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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Crowds fill Tehran streets for Soleimani funeral
Iranian state TV said millions turned out. And while that’s impossible to verify, it’s certainly true Tehran’s streets were packed with mourners for Qassem Soleimani today.
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Trump vows to strike ‘very fast and very hard’ if Iran retaliates against US
Sitting in his Florida mansion, President Donald Trump took to Twitter and vowed to strike ‘very fast and very hard’ if Iran attacked Americans or their assets.
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Angry mourners chant ‘death to America’ after top Iranian general assassinated
General Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike near Baghdad airport yesterday – a killing that Iranian leaders called ‘an act of war’.
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Iranian reaction to US killing
Foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman is in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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Interpol issue red notice for ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn
Interpol has issued a ‘red notice” to Lebanon, requesting the arrest of Carlos Ghosn – the former boss of Nissan cars, who’s denied any of his family were involved in his escape from Japan.
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FSB officer killed in gun attack outside Russia spy agency
An officer from Russia’s federal security agency has been killed in a gun attack outside the FSB’s headquarters in central Moscow.
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European leaders expect Brexit vote soon
In Brussels, European leaders say they expect newly elected MPs to vote on Mr Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement as soon as possible.
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European leaders call for vote on withdrawal agreement
It’s looking like full steam ahead for Brexit now – with European leaders saying they expect a vote on Britain’s withdrawal agreement as soon as possible.
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Son of murdered Maltese journalist calls for EU action on Prime Minister
The Prime Minister is staying on, he says until the middle of next month.
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Trump calls Trudeau ‘two-faced’ after NATO ‘gossiping’ video
Today the NATO summit for the first time discussed a potential threat from China – and declared outer space a new operational domain. But planning for the future was overshadowed by tensions in the present.
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Growing division on future of NATO
There’s growing evidence of division among leaders on the future of NATO – as a war of words continued throughout the day between Presidents Trump and Macron.
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Pressure mounts on Israel PM Netanyahu to resign
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said tonight that he will continue to lead his country, in spite of being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes.
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Israel PM Netanyahu thanks Trump for Israeli settlements decision
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has travelled to the West Bank to celebrate after the Trump administration declared that Israeli settlements there are not a violation of international law.
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26-year-old man arrested at Heathrow Airport over suspected terrorism offences
A 26-year-old man has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of Syria-related terror offences. The man was arriving in the UK from Turkey, just hours after Turkey confirmed it had deported a British Islamic State suspect.
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Trump meets Erdogan at White House
While the impeachment hearings were going on, President Trump was busy with international diplomacy, greeting President Erdogan of Turkey at the White House.
