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Airlines avoid troubled Sinai after plane crashes killing all 224 people on board

Isil claims responsibility for bringing down Airbus A321 - operated by the Russian airline Metrojet - shortly after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, but experts say terrorists lack the necessary firepower

Russian airliner crash: was it terrorism or a mechanical fault - and what else do we know?

An Airbus A321 crashed in the Sinai peninsula in Egypt on Saturday morning. Here is what we can piece together so far

Shaker Aamer case is our pride, not our shame

Britain is likely to pay ��1 million to the former Guantanamo inmate, although he is a foreign national. Would any other country do the same?

Rival powers gather for first talks over Syria's civil war

Iran and Saudi Arabia are among the bitter rivals meeting for the first time to discuss Syria's crisis

Yanis Varoufakis accused of profiting from Greek crisis by charging ��40,000 speaker fees

The radical socialist who was sacked as Greek finance minister is charging lavish lecture fees, says an email from the London Speaker Bureau

Abu Qatada condemns 'filthy' Shias in new al-Qaeda magazine

The extremist who fought deportation from Britain reinvents himself as a columnist for al-Qaeda propaganda

South Sudan: Off to war in a football shirt - and to church in Sunday best

Our Foreign Correspondent's Notebook comes from David Blair in Juba

Russian and Iranian offensive may allow Isil to 'seize more territory' in Syria

As Russian warplanes and Iranian forces attack non-Isil rebels in Syria, Western officials fear this could help the terrorists to advance

Child soldier, 14, already a veteran of South Sudan's civil war

As a new film about child soldiers is released, David Blair speaks to a boy caught up in South Sudan's conflict

South Sudan: The forgotten war in the heart of Africa

As British soldiers prepare to deploy in South Sudan, David Blair reports on a forgotten war in the heart of Africa that has forced 2.2 million people to flee their homes