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In Bangladesh, owner under scrutiny in deadly collapse
More than a thousand people died because of one man - as an official inquiry into last month's garment factory collapse in Bangladesh blamed the owner for violating building codes. Many of the victims are now seeking compensation. But some workers might not receive a penny. It's been reported that their ID cards were confiscated when they got their final pay packets.  ITV’s Jonathan Rugman reports.

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  Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroads
Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts. See images from this new era.

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  Pakistan: A nation in turmoil
Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.

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  After the raid: Inside bin Laden's compound
U.S. forces found and killed the al-Qaida leader in the affluent Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he had been living in a large compound.

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Image: Afghan National Army soldier Mirza Mirzali, a Pashtun from Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan
  Soldiers of the Afghan National Army
In southern Afghanistan, the focus of the U.S. war effort, nearly all the Afghan soldiers are foreigners too. Photographer Kevin Frayer shows these soldiers in a series of portraits.

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  Scars of war: Mine victims
Land mines are exacting a terrible toll in Afghanistan -- even years after some devices were planted. Meet some of the people whose lives have been shattered in an instant.

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  Indian social activist Anna Hazare
Click to view pictures of the anti-corruption movement spreading through India.

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