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Inside Minamisanriku: ‘some kind of Armageddon’
Alex Thomson reports from the Japanese port town of Minamisanriku, devastated by the tsunami. Around 10,000 of its people are feared dead – and yet survivors are surprised to see foreign help arrive.
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Why Libyan rebels' claims should not go unchallenged
Truth is the first casualty of war – and in the case of the Libyan conflict, we should be more sceptical about some of the claims being made by the anti-Gaddafi forces, blogs Alex Thomson
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Libyan exodus: 'I'm alive… I'm in Tunisia'
Alex Thomson blogs from the border between Tunisia and Libya on the miracle of the modern telephone and the stories of those who have fled Gaddafi’s nation.
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Over the wall and into civil war
Alex Thomson jumps the wall into Libya and surveys the exodus of Libya’s forgotten Ghanaian expats as they traverse the sands, en masse, towards home, and without help.
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The Tunisia Libya border: not catastrophic, not comfortable
Alex Thomson returns to the Libya Tunisia border to find that the situation has changed in the past three days: it is not chaotic or catastrophic – but it’s not comfortable.
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Libya-Tunisia border: guards fire into air to control crowds
Shots have been fired into the air at the border of Libya and Tunisia. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says around 20,000 people are waiting at the border.
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Tunisia secret security very much in business
As usual we were looking for trouble and being journalists – let’s face it – relieved to find it. As usual these days in Tunis the trouble was brewing all around the Interior Ministry in the center of town, blogs Alex Thomson.
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Tunisia's unfinished business
Alex Thomson returns to Tunisia to find there is still a lot of unfinished business in the country which triggered the Arab uprisings.
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Tunisia prime minister resigns amid new protests
Tunisia’s revolution sparked the unrest across the Middle East. Now, as the country’s prime minister resigns, Alex Thomson reports on new protests in Tunis where one man said “we don’t have liberty”.
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Libya: is this really a regime in its last hours?
It seems to me that this does not add up to a regime in its last hours. It does not appear to be a regime in its very last days even, blogs Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
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Gaddafi and the seven sons, blond mercenaries and X
In a dusty bar on the Tunisian border with Libya at dusk, Alex Thomson meets a Libyan insider who’s seen blond mercenaries on the streets of Tripoli.
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Libya: protesters shot in Tripoli, Gaddafi addresses crowd
Colonel Gaddafi urges Tripoli crowd to “get ready to fight for Libya”, as Government forces are reported to have opened fire on protesters. Alex Thomson speaks to a witness to the violence.
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Libya crisis: anti-Gaddafi militias seize towns near Tripoli
As fresh fighting breaks out in Libya, Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says Colonel Gaddafi’s forces seem to be rapidly losing their grip on key western towns near Tripoli.
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Olaf Schmid death: do army inquests ever give us answers?
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson asks if military inquests ever give families answers when – in the case of bomb disposal expert Olaf Schmid – some evidence is “never really explored”.
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Egypt uprising: ‘the stakes could hardly be higher’
If Egypt’s President Mubarak is toppled, America and Israel stand to lose a key ally in the Middle East. The stakes could hardly be higher, writes Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.