Lindsey Hilsum
Not the best start to Syria’s Humpty Dumpty talks
With Iran out of this week’s Geneva II conference, prepare for talks where words mean different things to different people – and which could end with a great fall.
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Iran – a country where being ‘Happy’ is a crime?
A group of young Iranians who made their own version of Pharrell Williams’ hit Happy and posted it on YouTube have been arrested, it emerges.
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UK smog alert: how bad is it?
Some of the worst air pollution since the great smog of 1952 will hit Britain in the next 24 hours – but how will it compare to other cities around the world?
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48 years on death row: Japanese man finally released
As a Japanese man is released after 48 years on death row – a new report shows that publicly disclosed executions jumped nearly 15 per cent in 2013.
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Iran, not Libya, behind Lockerbie, claims defector
The Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Iranian officials in retaliation for the US shooting down one of its civilian aircraft, a high level defector claims.
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Iran’s snowman festival
A short commute from Tehran’s nuclear wranglings and disputes with the West, dozens of Iranian families were in Iran’s Alborz mountains on Saturday for a snowman festival.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Geneva II: does ‘smoking gun’ threaten Syria peace talks?
As a team of international war crimes prosecutors releases images appearing to show evidence of systematic killing in Syria, Channel 4 News asks if this week’s peace talks in Geneva are at risk.
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Syria peace talks to proceed after Iran invite withdrawn
The Syrian National Coalition confirms it will attend peace talks in Geneva on Wednesday, after the UN withdraws its controversial last-minute invitation for Iran to attend.
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Jon Snow
Why the Iran nuclear deal is the overture to much more
It is not so different from the nuclear deal Hassan Rouhani offered when he was Tehran’s nuclear negotiator 10 years ago. Now he’s Iran’s president and the western powers are desperate for a deal.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum’s international eye on the year ahead
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
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Jon Snow
Hassan Rouhani – confounding expectations and inspiring rare hope
We may have failed to engage with him first time round, but this time, despite all the hurdles and pitfalls, 2013 could prove to have been Hassan Rouhani’s hour, with more to come.
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Jon Snow
A Sarajevo moment for the Middle East?
The murder of a politician in Lebanon could be as decisive a turning point as the assassination that started the first world war. Jon Snows reflects on the spiraling Sunni-Shia conflict across the Middle East.
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Iran’s space monkey back on earth
A monkey has returned from space ‘in perfect health’ says Iranian TV. Three-year-old Fargam is the second monkey Iran has successfully sent into space. President Rouhani called it “a proud day”.
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Iran claims to have captured spy working with MI6
Iranian authorities claim to have arrested an alleged spy working with MI6.
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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.
