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Former Libyan detainee to sue Jack Straw over rendition
Abdel Hakim Belhadj says he is taking legal action following allegations the former foreign secretary personally permitted his illegal rendition.
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Fears grow over drug-resistant malaria strain
Evidence suggests the great killer malaria is developing greater resistance, as Channel 4 News hears it could mean many more cases across south east Asia.
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Burma: where are all the cops?
Imagine our surprise on arrival at Rangoon’s airport, when a plain clothes operative came back with our press cards and passports with a watery smile and a (barely-audible) ‘welcome to Myanmar’
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Face to face with a terrorism suspect
John Sparks on developments in Thailand’s international terrorism saga.
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'When terror isn't terrorism'
Thailand’s politicians are struggling to explain to its public why it unwittingly played host to a botched bombing, writes Jon Sparks.
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Iranian nuclear weapon ‘getting closer’
As President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad loads nuclear fuel rods into the Tehran Research Reactor, experts say Iran does have the technology to make a nuclear weapon, but lacks the political will – for now.
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Iran behind Thai bombings, says Israel
An Iranian man has been badly wounded after a bungled bombing in Thailand. Israel’s defence minster described it as an attempted terrorist attack.
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Thailand battles a dog-napping crime wave
Over the last five months, the Thai border police have made a series of spectacular animal seizures in the north east. Tens of thousands of dogs have been discovered, stuffed into ‘pig cages’, with ten or sometimes even fifteen animals packed into each one. Channel 4 News’ Asia correspondent John Sparks reports.
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Former Libyan detainees ‘to sue ex-MI6 chief’
Two former Libyan detainees who claim that British spies were involved in their rendition and torture are suing former director of counter-terrorism at MI6, according to their lawyers.
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Met to probe Libyan rendition claims
Senior UK security officials and ministers could be in the frame as the Metropolitan Police begins a new wider investigation into allegations of rendition in Libya, as Simon Israel reports.
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The hidden dangers of Thailand's roads
John Sparks meets the mothers who lost their sons on Thailand’s roads – and who are campaigning to stop it happening again.
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The undocumented dangers of Thailand’s roads
It is a top tourist destination – but what the guidebooks don’t tell you is that Thailand’s roads are lethal. Now a group of mothers whose sons died in a bus crash are campaigning to change that.
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'Extreme Animal Rescue'
The calls began in early October with panicked sounding ‘pet’ owners begging Dr ‘Ning’ Natarika to do something. Millions of Thais were evacuating their homes, taking only what they could carry. Everything else was left behind – and ‘everything else’ happens to include snakes, monkeys (including an endangered capuchin), wild boar, hundreds of deer, a couple of black panthers, Siberian tigers, black bears, a pride of lions and so on.
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Thomas Cook shares hit as firm seeks financial help
Shares in Thomas Cook plunge after the holiday firm is forced to ask lenders for more money, but bosses insist it is “business as usual”.
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Thailand braces itself for disease threat
Thai officials say central Bangkok has escaped the worst of Thailand’s most severe floods in half a century, but aid groups are now warning of the threat of water-borne diseases.
