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More affected by Pakistan floods than tsunami
As the number of people directly affected by the Pakistan floods exceeds those hit by the 2004 tsunami, Science Correspondent Tom Clarke examines the weather patterns which could be to blame.
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Somalia: the new Pakistan for terror recruitment?
An investigation for Channel 4 News reveals the story of a suicide bomber who grew up in Ealing before travelling to Somalia. Jonathan Rugman follows the path taken by newly radicalised youths.
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Suffering of refugees in Muammar Gaddafi's Libya
Here’s an African love story. Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the…
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Stories behind the numbers
I blame journalists. If we didn’t demand numbers, governments wouldn’t have to make them up. How many people have been displaced by the fighting in Pakistan? According to the government, 2,882,642.
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Swat: why we should care about this faraway war
In quieter times, Taj Mahmad pulls a cart loaded with vegetables for a living. But today’s Washington Post quotes him as saying that he fled government shelling so quickly that he and his wife were forced to leave their son and three-year-old daughter behind. “My wife cried and said the rest of us would be…
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Iraq war translators feel ‘abandoned’
A former British army translator, in exile from Iraq, tells Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller “every day the situation is worse” after being “abandoned” by the UK.
