Articles from February 2012

February 28, 2012 6:57 pm 30 Comments

Alex Thomson writes on Afghanistan's secret prostitution problem taking place in people's own family homes.

February 24, 2012 3:39 pm 10 Comments

There’s a lot of fuss at the moment about female war correspondents as if we were some kind of recently discovered species. Yet we’ve been around a while. Lyse Doucet of the BBC and I call those of our vintage the “Old Trouts Club”. Most of us are in our 40s and 50s, although Dame Ann Leslie is certainly a member and she’s more than 70.

February 22, 2012 4:17 pm 39 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the loss of her friend, veteran war reporter, Marie Colvin.

February 21, 2012 11:16 am No Comments

John Sparks on developments in Thailand's international terrorism saga.

February 20, 2012 9:23 pm No Comments

The latest report from Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman in Syria.

February 18, 2012 3:08 pm 2 Comments

"Putin is wetting himself in fear," they shouted and sang. Passers-by loved the show so much they asked for an encore. Then the group were arrested.

February 17, 2012 11:12 am 2 Comments

The propaganda machine is in overdrive in the run-up to elections in March, and the war is being fought with videos.

10:51 am 1 Comment

The international community learned a lot of lessons from Libya, and there are regrets. Lindsey Hilsum is in Moscow on the first anniversary of the revolution.

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Thailand's politicians are struggling to explain to its public why it unwittingly played host to a botched bombing, writes Jon Sparks.

February 12, 2012 1:54 pm 18 Comments

Over the last five months, the Thai border police have made a series of spectacular animal seizures in the north east. Tens of thousands of dogs have been discovered, stuffed into 'pig cages', with ten or sometimes even fifteen animals packed into each one. Channel 4 News' Asia correspondent John Sparks reports.