Village 5 January 2006

British Foreign Office documents reveal US and UK complicity in torture and raise further questions on the use of Shannon by the CIA. By David Shanks.

The former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has released documents which show US and UK complicity in the torture of terror suspects in Uzbekistan. The documents have not been published officially in the UK because of restrictions under the Official Secrets Act.

The Monica Leech case against the Irish Independent may turn out to be a landmark case in the law of libel.

A 'Middle East federation' made up of Israel and its neighbours may be one way around the Palestinian crisis, Dr Jeff Halper tells David Shanks in the West Bank, because a sovereign Palestinian state is now not attainable. Photographs by David McKenna

The world's newest country is under foreign occupation once again. David Shanks, who reported from Timor before and since independence, explains the origins of the latest crisis

British Foreign Office documents reveal US and UK complicity in torture and raise further questions on the use of Shannon by the CIA. By David Shanks

America's war on drugs in South America is just as unsuccessful as its current war on terror. David Shanks reviews Chemical Warfare in Colombia

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Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party frowns on tourism to Burma, but provides guides for fact-finding missions. David Shanks talks to a groups of exiled activists

As Haiti prepares for elections, an exiled activist tells David Shanks why he thinks the UN mission in his country amounts to a 'new colonial occupation', one which oversees a security situation worse than under the infamous Duvalier dictatorship