Matt Frei
US in decline, the new normal?
America looks over to Europe and thinks things could be worse. It then glances at China and the colour drains from Uncle Sam’s face.
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Hugo Chavez – Latin American demagogue with the common touch
The Venezuelan president was a polarising figure – someone who could bait George W Bush on TV while championing the poor and presiding over a unique social experiment in the country he led.
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Zero Dark Thirty could breed ‘new generation of torture’
As the controversial new war film opens in Britain, a former Guantanamo guard tells Channel 4 News that he fears Zero Dark Thirty will encourage future young soldiers to “throw the rulebook out”.
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George Bush senior in hospital
George Bush Sr has been moved to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Houston, Texas, suffering from a fever.
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What is the fiscal cliff? Your key questions answered
It is a looming deadline which will trigger sweeping tax hikes for most Americans and deep spending cuts, possibly plunging the country into another recession. We sort out the facts – and the figures.
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Fiscal cliffhanger as Republicans reject Obama’s plan
So much for those post-election hopes that the parties would reach a deal to avoid the looming fiscal cliff. Leading Republicans have trashed Obama’s plan as “totally inadequate” and a “non-starter”.
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Matt Frei
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Novelist Gore Vidal dies at age 86
Author, commentator and polemicist Gore Vidal dies at his home in the Hollywood Hills after complications from pneumonia. He was living alone and had been ill for some time.
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Matt Frei
Confront and conceal – the Obama approach?
What kind of president is Barack Obama? Certainly not the kind that America thought it had elected almost four years ago. Matt Frei blogs on Mr Obama’s expansion of cyber warfare and use of drones.
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Matt Frei
Noxious brew that delayed Nasa’s latest satellite
Fingers crossed, DSCOVR will fly in 2014, more than a decade after it should have been launched, a decade in which it could have provided crucial scientific information in one of the most important issues of our day.
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Chill out – the PM taking a break is good for us
He is in charge of the UK at one of the toughest times in recent history, yet he likes to wind down whenever he can. Is David Cameron’s tendency to “chillax” good for him – and the country?
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Suspended peer says Obama ‘bounty’ a ‘pack of lies’
After Lord Ahmed was accused of offering a £10m “bounty” for the capture of US President Barack Obama, the peer tells Channel 4 News the allegations are a “complete pack of lies”.
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Jon Snow
The remoteness of modern war
Channel 4 News presenter, Jon Snow, on Afghanistan, British and US military presence there, and the meanings of war.
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What now for US Afghan mission after Kandahar shootings?
With fears of reprisal attacks and a mass walk-out of Kabul’s parliament, Channel 4 News examines what lies ahead for the US soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians – and for the whole mission.
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Michael Crick
‘I will not make age an issue in this campaign’
If, as looks increasingly likely, Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination, he’ll be 65 when he stands in the general election this November. And Republicans like elderly candidates.
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Afghan life tough but better, says top UK diplomat
The situation in Afghanistan is serious but improving 10 years after the invasion, Britain’s special representative to the country tells Channel 4 News.
