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Syria / United States / World

A president guided by television news and emotional whims

Published by The ipaper (10th April, 2017) Even in the whirlwind world of Donald Trump, last week’s events were mind-blowing. It began with the 45th president of the […]

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China / North Korea / South Korea / United States / World

So could North Korea’s cruel regime be next on the hit list?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th April, 2017) When Donald Trump sat down to dinner with China’s Xi Jinping in his garish golden palace of Mar-a-Lago in Florida […]

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China / North Korea / United States / World

Donald Trump’s shock tactics on North Korea might just work

Published by The Guardian (3rd April, 2017) Song Byeok used to paint propaganda pictures for North Korea’s dictators. But when famine struck, his family was starving like millions […]

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Aid / Europe / European Union / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World

A disturbing new low for foreign aid

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th March, 2017) Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid into Palestinian schools named after mass murderers and Islamist militants, which openly […]

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Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World

Now open: the West Banksy

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th March, 2017) The opening of a hotel by elusive graffiti artist Banksy in the shadow of the controversial concrete and barbed wire […]

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North Korea / World

The chilling rationality of North Korea’s vile regime

Published by The i paper (27th February, 2017) The murder of Kim Jong-nam was brutal and brazen, caught by security cameras as assassins attacked him with lethal toxins […]

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North Korea / South Korea / World

Kim’s kill list and ‘Enemy Zero’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th February, 2017) The announcement on North Korean state radio could not have been more blood curdling. They decreed that Park Sang-hak, a fugitive from Kim […]

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United States / World

Even populist politicians need to build bridges

Published by The i paper (20th February, 2017) Donald Trump can be accused of many things, but certainly not lack of ambition. The 45th president of the United […]

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United States / World

Dangerous delusions of The Donald

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th February, 2017) How much has Russia’s malevolent President Vladimir Putin influenced Donald Trump? For months this frightening suggestion has rattled around […]

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Syria / World

Assad’s 21st century holocaust

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) Every day, the bodies were delivered to the hospital: battered beyond belief and hideously scarred from months of the […]

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Politics / United States / World

The real cost of ‘Global Britain’

Published by The i paper (30th January, 2017) It is two decades since a newly-elected Labour government, riding a wave of heartfelt hope, proclaimed Britain would have an […]

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Europe / United States

The new dawn of old nationalism

Published by The i paper (23rd January, 2017) On Friday morning, as the world prepared to see a former reality television star sworn in to office as the […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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