licences for the sale of arms, worth over £12bn, to countries with questionable human rights records, including Sri Lanka.
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Hugo Chavez – Latin American demagogue with the common touch
The Venezuelan president was a polarising figure – someone who could bait George W Bush on TV while championing the poor and presiding over a unique social experiment in the country he led.
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Pollard inquiry: after Savile, how accountable is the BBC?
The BBC publishes 3,000 pages of documents in a bid to be “open and transparent” about its investigations into the Jimmy Savile scandal – but, as our editor Ben de Pear points out, issues remain.
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2012: The most watched videos of the year
What were you watching in 2012? Channel 4 News counts down the most watched videos of the year – from tales to political intrigue to reports of overseas brutality.
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Top 10: what news were you reading in 2012?
What news has defined 2012? Is it the violence of Syria or the jubilation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games? Channel 4 News counts down the top most viewed stories on our website this year.
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FactCheck Q&A: The shady regimes that still get UK aid
Rwanda will see its aid budget reduced amid allegations it is helping rebels in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Who else gets our money – and are their hands clean?
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Decision to stop Rwanda aid ‘marks start of new era’
The halting of aid to Rwanda is “Britain throwing down the gauntlet”, writes Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller who investigated alleged military interference in Congo for Dispatches on Monday.
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Lord Lawson: ‘Britain is funding Africa’s next tyrant’
Former chancellor Lord Lawson condemns the Conservative-led coalition’s rising aid payments to Rwanda, a country which he says is run by “an unscrupulous monster”, writes Jonathan Miller.
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Indonesia’s tobacco children
Indonesia is in the grip of a smoking epidemic with the proportion of child smokers rising dramatically. Jonathan Miller reports for Channel 4 News ahead of his investigation for Unreported World.
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Web still an untapped resource in developing world
Internet access remains a luxury good in most countries with connections costing almost half of average monthly incomes, according to a global study launched by the web’s inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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Paralympic archive: sailing the world (1981)
In March 1981, ITN went to meet paraplegics Elizabeth and Peter Fordred as they prepared to sail the world – in a boat they had built themselves in landlocked Zimbabwe.
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Should England’s cricket team tour Sri Lanka?
As England’s cricket team sets off for Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear asks whether the tour should be going ahead given the country’s human rights record?
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Win or lose: Republicans face off on Super Tuesday
It is the closest thing America has to a national primary: 10 states, 437 delegates up for grabs. But with the Republicans still so divided, it is unlikely to give anyone a knockout win.
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Goodwin treatment ‘tawdry’, says Darling
Former Chancellor Alistair Darling has branded as “tawdry” the stripping of ex-RBS boss Fred Goodwin’s knighthood and suggested the banker had been singled out.