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Matt Frei
Why did Susan Rice pull out of consideration as America’s next secretary of state? Was she too strident, too forceful – or did she simply fail to play the Machiavellian game of Washington politics?
Massachusetts senator John Kerry is almost certain to be nominated as America’s next secretary of state: a post he has wanted for years. Is he the right man for the job?
Susan Rice, the combative US ambassador to the United Nations, has withdrawn her name for consideration as the next secretary of state.
Elizabeth Price wins the Turner Prize for her film which blends 1960s pop with footage from a 1979 fire, but says her career would have been “unimaginable” without public support for the arts.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells a joint session of the US congress that Iran “will always be an enemy of America”, as he derides a proposed nuclear deal with the regime.
Pressure grows on the US to send weapons to the Ukrainian military following recent defeats to separatist rebels who it is widely believed are being armed by Russia.
Russia accuses the Ukrainian interim leadership of “terrorist methods” and says western backing for the rebellion is an “aberration”.
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is admitted to a hospital in New York with a blood clot linked to the concussion she suffered when she fainted with a stomach virus earlier this month.
Syrian rebels seize posts on the Iraqi and Turkish borders amid failing diplomacy and fears the government will turn to chemical weapons to stop an uprising that has already killed thousands.
The UN says as many as 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours to escape the bloody uprising, and Syria’s intelligence chief dies of wounds sustained in a bomb blast.
Lindsey Hilsum
Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the options for dealing with the violence in Syria
The UN Secretary General has been unanimously approved by the UN’s General Assembly for a second 5 year term.