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/ 21 June 2006

‘Killers enjoy 100% immunity’

Guy Delva’s family do not like travelling in the same car as him. They worry that one of the many enemies that Haiti’s high-profile reporter has made in the course of a 20-year career may choose the moment to exact a violent revenge against a man who receives regular death threats. In countries such as Haiti, Colombia and the Philippines, journalists face threats and violence on a daily basis

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/ 15 May 2006

South America under pink tide

The ”Chávez effect”, which started when Hugo Chávez was elected as Venezuelan president in 1998, has made waves across the continent, with the ”pink tide” now lapping as far as Mexico to the north and Brazil to the south. Chávez has been a key player in establishing a network of leftist politicians in the region who can give each other moral and economic support.

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/ 10 March 2006

Out of sight, out of mind

More than 20-million people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of famine, in conditions the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) described recently as the worst in his experience. James Morris, executive director of the WFP, has warned the international community that millions of people in Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Tanzania are now at risk because of drought.

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/ 14 February 2006

Abu Hamza’s arsenal of hate

With controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for soliciting to murder and race hate offences, British police have revealed to the public what they discovered when they raided his Finsbury Park mosque. Suspicion about terrorist involvement swirled around Hamza and the north London mosque for years.

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/ 13 December 2005

Where the rich hide their cash

Five trillion dollars has been corruptly removed from the world’s poorest countries and lodged permanently in the world’s richest countries. That is the ”conservative estimate” of a leading United States businessman and enthusiast for capitalism who has just completed a major study of how wealthy individuals and unscrupulous governments are using the world’s banking systems in ways that spread poverty.

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/ 2 September 2005

Why city’s defences were down

The Louisiana coastline may have been so badly damaged by the hurricane because man-made engineering of the delta has led to erosion of natural defences, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The engineering of the past 100 years has also disturbed natural barriers which traditionally prevented storm surges and protected against hurricanes, says the society.

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/ 18 August 2005

Deadly bungle

The Brazilian shot dead by police on a tube train in mistake for a suicide bomber had already been overpowered by a surveillance officer before he was killed, according to secret documents revealed this week. It also emerged in the leaked documents that early allegations that he was running from police at the time of the shooting were untrue.

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/ 21 April 2005

Rap in English lessons

The words of Tupac Shakur and Big Rube have joined those of F Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck in English classes in one the toughest areas of Los Angeles. Students on the verge of dropping out have been encouraged to stay by classes that allow them to analyse and criticise the lyrics of their favourite […]

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