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What now for the future of Fox News after Murdoch’s departure?
Fox News, conceived by Rupert Murdoch in the 1990s, changed the US political landscape. The right-leaning 24 hour network became a platform for the Republican party, taking Donald Trump under its wing and propelling his success.
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Enabling Donald Trump was ‘a dark, dark moment’, says the former editor of The Sun on Murdoch’s legacy
Earlier we spoke to David Yelland, former editor of the Sun newspaper, who now has a podcast – When it hits the fan – on the BBC.
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21m
Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp chairman
Rupert Murdoch’s many critics blame him for coarsening British culture, exercising undue political influence and overseeing criminality in the form of phone hacking.
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4m
Nagorno-Karabakh: We want to break this cycle of history, says Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Last night we spoke to the Armenian ambassador to the UK and earlier today Krishnan spoke to his Azeri counterpart and began by asking what is going to happen now to the population in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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7m
Nagorno-Karabakh: Ceasefire agreed after dozens killed in Azerbaijan military offensive
After 24 hours of intensive bombardment, the President of Azerbaijan claims it has restored its sovereignty “with an iron fist” over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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4m
Could the 14th amendment be used to stop Trump from running for presidency again?
In the United States, Republican and Democratic opponents of Donald Trump are considering using a rarely-used section of the constitution to stop him from running in next year’s presidential election. The 14th amendment, written after the civil war, has been used in two major lawsuits already stating that the former president is constitutionally ineligible to…
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3m
Libya floods: More than 11,000 suspected dead
Aid workers are battling to get food and medicine to survivors five days after the floods in Libya that are thought to have killed more than eleven-thousand people. Around ten-thousand people are still missing and Libyans want to know why warnings about the state of Darnah’s dams were not acted upon.
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3m
Nasa appoints new chief of UFO research
Until very recently, telling people you believe in flying saucers or extra-terrestrials might have raised a few eyebrows.
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4m
‘What happened is criminal negligence of the first order’, says founder of Libyan think tank
We spoke to Anas El Gomati – founder of the Libyan independent think tank – Sadeq Institute.
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6m
‘We’re afraid of an epidemic of diseases like cholera, hepatitis and typhoid’, says Benghazi doctor
We spoke to Dr Mohamed Abolefa – a doctor who’s in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
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9m
Libya floods: Demands for inquiry into burst dams as death toll rises
As the death toll grows, so too does the anger – and a country divided by the legacy of civil war is now united in its call for accountability.
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FactCheck: what we know about the Libyan flood and climate change
Research is still underway to establish the exact role climate change could have played in Storm Daniel and the Libya flood.
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5m
Biden impeachment inquiry: Is there evidence against president?
Donald Trump is no stranger to impeachment proceedings. He’s faced charges not once – but twice. Now, right wing republicans in Congress have been pushing to impeach his likely rival in next year’s elections, President Joe Biden. Yesterday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally ordered an inquiry to be opened – but do they have the…
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7m
Mahsa Amini: A year on from death – did protests change Iran?
It’s a year since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police on the streets of Iran. Within days she was dead – her family said she’d been beaten in custody. Her death ignited a wave of women-led protests that shook Iran, posing the biggest threat the regime has faced in almost half a…
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Kim Jong Un and Putin building ‘problem-solving dynamic’, says director
We spoke to Dr John Park, director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an expert on North Korea’s military capabilities and nuclear ambitions.