Rageh Omaar
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Washington DC prepares for unrest on America's day of reckoning
Washington DC is preparing for an election result and the ensuing expected backlash, boarding up shops and reinforcing protection around the White House. → Read More
African-American and minority voters who support and oppose Donald Trump
The Republican Party has made the political targeting, especially of African American men, such a key political pitch in the last weeks of the election. → Read More
Somaliland: International aid arrives just in time
Read Somaliland: International aid arrives just in time - but the hunger crisis is far from over latest on ITV News. All the World news → Read More
Thousands turn out to support hardline candidate in Iranian election
Read Thousands turn out to support hardline candidate in Iranian election latest on ITV News. All the World news → Read More
Somaliland: 'Things are worse now than two months ago'
The Governor of Somaliland’s drought-ravaged eastern province of Togdheer stood calmly against a backdrop of flimsy shelters created out of thorn bushes and scraps of plastic and torn cloth that had sprung up in the two months that I’d last been in the villages around Einaabo. There were only a few makeshift camps for rural communities fleeing hunger and the threat of famine back then, now there… → Read More
Fighting famine: Why the world only has weeks to save the lives of millions
In a week of special coverage, ITV News is taking a closer look at how widespread starvation is threatening countries in the parts of the Middle East and Africa. Beginning our series, Fighting Famine, International Affairs Editor Rageh Omaar explains why the world must act now if it wants any chance of averting a catastrophe. → Read More
Barack Obama arrives for difficult Saudi Arabia talks
When Barack Obama began his presidency, one of the first things he did was to make a landmark speech in Cairo in which he addressed the Muslim world. In the wake of 9/11, Guantanamo Bay and the catastrophe of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Barack Obama, who was swept into office amidst a global tide of optimism and (to borrow from his campaign slogan) hope, passionately called for a… → Read More
Tehran: The 'nose job' capital of the world
Even though Iran is gradually opening up to the world, to Western eyes, it is still a country frozen in time. To us it is still the land of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which remain implacably opposed to anything western, with a strict and forbidding approach to life for young people in search of new and modern fashions. There is certainly this side to Iran, but it's also a stereotype. Walk… → Read More
Iran elections: Is this the start of a quiet and peaceful revolution?
There have been the beginnings of a quiet, peaceful revolution in the land of the Islamic Republic. Sounds like quite a statement doesn’t it? Well, consider the facts as we have them this morning. Before the polls finally closed on Friday evening in Iran’s parliamentary elections (after they had to be extended five times by the way, due to massive turnout), moderate reformist politicians were a… → Read More
Polls open in first Iran election since historic nuclear deal
Polls have opened in Iran's parliamentary election, the first since the nation's landmark nuclear deal with world powers last year. Iranians are also voting for the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body empowered to choose or dismiss the country's supreme leader. The vote is largely a referendum on moderate president Hassan Rouhani following last summer's historic nuclear agreement, which curbed… → Read More
'Three Russians detained' after fatal Istanbul blast
Turkish authorities have detained three Russian nationals, suspected of having links to Islamic State, after Tuesday's bombing in Istanbul, the news agency Reuters reports. Yesterday's blast in Sultanahmet Square killed 10 tourists. At least nine are thought to be German citizens. → Read More
Shocking images from Syria reveal starvation as the latest weapon of war
The images which, against the odds, made it out of the town of Madaya have not only shocked a world that had thought it had grown used to the horrors of Syria's conflict - they also shone a spotlight on a growing tactic of war used by all sides. → Read More
Saudi-Iran dispute: Those caught in their proxy wars will pay highest price
Towards the end of 2015, there seemed to be a tiny bit of promise that Saudi Arabia's Sunni monarchy and Iran's Shia government, so long at violent loggerheads in a series of proxy wars in the region, may actually be cajoled by international powers to work together towards a common policy on Syria. → Read More
The hospitals forced below the ground by Assad's bombs
It says much about the horrific scale of and extent of Syria's civil war and its effects on civilians that experienced surgeons describe being a health worker or being near a medical centre as the most dangerous things in the world. In fact, so dangerous has it become for doctors and health workers in Syria that charities and activists have built underground hospitals, burrowed deep into… → Read More
Credible, cohesive ground troops needed to stop IS revenue streams
Most experts agree that the trade in oil products is a component in IS's financing - but no more than that. It is without doubt an important component earning the group around £440 million a year, according to US authorities and independent experts. But it is also true that it's not just IS that depends on this oil. In fact it would not be going too far to say that this oil trade overseen by IS… → Read More
COP21: Could Paris terror attacks lead to greater urgency on climate change?
It spoke volumes that the first thing President Barack Obama did as soon as he arrived in Paris late last night for the major UN climate change conference was to go to the scene of the Bataclan theatre attack where so many people were killed in the terrorist attacks earlier this month. The mass murder by Islamist extremists in Paris and elsewhere - from Bamako to Beirut to the Sinai Peninsula -… → Read More
UK's trade relationship with India failing to live up to historical ties
Britain's links with India span four centuries and those links are not just tied by a shared history, they permeate our society at every level on a daily basis. From the large, vibrant and dynamic community of Britons of Indian decent to what is arguably Britain's national dish, the proverbial Indian Curry, living reminders of this country's very deep-rooted connections with India are… → Read More
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Britain
Narendra Modi will become the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Britain in almost a decade on Thursday, with both sides hoping to seal a number of business deals worth "billions of pounds" during his stay. David Cameron will meet Mr Modi in London and at Chequers for comprehensive talks. The three-day trip will also include a meeting with the Queen and a rally at Wembley Stadium on Friday,… → Read More
PM announces £9bn of ventures between UK and India during Modi visit
David Cameron has announced new ventures worth more than £9 billion between India and the UK. Speaking at a joint press conference with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Cameron said it was "a real opportunity to open a new chapter in the relationship between our two countries". Modi's three-day visit will also include a meeting with the Queen and a rally at Wembley Stadium on Friday,… → Read More