deported
to Jordan because of the risk that evidence obtained through torture would be used against him. Here's Rob Broomby.
It is the latest episode in a saga of cat and mouse. The Islamist cleric Abu Qatada was first arrested in 2002 and held until 2005 when detentions without charge were overturned. He was monitored and re-arrested within months, pending deportation, but that process has been slow. Now he's to be freed again in a matter of days. The Home Office disagreed with the decision saying that Abu Qatada was a dangerous man who posed a real threat to security and that he should remain in detention.
Brazil has awarded contracts worth billions of dollars to upgrade three of its main airports. The concessions were awarded to major Brazilian companies in association with foreign contractors in an auction in Sao Paulo. Here's Paulo Cabral.
Public sector trade unions protested on the streets of central Sao Paulo against the auction that privatised important airports after decades of state control. In addition to the payments to the government, the new operators have committed to investments in excess of $1bn to
revamp
and expand the airports in time for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
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President Obama has signed an executive order tightening sanctions on Iranian assets under US control. The Treasury department said the new sanctions would affect the assets held in the US of all Iranian ministries and state-owned companies and institutions, including the central bank that deals with Iran's vital oil revenues. The US has