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Andrew Tate detained in connection with human trafficking and rape investigation
Andrew Tate, the controversial influencer and misogynist, faces a further 30 days in detention after prosecutors in Romania requested an extension for their investigation.
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Police storm Bucharest sewers in anti-drug raid
Police raid the sewers beneath Romania’s capital Bucharest, questioning dozens of people about a suspected drug trafficking ring.
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The death metal drummer saving Romania’s addicts from HIV
Addicts in Bucharest shoot up as many as 30 times a day. Paraic O’Brien went to meet the death metal drummer who is trying to stem Romania’s drugs and HIV epidemic.
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At home with the ‘king of the Roma gypsies’
Dorin Cioaba became king of the gypsies when his father died two years ago. Paraic OBrien meets the man who says Roma involved in crime in the UK should be deported.
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Channel 4 News RTS award for Romanian tunnel film
Channel 4 News and Ecostorm win the Royal Television Society’s independent award for a “remarkable” film about the world of Bucharest’s homeless underground society.
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Russian Chechnya: Grozny rocked in overnight gun attack
A fierce shootout broke out overnight on Wednesday in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Rebels stormed the city firing from cars in a deadly attack that is thought to have killed more than 10 people.
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Why is net migration rising?
New figures show 260,000 more people came into the UK than left in the year up to June 2014, shattering David Cameron’s pledge to reduce the numbers to under 100,000. So what is the problem?
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Channel 4 News wins two journalism awards
Channel 4 News has scooped two prizes for its journalism at the Political Studies Association and Foreign Press Association awards.
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Channel 4 News wins Amnesty International Media Award
Channel 4 News has won an Amnesty International Media Award for its investigation into the world of Bucharest’s homeless underground society.
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Journey to the heart of Romania’s sex industry
Romania is one of the top countries of origin for people being trafficked for sex into the UK. Paraic O’Brien meets one of the pimps – “lover boys” – who are the lynchpin of Romania’s sex industry.
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Behind the scenes: Paraic O’Brien returns to Romania
Catalina was one of hundreds of drug addicts, stricken by Aids and living in tunnels under Bucharest. Not long after meeting Paraic O’Brien, she died. Here he talks through the photos of her funeral.
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Is death the only escape from life in Romania’s tunnels?
Catalina was one of the main characters in our film about life in Bucharest’s tunnels. After the film was shown, she died from Aids-related heart failure. Channel 4 News returned for her funeral.
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Catalina ‘wanted to die with family in the tunnels’
Cathy Newman interviews Paraic O’Brien about Catalina and how she told social workers that her dying wish was to die in the tunnels with “her family”.
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For Catalina, a life lost in Bucharest’s tunnels – preview
Our film from Bucharest’s tunnels exposed the hell of hundreds of drug-addicted men, women and children. Catalina, who appears in the film, died recently. Paraic O’Brien went back for her funeral.
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Beneath the streets of Romania’s capital, a living hell
Deep under the streets of Bucharest – in Europe, in the 21st century – there is a network of tunnels and sewers that is home to hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse HIV and TB.