Britons secretly kept in postwar French camps
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The government of Charles de Gaulle held hundreds of foreigners, including at least three Britons, in an internment camp near Toulouse for up to four years after the second world war, according to secret documents.
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Two French reporters feared to have been taken hostage two days ago, as well as a US newsman and a British freelance who suffered the same fate last week, all stayed in the same eerie Baghdad hotel.
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Three British residents held at the US GuantÃ¡namo Bay detention facility in Cuba are on their way back to the UK, police say
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Without security, a generation may remain trapped in congested camps, afraid to return to their homes.
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German spies hid secret messages in   drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to   outwit Allied censors during World War Two, according to   British security service files released on Monday.
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At times, they feared for their lives. They spent many days with blindfolds pressed against their eyes. Their Iraqi captors were convinced they were spies or proselytizers of Catholicism.
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A total of 11 suspected Islamic militants have been detained in Paris this week by intelligence agents who believe they have foiled an operation to send volunteers to fight against the US army in Iraq, officials said.
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Relatives of foreigners who outstay their visas could face imprisonment, under plans put to the Tories.
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Britain regarded the 40-year imprisonment of one-time leading Nazi Rudolf Hess as a "charade" but knew it would never be able to convince the Soviet Union to set him free, newly declassified documents show.
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The identity of several World War II double agents is revealed through papers released to the National Archives by MI5.
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New Labour's war on the Kurds Early morning on September 5 security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook immigration detention centre in west London.Comment
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Millions of Britons have a guilty secret. They are spending their spare hours immersed in an underground world of LA gangs and gun-ridden ghettos.
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The CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate key terror suspects, shackling and handcuffing inmates, keeping some naked for weeks and reducing contact with the outer world to masked and silent guards, a European investigator said Friday.
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There was little bread and barely any butter. Without coal, electricity or gas, Parisians were cooking meals on camp fires in the streets. By the summer of 1944, the French capital &#151; under the Nazi boot for four years &#151; was hungry, exhausted and seething with revenge.
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Four Britons who were detained on the war-torn Somalian-Kenyan border three weeks ago have returned to the UK and were immediately held under the Terrorism Act.Comment
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British spies during World War II were frustrated by the lack of information-sharing with the FBI and feared Nazi agents could infiltrate Britain through the United States, newly declassified documents reveal.
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The Vatican secretly issued instructions to the Catholic church in France not to return Jewish children to their families after the second world war, it emerged yesterday.