Gary Gibbon
G8/Syria: Obama silent and Cameron light on support
Arming the Syrian rebels: David Cameron is like “a man who drags his friend to the bar only to discover he’s got no money himself to buy a round”.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
A G8 agenda to ‘suit you, sir’
As the G8 summit tees off, non-governmental organisations, armed with praise and planning, are setting the agenda in Fermanagh.
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Gary Gibbon
Ed Snowden to G8: turn on the taps when talking
Ed Snowden’s claim that GCHQ spied on delegates at the G20 summit “is timed to create maximum embarrassment to the UK government as it hosts the G8 in Northern Ireland this week”.
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Syria war dominates G8 agenda
The leaders of the G8 nations gather to attend the summit in Northern Ireland on Monday, with Syria’s crisis dominating the agenda.
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G8: Northern Ireland rolls out red carpet
US President Barack Obama is given a warm welcome as G8 leaders descend on Northern Ireland.
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G8 summit – Channel 4 News video reports and analysis
Channel 4 News video reports from the G8 summit taking place at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.
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Obama: US ‘will always stand behind’ peace process
President Barack Obama speaks to students in Belfast, saying there are “people who have not reaped the rewards of peace” and vowing the US will “always stand behind” efforts to create it.
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Syria: An inside view
Channel 4 news speaks to former adviser to Boris Yeltsin Alexander Nekrassov and a former US diplomat and Pentagon adviser, Charles Dunne
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Gary Gibbon
Assad’s fate in Fermanagh’s ‘dreary steeples’
Churchill called them the “dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone”. The world may have been convulsed by war between 1914-18, but as he sat down in its aftermath yet again to stare at maps of the disputed border counties, Ireland’s bloody quarrel emerged from the Firsr World War battle smoke untouched.
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Gary Gibbon
Plastic sabre-rattling on Syria?
David Cameron is devoting a lot of time to his most difficult customer at the G8. Vladimir Putin will get a one on one chat with the PM in No. 10 this afternoon before the two head for Northern Ireland.
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What Britain wants from the G8 summit
As leaders of some of the world’s biggest economies head to the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, David Cameron has put tax at the top of the agenda.
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Anti G8 protest passes off peacefully in Belfast -video
Amid an unprecedented security operation protestors marched through Belfast in protest against the G8 conference.
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Protest takes place in Belfast ahead of G8 summit
A mass rally is taking place in Belfast as demonstrators backing a variety of causes protest ahead of next week’s G8 Summit in Northern Ireland.
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Siobhan Kennedy
G8 summit: don’t bank on Britain’s territories revealing all on tax
David Cameron says he wants a deal on tax transparency at the G8 summit. But with London widely regarded as “the mother of all tax havens”, is he really serious?
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G8 security: police, protesters and paramilitaries
The Northern Ireland G8 summit has seen £50m put into security preparations. With 3,600 officers brought in from across the UK for back-up, protesters are saying the operation is over the top.
