China defrosts; visas rewritten
George Osborne was meant to be in Beijing on his own, not sharing the stage with Boris Johnson. Why the double act? Gary Gibbon investigates.
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Well publicised fears that thousands of Bulgarians and Romanians will head to the UK are not backed up by the pattern of migration in the past.
Sir Paul McCartney has written to Vladimir Putin to calling for the release of a group of Greenpeace activists, arrested after a protest at an oil drilling rig.
US intelligence services allegedly monitored Pope Benedict and other Vatican officials’ phone calls, according to the Italian magazine Panorama.
The German government has received information suggesting the United States may have monitored the chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone and are demanding an immediate clarification.
Charges of piracy levelled at 30 Greenpeace activists who led a protest against Arctic drilling are dropped and replaced with lesser charges of hooliganism.
George Osborne was meant to be in Beijing on his own, not sharing the stage with Boris Johnson. Why the double act? Gary Gibbon investigates.
After arriving late for last night’s G20 dinner, President Obama may have been cheered by some of what followed – apart from Argentinian President Kirchner’s 25-minute speech on her country’s past conflicts with the US.
Why did President Barack Obama turn up 30 minutes late for dinner at the G20 last night? A snub to President Vladimir Putin’s decision to put Syria on the menu for discussion for dinner?
Ostensibly this G20 meeting is all about world economic recovery, but Syria is at the front of most minds and there is scant agreement on what to do.
G20 leaders voice their concerns about a military strike on Syria, as Russia and Iran warn the US not to take action against the Assad regime.
UN inspectors prepare to visit the site of last week’s suspected chemical weapon attack outside Damascus, as President Bashar al-Assad warns that any US intervention will fail.
It’s been a busy week for Britain’s politicians – watching the tennis and cricket in the sunshine. But mixing politics with sport isn’t always a winner. Channel 4 News takes to the pitch.
The leaders of the G8 nations gather to attend the summit in Northern Ireland on Monday, with Syria’s crisis dominating the agenda.
With a Eurosceptic Tory MP topping the private member’s bill ballot, the government’s referendum bill looks likely to jump at least the first of its parliamentary hurdles.
As David Cameron and Angela Merkel meet for talks, the prime minister and German chancellor will be striving for warmer relations than their predecessors Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl.