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US aid officials say the damage caused to the Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian left some areas looking like “nuclear bombs were dropped”.
Dorian, an elegant name for the strongest hurricane ever to hit the Bahamas, has killed at least 20 people and flattened thousands of homes.
Hurricane Dorian continues to batter the Bahamas
Police in the Bahamas search for four men suspected of links to the killing of Briton Gary Vanhoeck, after he was shot by armed robbers.
A fire breaks out aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship on its way to the Bahamas, forcing 2,200 passengers to end their trip early. Passengers were mustered to assembly points, although none was hurt.
The medical watchdog rules that a former British Army doctor failed to protect detainees and acted dishonestly after the death of Iraqi prisoner Baha Mousa, as James Blake reports.
As an inquiry concludes the Iraqi hotel worker suffered “appalling” abuse at the hands of British soldiers, Channel 4 News’s Jonathan Rugman predicts court martials and civil prosecutions will follow.
Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa died in British Army custody after suffering an “appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence” at the hands of soldiers, a public inquiry has concluded.
Channel 4 News’s Jonathan Rugman finds the report into Baha Mousa’s death critical of the soldiers who abused him, of the British Army, the MoD, and even the regimental padre.
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the new threats to the Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari
Lindsey Hilsum celebrates the release from prison in Iran of journalist Maziar Bahari, who worked for Channel 4 News in Tehran during the Iranian elections and who was arrested on 21 June.
Jon Snow
I am at the Renoir cinema in London’s Bloomsbury. My friend and colleague, the Iranian cameraman/director Maziar Bahari, has produced three films and we are there to discuss them: Of Men and Motorcycles, Behind the Wheel of Life, and My City, Pizza.
It’s not just in Kenya where questions around formal apologies and reparations are being asked, it’s a debate happening throughout the Commonwealth. We spoke to Asif Ahmed, the former British High Commissioner to Jamaica and the Bahamas, and Carla Astaphan Chair of St Kitts & Nevis Reparations Committee, who also sits on the Caricom Reparations…
The Welsh Government has announced it will require anyone arriving from Andorra, the Bahamas and Belgium to quarantine for 14 days, as of midnight.
Search and rescue teams are still battling to reach some isolated communities in the Bahamas – cut off by floods and debris in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. 43 people are now known to have died – a figure expected to rise far higher. The British Navy has joined the United Nations and the US…