Cathy Newman
In DR Congo with Angelina Jolie
She enlisted William Hague in the global campaign against warzone rape, and empowered women facing breast cancer. Cathy Newman explains why she chose Angelina Jolie as her person of the year.
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What GCHQ knows about us – a timeline of revelations
The NSA is facing reform after outrage from lawmakers in the US. But what about Britains own state-sponsored spying? Channel 4 News revisits the revelations about GCHQ and the reaction.
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Cathy Newman
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Fleeing South Sudan: UK sends plane to evacuate Brits
The Foreign Office is evacuating British nationals from South Sudan amid fighting that has killed up to 500 people.
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Cathy Newman
Hague to host global summit on war zone rape
Today in the Commons Mr Hague made an impassioned plea for the world to act on warzone rape, which he described as “a monstrosity of our age”
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Cameron vows to ‘change the rules’ on EU benefits
David Cameron’s plans to make it harder to stop new arrivals from the EU getting out-of-work benefits for three months in a bid crack down on immigration have been criticised by a top EU official.
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William Hague on the nuclear deal with Iran
William Hague delivers a statement to the House of Commons following the historic nuclear deal agreed with Iran over the weekend.
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On the UK aid trail: relief effort arrives in Philippines
HMS Daring arrives at the crisis zone in the Philippines as part of the UK’s emergency response to Typhoon Haiyan as the search for missing Brits continues.
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Cathy Newman
Dr Jo Lusi: healing the wounds of men’s inhumanity to women
Dr Jo Lusi believes his mission – to rescue Congolese women from the rapists, repair their hideous wounds, and reconstruct a society savaged by war – is a cause worth dying for.
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Jonathan Miller
I didn’t believe Sri Lanka torture stories: I do now – Tamil victim
A Tamil man, tortured this year in Sri Lanka, tells Channel 4 News of his frustration and sense of powerlessness as world leaders prepare to travel to the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka next week.
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Sri Lanka boycott ‘would damage Commonwealth’ – Hague
Foreign Secretary William Hague defends the government’s decision to go to a Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka, but says the UK backs the UN’s calls for an inquiry.
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Michael Crick
Hague: GCHQ modified my phone to stop bugging
William Hague has revealed that GCHQ, the British intelligence gathering operation in Cheltenham, has modified his telephone to stop people bugging it – the Chinese especially.
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Jonathan Rugman
Syria: talks about talks face 'formidable obstacles'
At next month’s international conference on Syria, it is unclear which opposition groups will talk to a regime accused of wholesale slaughter.
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Hague: we back ‘moderate’ Syrian opposition
As foreign ministers meet in London to discuss Syria, William Hague says they want the moderate opposition to the Assad regime to know that “we are behind them”.
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Syrian opposition urged to attend peace talks
As Britain and other countries try to persuade Syria’s fractured opposition to attend peace talks in Geneva, the main western-backed group signals that it may not be going.
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Jon Snow
A dimly lit Sri Lankan affair, in a side street beneath the UN
Why did Britain stage a drinks reception with the Sri Lankan government , in the shadow of UN headquarters, when Colombo’s role in horrific war crimes remains unanswered?
