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Extradition a step closer as Viktor Bout loses his invincibility
Alleged notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout is one step closer to being extradited from Thailand to the US, writes Nick Paton Walsh, as his sense invincibility finally fades.
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Viktor Bout extradition a step closer
Suspected arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the Merchant of Death, moves a step closer to being extradited to the US after a prolonged trial, writes Asia Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.
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Workers face pension freeze at Corus steel plant
Workers at the Corus steelworks in Teesside have been told their pensions may be frozen until they are 65 if the plant is sold to Thailand’s biggest steelmaker, Nick Martin learns.
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Viktor Bout: the story of the 'Merchant of Death'
It was actually, really, quite a surprise. After all the wrangling, the endless conspiracy theories, and the melodrama, it seems like Viktor Bout – the man who’s been dubbed the world’s biggest arms dealer, the Merchant of Death – is going America to face trial. It’s been two and a half years since Viktor Bout…
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Thai protest: methodical crackdown has altered the city
What matters now is how the advancing army – one of the region’s most organised – will move the thousands of unshaken protestors ahead of them, writes Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.
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Thailand: what sea change is the military waiting for?
There is a growing confusion amongst many observers as to what else the Thai military are waiting for. These low numbers may not last if protestors again see the army’s threat yesterday to perhaps act was again not realised, writes Nick Paton Walsh.
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Thailand protests: reaching an endgame
Asia correspondent Nick PAton Walsh writes that the Thai protests have been “the most sporadic, volatile and unpredictable of protests, but it appears to be coming to an endgame”.
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Is the Afghan war on terror coming to an end?
Heat. It’s not something, that, if you live in Bangkok, you thought you would still be susceptible to. Bangkok’s sticky, like a constant reminder of how hectic and dense the city is – it’s brimming humanity. But out here, in Jalalabad, where we are en route to Kunar, near Afghanistan’s north-eastern border with Pakistan, the…
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Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa tells Channel 4 News to leave
It’s not often that the most powerful man in the country rings you. I’d spoken amicably to defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa 45 minutes earlier about getting some better access to Sri Lanka’s 25-year war. But this time he was calling me, and seemed to have remembered something. “Who is this? You rang me earlier? Is…
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Meeting Viktor Bout, the 'Merchant of Death'
BANGKOK, THAILAND – For an opening gambit, it didn’t suggest things would go that well. Viktor Bout had, at court, told me several times that the western media were untrustworthy and broadly despicable. Here, as I approached the visitor’s window in the remand centre where he’s been languishing for a year, he was set apart…
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Viktor Bout: 'I never supplied arms'
A piece in The Observer about my prison interview with the man nicknamed the “merchant of death”: Viktor Bout, the Russian accused of being the world’s biggest arms dealer, has angrily denied allegations that he supplied weapons to the Taliban and al-Qaida in his first interview for six years with the western media. Bout is…
