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"Dance," the policeman instructed. The girls in front of him, naked from the waist up, obeyed. A tourist's camera panned round to another young woman, also naked and awkwardly holding a bag of grain in front of her. "Dance for me," the policeman commanded. The young woman giggled, looked shy and hopped from foot to foot. The camera swung back to the others who clapped, swayed and jumped. This kind of video is the trophy tourists dream of when they set off into the jungles of the Andaman Islands "on safari". The beauty of the forest functions merely as a backdrop. The goal of the trip is to seek out the Jarawa, a reclusive tribe only recently contacted, which is taking the first tentative steps towards a relationship with the outside world.
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In this cat-and-mouse war, the sniper is king MARK Harvey was the first of the snipers to react, dropping to his knee and fixing the man carrying the RPG in his sights, one shot, a moving target, the man dropping like a stone, dead before he hit the ground.
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THE official mascots for the London Olympics are made in a Chinese sweatshop which pays workers just 18p per cuddly toy. |
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FASHION chain Monsoon, named Britain's most ethical trader, is using Third World suppliers who paid workers just 12p an hour. A News of the World investigation reveals some factories making garments for the company - slogan "Living our values and ethics since 1973" - employing children and one even using kids under nine. |
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VULNERABLE children as young as 13 are being used as human guinea pigs by firms testing drugs for use in the UK, a People investigation reveals. |
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Aarti is stumbling across the fields, tears streaming down her face. Every now and again, she turns to look back over her shoulder, terrified that she is being followed. The man had shown her a gun, threatened her. She knew if they caught her that her life would be in great danger. She started to cry again. It was the third time her mother had sold her to a stranger. All to keep her away from Sanjay, the boy she loved, the boy she had first seen on the rooftop of the neighbouring house in the city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, that most famous monument to love. The boy who was from the wrong caste, the boy her mother would never let her marry. Aarti reaches the road, hails a rickshaw, finds a phone and calls Sanjay. He calls the Love Commandos. |
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An investigation into the conditions of Chinese workers has revealed the shocking human cost of producing the must-have Apple iPhones and iPads that are now ubiquitous in the west. |
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'The blast left the soldier on his back, staring at the mess of his leg' STRUGGLING TO sit up, Frederic Couture surveyed his torn trouser leg and the bloodied strips of flesh which were all that remained of his foot. A landmine had exploded, blowing the rest of it away. "I'm 21-years-old and I've lost my foot,'' he cried. "What am I going to do now?' |
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NEHAL Sonawane sits on the bed of the neat little middle class house in the Indian city of Pune, waiting anxiously for news from England of investigation into the racist murder of her little brother Anuj. |
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The strange death of Shehla Masood For many of her 38 years, Shehla Masood had campaigned tirelessly against corruption. Glamorous and combative, she had embraced India's Right to Information Act with gusto, rattling out applications in all directions, exposing wrongdoing at the highest levels of Madhya Pradesh state where she lived, upsetting many powerful people with a great deal to lose. In recent months, she had turned her attention to mining conglomerate Rio Tinto's plans to extract 37 million tonnes of diamond-bearing ore from land in one of the finest strands of teak forest in the country. Then, on 16 August, Shehla was found dead in her car outside her home in a prosperous area of Bhopal, with a single gunshot to her neck. |
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Disney factory faces probe into sweatshop suicide claims Disney's best-selling Cars toys are being made in a factory in China that uses child labour and forces staff to do three times the amount of overtime allowed by law, according to an investigation. One worker reportedly killed herself after being repeatedly shouted at by bosses. |
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One family's anguish amid India's child abduction epidemic It happens all of a sudden. One moment Anil Lakhotia is talking, the next his face is buried in his hands and his shoulders are shaking. He is lost in his own world of pain, a world that began when his young son was kidnapped and murdered in January 2009. The silence grows heavier. "I used to try to scare him, to make him laugh," he says, struggling to find the words. He looks around, a grown man helpless, and the tears roll down his face. "I can't imagine how scared he was when it happened to him and I was not there for him. Everyone wants to protect their child, but we were helpless." |
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Wills and Kate flew home from their Indian Ocean honeymoon yesterday... after being presented with the world’s most erotic fruit. |
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The sisters who took on the IRA and won THE men's toilet in Magennis's bar in central Belfast is not a large room. There is a small sink to the right of the door on the way in, a single stall to the rear of the room containing a WC, and a stainless steel trough on the same wall as the sink, with room for two people. There are a couple of adverts on the wall above the trough; below it is the obligatory puddle of urine on the floor. In the chipped brown varnish on the back of the door, the initials PIRA - standing for Provisional Irish Republican Army - have been scratched.
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MUCH of Britain's promised £1billion aid to India will be administered through a political system mired in corruption, a Sun investigation has discovered. |
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Child victims of the battle to end a bloody civil war LYING howling on a torn mattress, in a cot by a window overlooking the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, the wounded toddler was a pitiful sight. |
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For his 50 million followers, Sai Baba is a profound spiritual leader and guru. But for hundreds of defectors he’s at best a cheat and a liar, and at worst a sexual deviant who preys on the young men who worship him.
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'We want to work in Hollywood - but God still hasn't fulfilled our dreams' It is raining, the water dripping from roofs of tin and plastic into the pale grey ooze of the drain running down the narrow lane between the shanties that make up Bombay’s Garib Nagar slum. Rubina Ali, Slumdog Millionaire starlet and precocious 10-year-old, is skipping from one concrete slab to another, trying to avoid the stinking puddles and the filth strewn all around. |
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With Christmas three weeks away, an undercover investigation has revealed the bleak realities of life in Chinese toy factories serving a market worth £2.8bn a year in the UK alone. |
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Gethin
Chamberlain is a photojournalist
covering South Asia for The Observer. He also writes for a number of
other newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Marie Claire,
Sunday Mirror, The People, South China Morning Post, Grazia and The
National. Based in India, he previously worked as a foreign
correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph and as The Scotsman's chief
reporter. He can be contacted at 
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