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Budget LIVE BLOG: news, video and analysis
• Top rate of tax cut to 45p from April next year • Child benefit cut-off point rises to £50K • Are personal allowances changes a ‘granny tax’? Read Gary Gibbon’s blog: 50p tax – hero to zero? 13.47: Ed Miliband compares the government to Downton Abbey, a story of the “out of touch rich”.…
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‘Hester is relatively low-paid banker’ – Hampton
Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Philip Hampton tells Channel 4 News RBS boss Stephen Hester is “low paid” compared to others in the banking sector, but admits pay generally is “very high”.
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370,000 migrants on benefits
Over 370,000 migrants who came to Britain to work, study or visit, are now claiming work-related benefits, new government figures show. Channel 4 News Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long reports.
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Osborne plans boost for parents amid economy gloom
Working parents and businesses will benefit most from George Osborne’s autumn statement, as the chancellor tries to boost the ailing UK economy. Channel 4 News looks at what to watch out for.
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Default looms as Senate blocks debt plan
Efforts on Capitol Hill to find a deal to allow the US to raise its $14.3tr debt limit failed last night when the Democrat-led Senate rejected a Republican bill passed by the House of Representatives.
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Obama ‘running out of time’ on solving debt crisis
With just days to go before the deadline to resolve the US debt crisis, President Barack Obama has warned that Congress is “running out of time” on reaching an agreement to avoid default.
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Guantanamo detainee’s ‘nuclear hellstorm’ warning
Al-Qaeda will launch a “nuclear hellstorm” on the west if Osama bin Laden is captured, according to Wikileaks files detailing the interrogation of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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Petraeus: Taliban ‘will be back’ in Afghanistan
After a period of relative quiet over winter months, U.S. General David Petraeus tells Channel 4 News he expects a ‘spring offensive’ from the Taliban but insists withdrawal plans are on track.
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US hearings into ‘rising threat’ from homegrown Muslims
His critics have branded him a “Joe McCarthy for the age of terror”. Republican Congressman Peter King is holding hearings into what he sees as the rising terror threat from American Muslims.
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Cleanup begins as details of Mubarak’s flight revealed
As protesters clean up after the overthrow of President Mubarak, Lindsey Hilsum reveals how the general now in charge persuaded him to go.
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Egypt: protests spread as Mubarak holds on
A senior aide to President Mubarak tells Lindsey Hilsum in Cairo that “the revolution won” and the President no longer has power. But the protesters pouring onto the streets appear to disagree.
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Can Obama retell the American story?
In his State of the Union address, President Obama tried to rediscover the political narrative of his presidency – that America can be great again, writes Channel 4 News sub-editor Felicity Spector.
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Arizona shooting: heroine Patricia Maisch feels ‘humbled’
A 61-year-old woman who helped stop the Tucson gunman causing further deaths tells Channel 4 News she feels “humbled” after being praised by President Obama for wrestling ammunition from the killer.
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Arizona shooting ignites debate over US political vitriol
The shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has sparked a debate over the rhetoric of US politics, but a former Republican presidential hopeful tells Channel 4 News there is “no connection”.
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CIA drone strikes: a legal war?
A UN senior official tells Channel 4 News if CIA personnel are operating drone strikes in Pakistan, they could be prosecuted for murder and war crimes if humanitarian laws are violated.
