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Sep 24 2007 3:39PM
The great Iraq refugee scandal

As if Iraq and the region didnt have enough crippling problems, another one is the massive crisis around refugees . Two million people have fled the shocking violence in Iraq. Most have gone into Jordan and Syria and are scraping by as...

Sep 21 2007 2:48PM
Summit to think about

Ive been impressed by the series of News Specials on ITV News this week, using undercover filming in Zimbabwe to show us the deepening crisis there. You can watch all these, and an interview with Gordon Brown, online. ITVs reports have...

Sep 20 2007 4:51PM
There's money to be made

Though theyre called honour killings, theyre actually plain murders, and the latest high-profile example of one these ghoulish killings to preserve family honour or good name is the case of Surjit Athwal . She disappeared in 1998 after...

Sep 19 2007 2:20PM
Tear gas and electric shocks just for expressing a view

Burma is rarely out of the news due to the extreme savagery of a military government which presides over mass political imprisonment, forced labour and torture . But the images of saffron robe-clad monks facing teargas and warning...

Sep 18 2007 4:51PM
Sleeping more soundly

Brilliant news in late last night, too late for todays British newspapers Scotsman Kenny Richey is to be moved off death row in Ohio and into a regular county jail. This is an enormous triumph for those who have campaigned on Mr...