Jonathan Rugman , Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Jonathan Rugman has been Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News for more than a decade.
He reported from the revolutions and uprisings in Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Bahrain and has covered stories as diverse as Somalia's famine, the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, corruption in world football and the Haiti earthquake. In 2016 he won a BAFTA for his reporting on the terrorist attacks in Paris.
He was previously the programme's Washington Correspondent and Business Correspondent and his reporting has won more than 10 awards. He is the author of "Ataturk's Children: Turkey and the Kurds" and previously worked on BBC Radio 4 documentaries and in Turkey for the BBC and The Guardian.
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Nigerian security forces ‘open fire’ on protesters in Lagos
Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, has had a round-the-clock police curfew after demonstrators came under fire from security forces last night.
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Covid cases soaring across Europe
It’s not just the UK struggling to cope with a fresh wave of coronavirus, cases are soaring across Europe too, with several governments facing a public backlash. Italy insists that face masks be worn outdoors after a spike in cases.
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Russia, US and France step up efforts to halt Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Hundreds have been killed since clashes began at the end of last month.
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At least 30 killed in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan
In the Caucasus, at least 30 people have been killed in a second day of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Boris Johnson sought advice from Sweden over Covid strategy
Sweden’s Chief Epidemiologist has told Channel 4 News that the UK having a lockdown – and then ending it – was probably the biggest cause of a surge in British Covid cases
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Covid restrictions come into force in Madrid as cases soar
The government’s scientific and medical advisers today compared the UK with other European countries which have seen a sharp rise in cases.
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‘We are not pursuing any kind of imperialistic aims, we are protecting our rights’ – Turkey’s defence minister on dispute with Greece
Turkey’s Defence minister has accused the French President of “trying to take on the role of Napoleon” during the crisis pitting Greece and Turkey against each other in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Greece and Turkey accuse each other of breaking the international law of the sea
Fossil fuels might be going out of fashion, but a dispute over the right to drill for natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean has provoked fears that two NATO allies could come to blows.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny poisoned with Novichok, says Germany
German officials said they’d found ‘unequivocal proof’ of Alexei Navalny having been poisoned by Novichok.
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Protests in Inner Mongolia over language edict
Unusually large protests are taking place in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, in a rare show of civil disobedience.
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Netanyahu urges Raab to change stance on Iran sanctions
The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was in Israel today, hearing sharp words from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
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Hezbollah member found guilty of involvement in 2005 assassination of Lebanon’s former PM
A United Nations-backed tribunal has convicted one member of the Hezbollah militant group of planning the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri, 15 years ago.
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Suspected Russian mercenaries arrested over attempt to destabilise Belarus
Russia has demanded an explanation after more than 30 suspected Russian mercenaries were arrested near the Belarussian capital Minsk.
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Johnson warns of ‘second wave’ in Europe – and suggests more travel restrictions could follow if necessary
The Prime Minister has raised the prospect of new quarantine restrictions on even more European countries if there’s a second wave of coronavirus cases.
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Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia holds first Muslim prayers in 86 years
President Erdogan of Turkey has joined huge crowds in Istanbul, for the first Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia since the 1,500-year-old former church was turned back into a mosque.
