A Norwegian prison aims to save the environment and prepare its inmates for life after incarceration. BBC News, September 2007
Alexander’s Gulf outpost uncovered
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Archaeologists set their sights on the Kuwaiti island of Failaka, where a settlement built by a general from Alexander the Great’s army awaits excavation. BBC News, August 2007
Guantanamo refugee rues asylum deal
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An Algerian doctor joins the small list of former Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been transferred to Albania. “Abu Mohammed” is trapped in a legal limbo that prevents him from being reunited with the family he last saw in 2001. Report from Tirana for BBC News, May 2007
Albanian fix for Guantanamo dilemma
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An investigation into the US policy of arranging asylum in Albania for former Guantanamo Bay detainees. The men were forbidden under American law from being repatriated to their countries on account of the risk that they would be mistreated there. Impoverished Albania stepped in to accommodate them. I nicknamed this practice, “extraordinary rehabilitation”. Report from Tirana for BBC News, January 2007
Guantanamo Uighurs’ strange odyssey
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The extraordinary tale of a group of Uighurs from western China who were captured in Afghanistan, imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, and resettled in Albania. I tracked the men down while on holiday in the Balkans. Report from Tirana for BBC News, January 2007
The fortress versus the festival
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Staged in a historic fortress above the Danube, Exit festival holds clues to Serbia’s future as well as its past. Report from Novi Sad for BBC News, July 2006
Balkan festival bangs on Brussels’ door
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For the generation growing up after the Balkan conflict, Serbia’s Exit festival helps highlight the inequity of visa restrictions imposed by Western European nations. Report from Novi Sad for BBC News, July 2006
Festival helps Serbia exit the past
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By uniting thousands of foreigners and Serbs for an annual party, the Exit music festival is also steering the Balkans away from the legacy of conflict. Report from Novi Sad for BBC News, July 2006
Bosnian Serbs sullen and defiant
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In the snowy hills above Sarajevo, Bosnian Serbs feel they have been unfairly scapegoated over the Balkan conflict. Report from Pale for BBC News, March 2006
Sarajevo massacre survivor speaks
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Interview from Sarajevo with Esad Pozder – market trader and witness to a mortar attack that killed more than 60 people. BBC News, March 2006
Sarajevo finds love after the war
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Ten years after the siege of Sarajevo was lifted, young couples in the city are once again breaching the ethnic and religious divide. Report for BBC News, February 2006
Mass grave yields Mayan secrets
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An archaeologist in the Guatemalan jungle hopes that a vast burial site, apparently containing the victims of an ancient massacre, will shed some light on the mysterious demise of the Maya civilisation. BBC News, November 2005
Women bombers break new ground
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Insurgents from Iraq to Chechnya and Kashmir have been recruiting women as suicide bombers. But the jihadists are not the first armed groups to do so – and the practice could prove counter-productive. Analysis for BBC News, November 2005
Tales of loss from Kashmir’s quake city
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Survivors from the earthquake reach the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, bringing stories of grief and endurance from remote Himalayan villages. Report from Muzaffarabad for BBC News, November 2005
Laptop link-up: Quake aftermath
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Survivors of an earthquake in Pakistani-administered Kashmir field questions from a global audience, via the BBC News website. Report from Muzaffarabad, November 2005
Laptop link-up: Muzaffarabad’s plight
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A report from Pakistani-administered Kashmir on the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake. I visited the region as part of a BBC effort to connect schoolchildren in Pakistan with a global audience – including their counterparts in the British city of Bradford. BBC News, November 2005
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