International		Cuttings
'They're killing us': world's most endangered tribe cries for help   Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil's rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations of using gunmen to wipe out the Awá, a tribe of just 355. Survival International, with backing from Colin Firth, is campaigning to stop what a judge referred to as 'genocide'
India	Iraq	Afghanistan	Sri Lanka
Featured		Asia
The Red Brigade: empowering women of India to fight back THE young women stride out along the dusty street that cuts through the Madiyav slum. Their bright red uniforms glow in the late afternoon sun and there is no mistaking their air of confidence. Since the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi in December, women in India have formed the Red Brigade, a civilian group that aims to empower females to take back the streets.			Shame of the human safaris   “DANCE,” the policeman says. The girls, naked from the waist up, jiggle for him. The camera, held by a tourist, pans round to another young woman, naked but for a bag of some sort of yellow grain, held awkwardly in front of her groin. “Dance for me,” the policeman commands.
.		Africa
Last days of the tiger   WHEN he found the bull the tiger had killed, Mangya Moghiya set to work quickly. The wily old poacher knew the tiger would be back soon, and he wished to stack the odds in his favour.			India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste   Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it appears that India would rather the world did not see, the victims of a scandal with potential implications far beyond the country's borders.
.		Europe
Suicide and suffering grip Europe's nation of orphans   THE HEADMASTER glanced around the classroom. "Hands up, those of you with parents who are working abroad,'' he told them. A forest of arms shot up; out of a class of 21 pupils at the school in Liteni in northern Romania, only three children kept their hands on the desks.			Saudi Arabia's treatment of foreign workers under fire after beheading of Sri Lankan maid   More than 45 foreign maids are facing execution on death row in Saudi Arabia, the Observer has learned, amid growing international outrage at the treatment of migrant workers. The startling figure emerged after Saudi Arabia beheaded a 24-year-old Sri Lankan domestic worker, Rizana Nafeek, in the face of appeals for clemency from around the world.
.		Middle East
Caught in the middle as Amarah explodes   "I want this moving now, now, now," he screamed, and there was another burst of gunfire overhead. Then they were there, the Warriors, with their 30mm cannon and chain guns, appearing over the crest of the bridge, just as the cavalry should.			Human safaris may be banned, but still tourists flock to Andaman Islands   "Jarawa!" The cry goes up from the front of the bus and, in an instant, the tourists are on their feet, craning their necks to see a small boy clutching a short spear.
.		Americas
. They wait clutching cards they hope will be their bus ticket to escape from this terrible place   Koubra Hassabou watches the buses go; she and her family had packed their things away, but there was no place for them today. She sits in the sand, her face blank. "What are we to do?" she asks. "If we had donkeys we could go ourselves but we have no donkeys. We put a lot of luggage on our donkeys and they died here."			Apple's Chinese workers treated 'inhumanely, like machines'   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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