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A alternative travel guide for Israel and Palestine has been launched, including visits to refugee camps, Israel's Separation Wall and the sites of house demolitions.

British aid agencies have hit out at a clamp down by Mugabe’s ruling ZANU PF party on Zimbabwean church groups carrying out human rights work.