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/ 31 October 2003
A controversial scheme led by the oil giant BP to build a huge, strategically important pipeline is about to win crucial backing, according to a leaked document.
The World Bank is due to approve a -million loan this week for a consortium to build an underground pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea to the Turkish port of Ceyhan via Georgia.
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/ 10 September 2003
UK Ministry of Defence experts have made at least 10 trips to Bogota in the past three years to advise the Colombian government on counter-terrorism tactics, the department has revealed. The programme of military aid demonstrates how closely the UK government is involved in supporting the war against Marxist rebels.
A 24-year-old British journalist shot dead in Baghdad over the weekend was a relative novice who had travelled to Iraq to fulfil an ambition to work as a war reporter.
A British campaign group called on governments last week to clamp down on big oil companies, as it provided evidence of the damaging impact of the industry on the global economy.
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/ 4 February 2003
By day Lazoghly Square, in Cairo, is a fume-filled circus of honking taxis and frustrated drivers. By night, the heavily guarded entrance to the Ministry of the Interior is one of the most feared addresses in Egypt. Here detainees are routinely tortured.
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/ 13 November 2002
To enter the shrine of St George, pilgrims must remove their shoes — or ”shose” as the sign describes them. Rugs cover the stone floor. The impression is of being inside a mosque.
A fresh exodus of Afghan refugees could be triggered as early as next month if the United Nations agency assisting in their resettlement runs out of funds and is forced to suspend its aid programme, Western donor nations are being warned.
The Guardian‘s correspondent in Zimbabwe, Andrew Meldrum, was put on trial in Harare on Wednesday accused of publishing a false story in a test case for the state’s restrictive media laws. If convicted he could face up to two years in prison.
THE Guardian‘s correspondent in Zimbabwe, Andrew Meldrum, was arrested in Harare on Wednesday for writing a story that allegedly breached the government’s punitive media laws.