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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become something of a poster-boy for Europe’s far right. He’s portrayed himself as the defender of a white, Christian Hungary at risk from refugees and migrants. His government has rewritten the constitution, tightened control over the media and remodelled the justice system. Now in his fourth term in office, he’s taken…

Last month, I received a letter from a Swedish woman. She had seen an old news film shot in 1980, in which I had reported from the frontline of the Iran/Iraq war. She said my team had filmed a man, who then had been a young Iranian soldier languishing in an Iraqi prisoner of war…

When mass demonstrations in the spring led to the downfall of Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, protesters hoped for a peaceful transition to civilian rule. But since then, the backlash has been brutal. Hundreds have died or gone missing. One man has tightened his grip on power through the most brutal arm of the state, known as the…

France is preparing for a potentially record-breaking heatwave. Temperatures are forecast to hit 40 degrees Celsius later this week. Authorities in Paris have enacted an extreme heat plan, fearing a repeat of the conditions which killed an estimated 15,000 people in France in 2003. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain are also preparing for oppressive heat.

When Turkey’s President Erdogan and his ruling party lost control of Istanbul, the result was cancelled and a re-run was ordered. Last night, voters gave their verdict on the President’s autocratic rule in emphatic style. March’s narrow 13,000 vote victory for the opposition was transformed into a far larger majority of more than three quarters of a…

He backed away from a military strike on Iran at the last minute over its attack on a US drone, but now President Trump has imposed new economic sanctions. The increased pressure on Iran comes at the same time as the US asks for fresh negotiations. But Tehran doesn’t want to talk until sanctions lift, and it’s…

The parents of a British man who joined Islamic State militants have told this programme they have no regrets about sending him money and would do it all again. Last week, they were given a suspended prison sentence for terrorism offences after sending him £223 four years ago. In their first television interview since then, John Letts…

As Donald Trump told the world on Thursday that he had pulled back from launching air strikes on Iran, he did, it seems, still authorise retaliation for the shooting down of a US drone.  

Hundreds of climate change activists in Germany have temporarily occupied an open-cast coalmine in protest over the use of fossil fuels.

We were offered a rare glimpse of life in the secretive state, but seeing is not always believing.

Retired four-star General Jack Keane is the former vice-chief of staff of the US Army, and currently serves as the chairman of the Institute for the Study of War.

Just ten minutes from the brink – President Trump backed off from armed confrontation with Iran, claiming he cancelled planned air strikes with just a few minutes to go after being told that 150 people could die as a result.

Matt spoke to Ska Keller a German Green Party MEP and head of the Green block. I began by asking how the EU would deal with Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.

Brussels was back in business today with the first meeting of the European Council since the Euro elections last month.

The Iranian Ambassador to the UK tells me that ‘there are certain provisions for clemency’ for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who’s been in prison in Iran since April 2016.