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Russian Chechnya: Grozny rocked in overnight gun attack
A fierce shootout broke out overnight on Wednesday in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Rebels stormed the city firing from cars in a deadly attack that is thought to have killed more than 10 people.
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Politkovskaya murder suspect held in Chechnya
A man suspected of being the mastermind behind the 2006 killing of prominent Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya is arrested after five years on the run.
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‘Chechnya’s bin Laden’ killed by Russian troops
Russian security forces have killed al-Qaeda’s envoy to Chechnya four days after Osama bin Laden was shot dead in Pakistan. Channel 4 News understands he had visited Pakistan in the past few months.
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Young Chechens take up arms against Russia in Ukraine
Many different groups are being pulled into the war in Ukraine.
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FactCheck: How Vladimir Putin fights
From Chechnya to Georgia, Syria to Ukraine – these are Russia’s tactics.
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FactCheck: how many more Kremlin critics have died suspiciously?
On 1 November 2006 Alexander Litvinenko, an former officer with Russia’s FSB intelligence agency now living in London, collapsed after drinking tea with an ex-colleague, Andrei Lugovoi. Litvinenko died three weeks later from what doctors eventually diagnosed as poisoning. He had drunk tea spiked with a lethal dose of Polonium-210, a highly radioactive isotope. Today,…
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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev sentenced to death
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev is sentenced to death for the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured hundreds more.
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From Beirut to Brixton: war photographer on election trail
American photojournalist Stanley Greene has documented conflict, violence and human disasters across the world for over 25 years. Channel 4 News asked him to capture the battle for Number 10.
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Cage: human rights advocates or apologists for terror?
A Muslim group is under fire after claiming that Mohammed Emwazi or ‘Jihadi John’ turned to violence after being harassed by the British security services. What do we know about Cage?
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Suspect ‘admits involvement in Nemtsov killing’
A man detained on suspicion of murdering the prominent Putin critic Boris Nemtsov has told investigators he was involved, a Russian judge says.
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Boston Marathon bomb Tsarnaev trial: what you need to know
Boston is reliving some of its worst memories as the the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets under way in the United States.
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What does Putin want? The key questions
With Vladimir Putin meeting Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande in Moscow to discuss the Ukraine conflict, what is driving the Russian president, what is he seeking, and will he get it?
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Two Birmingham men plead guilty to Syria jihad
Two men plead guilty to travelling to Syria to join al-Qaeda militants, after they were turned in to police by their worried parents. Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni reports.
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How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine’s power vacuum
In the new Ukrainian government politicians linked to the far-right have taken posts from deputy prime minister to head of defence. We profile the nationalists filling the power vacuum.
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President Putin threatens to ‘annihilate’ bus bomb terrorist
Russia will retaliate, Putin tells the terrorists behind the deadly bus and train bombs in Volgograd. “Annihilation” awaits those who threaten Russia or the Winter Olympics, the president says.
