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Sudan Part Two: Abducted and held in Khartoum
Part two of our report from Sudan in which our camera team were kidnapped, incarcerated and tortured after attempting to report from the frontline of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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Channel 4 News filmmakers reveal six week ordeal in Sudanese detention
In December 2016, freelance journalist Phil Cox and Darfuri author Daoud Hari were abducted while travelling in Sudan to film an investigation into human rights abuses.
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Straw could be sued by former Libyan dissident
The former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw could be sued by a former Libyan dissident who was allegedly kidnapped by the CIA in 2004 and taken to Libya.
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Nigeria: Boko Haram’s victims
In 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok. Most of them have still not been found and the abductions have continued. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson has visited a camp in Maiduguri, where Unicef has helped support some of those abducted.
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Chibok: second girl ‘rescued’ from Boko Haram
A second girl, who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on their school in Nigeria, has been rescued, according to the army.
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Jihadi John ‘killed in drone strike’
The Pentagon says it is “reasonably certain” British Islamic State extremist Mohammed Emwazi, also known as “Jihadi John”, has been killed in an air strike in Syria.
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Becky Watts stepbrother sentenced to 33 years for murder
Nathan Matthews will serve minimum of 33 years. His girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, will be sentenced to 17 years for the manslaughter of the 16-year-old.
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Becky Watts stepbrother guilty of her murder
The stepbrother of schoolgirl Becky Watts has been found guilty of murdering her during a sexually motivated kidnap.
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Appeal asks for you to help Yazidi girls who escaped ISIS
Shocking mental trauma, sexual abuse and kidnapping are just some of the horrors inflicted on the Yazidi population of Iraq by ISIS militants. A British charity today launches an appeal to help them.
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The British mother and children who escaped Isis
Shukee Begum and her five children have been rescued from a gang of Syrian criminals – after they were taken hostage trying to escape from the so-called Islamic State in Syria.
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Israel accused of war crimes in Rafah ‘Black Friday’ attacks
Human rights group Amnesty International says there is evidence Israel committed war crimes by bombarding the Palestinian town of Rafah in August 2014 after a ceasefire had been announced.
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FactCheck: how many terror plots have been busted since the 7/7 bombings?
How many times have the authorities foiled terror plots since the events of July 7 2005?
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Boko Haram attacks mark 100 days since Nigeria election
Boko Haram militants are suspected of marking 100 days since Nigeria’s election with two bloody attacks that kill 44 people in the Nigerian city of Jos, capital of the Plateau state.
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Luton family statement says they are in the ‘Islamic State’
A statement claims the family of 12, including three children, went to Syria willingly after rejecting ‘so-called freedom and democracy’.
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The confederate flag – key questions
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the confederate flag to be taken down after the killing of nine black churchgoers. Why does the flag provoke such controversy?