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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper (13th October, 2025)]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (5th January, 2024) Bondo is a scattered cluster of villages in a remote region of Malawi near the border with Mozambique. It sits in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>UK charity given £132m in foreign aid &#8216;provided prostitutes for guests&#8217; at functions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th May, 2019) A major British charity handed huge sums in foreign aid by the Government is alleged to have overseen the hiring [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (28th February 2019) For little more than a decade Stacey Dooley has made all the right steps, moving effortlessly from flogging make-up at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Boss of fraud scandal charity bankrolled by £132million in British aid sent &#8216;witch porn&#8217; to female worker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th January, 2019) A major UK charity has failed to remove from office a senior director accused of bullying whistleblowers, corruption and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd September, 2018) Theresa May’s robotic dancing made some people laugh. But the Maybot was not the biggest joke about the Prime [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by CapX (24th March, 2017) So here we go again: Red Nose Day has arrived with japes, high jinks and silly stunts taking place across the land. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (20th March, 2017) A couple of nights ago I was woken by a giraffe. First I heard crashing sounds as it strode through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th March, 2017) Emmanuel Ayapar is three years old and can no longer walk. The flesh on his legs, which dangle from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Human rights, hypocrisy and a humanitarian summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 22:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper (23rd March, 2016) Four years ago United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon announced his idea for a giant summit to discuss the stumbling response systems [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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