Blog posts tagged "US"

June 14, 2011 12:06 pm 1 Comment

"NATO appears to have run out of targets in Tripoli, but the Brother Leader is still here, playing chess with his friend Kirsan Illuyzhinov, the President of the World Chess Federation,a man who claims to have been briefly abducted by space aliens in 1997."

November 16, 2010 9:50 am 6 Comments

Notorious suspected arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the Merchant of Death, is extradited to the US from Thailand.

September 16, 2010 4:23 pm 3 Comments

Forget how many men Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has slept with – the big headline America has grabbed out of a juicy new biography of the French first lady is the revelation that Michelle Obama thinks being first lady is "hell".

August 25, 2010 12:35 pm No Comments

In a further twist in the tale of the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, his extradition from Thailand to the US has been delayed. Asia Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh explains why the "merchant of death" is detained.

August 19, 2010 4:45 pm No Comments

The last US combat brigade has left Iraq, pulling troops out of the country two weeks earlier than President Obama's deadline. Channel 4 News's Tim Lambon, who was there the day US forces rolled into Baghdad, looks at the rapid drawdown, and Iraq's uncertain future.

July 27, 2010 12:30 pm 2 Comments

Nick Paton Walsh is currently embedded with the US Army in southern Afghanistan. We all heard the boom, but didn’t know what it had done. An hour later, it was clear from the sullen faces in the base headquarters, it had meant the worst. The skyline around the 82nd Airborne’s base, COP Winklemann, is a [...]

July 21, 2010 1:29 pm 1 Comment

The only supply route for the war in Afghanistan is perhaps the biggest moving target on earth, where troops, warlords and hired guns run the gauntlet daily, writes Channel 4 News' Nick Paton Walsh, embedded with US troops - whose hands are tied under 'courageous restraint'.

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I had just woken up when I heard the explosion. Instinctively I reached for my camera. Was this the beginning of a Taliban attack?

June 10, 2010 11:23 am No Comments

“These sanctions are not aimed at the Iranian people,” said the US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, in the Security Council session where the new resolution was passed. “These sanctions are as tough as they are smart and precise.”   Targeting banks, shipping lines and companies which help the government’s nuclear and missile programmes, [...]

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A couple of years ago I took tea with a man called Ahmet Davutoglu in a Piccadilly hotel. Back then he was foreign policy adviser to Turkey’s prime minister. Now he’s foreign minister and probably the most important and pro-active Turk in the role in almost two decades.   After last week’s attack by Israeli [...]