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Scores of Sri Lankans, due to have been deported from the UK on a government charter flight on Thursday afternoon, have had their removal orders overturned by high court judges.

With the systematic slaughter of dozens of non-combatants, the evidence on the ground in the Syrian town of Houla is of a war crime. But Syria's government is saying it had no hand in the massacre.

As Greece implodes under tough fiscal reform Ireland, the IMF's 'austerity poster boy', votes on belt-tightening measures in a referendum too close to call.

Channel 4 News challenges the Syrian ambassador before the UN Human Rights Council's special session probing the Houla massacre after 13 more bodies are discovered.

As Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben de Pear says his reign of terror in Liberia should not be forgotten.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi receives a rapturous reception in Thailand by crowds celebrating her first trip outside Myanmar in nearly a quarter of a century.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been jailed at the UN-backed special court for Sierra Leone in the Hague for aiding and abetting war crimes during Sierra Leone's civil war.